HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

PREFACE.
herfelf, without having recourfe to fancy, fic7ion, and
ridiculous diabolical enchantments.
That the ufe offrokes and firipes have an eifea upon
the languid organs after our author's manner of ration-
ing; is no wonder at all to the learned, tho' the ignorant
perhaps may be fiartled at the affertion. I crave leave
to fortify our author's obfervations by a very common
.one ?fed among oulfelves. It is the cullom, wizen a
fiallion will not readily cover a mare, to beat him with
/lap von the back, and fo quicken the circulation of
the blood, and flimulate the parts of generation to a
compliance with the purpofr of nature. The effet7 is
plain; and the argument will hold in proportion with
the human fpeci es.
.1 am here tempted to fay fomething of a more danger-
ous and modern improvement on the art of lewdnefs, of
which I know one or two remarkable hillories—and,
fierhaps, when 1 aave finifhed the phyfical rations of its
4ee7s, the world may fee them publifhed. In the mean-
time, the hangmg-lechers are deft red to obferve, that their
prat -lice is no fecret ; and that it is known that fame of
them have lately had very narrow efrapes in the atleri-
ment,