 the Finders of Gold. The Method used in both these Searches
after Truth and after Gold, being, indeed, one and the same; viz. the searching,
rummaging, and examining into a nasty Place; indeed, in the former Instances,
into the nastiest of all Places, A BAD MIND.
    But though, in this Particular, and perhaps in their Success, the
Truth-finder, and the Gold-finder, may very properly be compared together; yet
in Modesty, surely, there can be no Comparison between the two; for who ever
heard of a Gold-finder that had the Impudence or Folly to assert, from the ill
Success of his Search, that there was no such thing as Gold in the World?
Whereas the Truth-finder, having raked out that Jakes his own Mind, and being
there capable of tracing no Ray of Divinity, nor any thing virtuous, or good, or
lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and logically concludes, that no such
things exist in the whole Creation.
    To avoid, however, all Contention, if possible, with these Philosophers, if
they will be called so; and to shew our own Disposition to accommodate Matters
peaceably between us, we shall here make them some Concessions, which may
possibly put an End to the Dispute.
    First, we will grant that many Minds, and perhaps those of the Philosophers,
are entirely free from the least Traces of such a Passion.
    Secondly, That what is commonly called Love, namely, the Desire of
satisfying a voracious Appetite with a certain Quantity of delicate white human
Flesh, is by no Means that Passion for which I here contend. This is indeed more
properly Hunger; and as no Glutton is ashamed to apply the Word Love to his
Appetite, and to say he LOVES such and such Dishes; so may the Lover of this
Kind, with equal Propriety say, he HUNGERS after such and such Women.
    Thirdly, I will grant, which I believe will be a most acceptable Concession,
that this Love for which I am an Advocate, though it satisfies itself in a much
more delicate Manner, doth nevertheless seek its own Satisfaction as much as the
grossest of all our Appetites.
    And, Lastly, That this Love when it operates towards one of a different Sex,
is very apt, towards its complete Gratification, to call in the Aid of that
Hunger which I have mentioned above; and which it is so far from abating, that
it heightens all its Delights to a Degree scarce imaginable by those who have
never been susceptible of any other Emotions
