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82 Pup. Are these passions beneficial to us? • Tut. Without doubt, when under proper regulation. They were designed to excite us to moral and pious actions. But if these passions are not under proper discipline, they may lead us to much evil, assi expose us to great injury. “He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city broken down and without walls.” Pup. Ifow is the mind umjteri to the body ? Tut. That surpasses the conception of the wisest philosophers; but it is generally supposed that the brain is the seat of the soul Pujo. As men are dy ang perpetually, is i tiere not some day:ger of the world’s losing all its inhabitants Tut. Though from calculations which have been made, sixty are found to die every Iriinute. yet more than sixty are supposed, also to be born every ininute, or, in the common language of this country, a lack dies and a lack is born daily. For every hundred females born into the world, there are also born one hundred and five males, as more of the latter are supposed to die in early years than the fornier, and many likewise by wars. Pup. Do more men die in populous cities than in the country : - * Twt. Yes, because there the air has not that free circulation which it has in the open country, consequently it is not so pure for breathing: besides, infectious disorders more easily spread their baneful influence, and ...re more readily communicated, when habitations are so contiguous to , each other, and crowded with people. But wherever we live, whether.