The intermission of Action, and a stop in Appetite, and Thought, are a kind of Death upon the Faculties for the present, and yet there is no harm in't. Go on now to the different Periods of Life : And here you'l find Infancy, Youth, Manhood , and Old-age treading upon the Heels of each other, and the First as it were cut down, and dispatch'd by the latter. And where lies the Damage , and Terror of all this? Proceed to your Grandfathers time, and to that of your Father, and Mother, and run over as much Ground, in Changes, Decay, and Death as you please; And when you have done, ask your self what great Grievance there is in the Contemplation : And when you find nothing extraordinary, you may conclude that Ending, and Alteration will sit no harder upon your Life, than upon those before you.