Square talked in a very different Strain. He ſaid, ‘ſuch Accidents as a broken Bone were below the Conſideration of a wiſe Man. That it was abundantly ſufficient to reconcile the Mind to any of theſe Miſchances, to reflect that they are liable to befal the wiſeſt of Mankind, and are undoubtedly for the Good of the whole.’ He ſaid, ‘it was a mere Abuſe of Words, to call thoſe Things Evils, in which there was no moral Unfitneſs; that Pain, which was the worſt Conſequence of ſuch Accidents, was the moſt contemptible thing in the World;’ with more of the like Sentences, extracted out of the Second Book of Tully’s Tuſculan Queſtions, and from the Great Lord Shafteſbury. In pronouncing theſe he was one Day ſo eager, that he unfortunately bit his Tongue; and in ſuch a Manner, that it not only put an End to his Diſcourſe, but created much Emotion in him, and cauſed him to mutter an Oath or two: But what was worſt of all, this Accident gave Thwackum, who was preſent, and who held all ſuch Doctrine to be heatheniſh and atheiſtical, an Opportunity to clap a Judgment on his Back. Now this was done with ſo malicious a Sneer, that it totally unhinged (if I may ſo ſay) the Temper of the Philoſo-pher,
