ABSTRACT
WE know that Nature has armed animals for their protection and defence, some with teeth, some with horns, some with hooves, and others, in their less conspicuous parts, with spittle, stings, urine, and excrement;12but man she has ordained to be weakly, with his wailing and groaning, liable to every sort of affliction, hampered from the very day of his birth, soft, weaponless, and the thrall of reason, as though he were fated to enter an arena and struggle to endure all manner of passions and wrongs.2
