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24.25. 25. The Inconvenience of transplanting a Religion from one Country
to another.

It follows hence that there are frequently many inconveniences attending the transplanting a religion from one country to any other.

"The hog," says M. de Boulainvilliers, [38] "must be very scarce in Arabia, where there are almost no woods, and hardly anything fit for the nourishment of these animals; besides, the saltness of the water and food renders the people most susceptible of cutaneous disorders." This local law could not be good in other countries, [39] where the hog is almost a universal, and in some sort a necessary, nourishment.

I shall here make a reflection. Sanctorius has observed that pork transpires but little, [40] and that this kind of meat greatly binders the transpiration of other food; he has found that this diminution amounts to a third. [41] Besides, it is known that the want of transpiration forms or increases the disorders of the skin. The feeding on pork ought rather to be prohibited in climates where the people are subject to these disorders, as in Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, and Libya.

Footnotes

[38]

"Life of Mahomet."

[39]

As in China.

[40]

"Medicina Statica," sect. 3, aphor. 22.

[41]

Ibid., aphor. 23.