immersed in snow, an inaction
of the cutaneous capillaries is induced, as is seen from the
paleness of the skin, which is attended with the pain of
coldness. So the pain of hunger is probably produced by the
inaction of the muscular fibres of the stomach from the want
of the stimulus of food.

Thus those, who have used much voluntary exertion in their
early years, and have continued to do so, till the decline of
life commences, if they then lay aside their employment,
whether that of a minister of state, a general of an army, or
a merchant, or manufacturer; they cease to have their
faculties excited into their usual activity, and become
unhappy, I suppose from the too great accumulation of the
sensorial power of volition; which wants the accustomed
stimulus or motive to cause its expenditure.]

"Here laughs Ebriety more fell than arms,
And thins the nations with her fatal charms,
With Gout, and Hydrops groaning in her train,
And cold Debility, and grinning Pain, 80
With harlot's smiles deluded man salutes,
Revenging all his cruelties to brutes!
There the curst spells of Superstition blind,
And fix her fetters on the tortured mind;
She bids in dreams tormenting shapes appear,
With shrieks that shock Imagination's ear,
E'en o'er the grave a deeper shadow flings,
And maddening Conscience darts a thousand stings.

[Footnote: _Here laughs Ebriety_, l. 77.

Saevior armis
Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem.
HORAC.]

[Footnote: _E'en o'er the grave_, l. 87. Many theatric
preachers among the Methodists successfully inculcate the
fear of death and of Hell, and live luxuriously on the folly
of their hearers: those who suffer under this insanity, are
generally most innocent and harmless people, who are then
liable to accuse themselves of the greatest imaginary crimes;
and have so much intellectual cowardice, that they dare not
reason about those things, which they are directed by their
priests to believe. Where this intellectual cowardice is
great, the voice of reason is ineffectual; but that of
ridicule may save many from these mad-making docto