HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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meats." For, as Tertullian againft the Gnofticks rays,
—" That part of medicine in which lancet, cauteries,
burning (and we may add ftripes) are concerned, is a
kind of barbarity ; and yet to be cut, burnt, extended,
bitten, are not, therefore, evils, becaufe they bring
ufeful pains, nor are they to be forebore becaufe they
make us uneafy, but becaufe they neceffarily make us
uneafy they are to be ufed." The good effeas excufe
the horror of the application ; for things are not to be
efteemed good or evil by pain or pleafure, but by their
ufefulnefs and unufefulnefs. All things, therefore,
ought to be borne with by the direelion of a phyfician,
according to that ancient form or fentence, Go, Li&or,
or flave, bind his hands, beat him, cover his head, and
(all but the laft) hang him upon the tree. This is the
reafon that Martial, book II. ep. 17, among the in-
ftruelions of the barbers reckons whips-
Tonfirix Suburree foucibus fedet primis,
Cruenta pendent qua flagella tortorum.
The fuburb-barbers at the city's end,
Where flogging whips, in bloody whips depend.
For their whips were roughened and hardened, by
twifting