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What exactly was claimed to be a fact and how do you know it's false?
Um. Really? What do you call primitive life, then? Does it include contemporary medicine, for example?
"This testifies to nothing other than the fact that those who recommend the satisfactions of living in harmony with nature have never had to do it." That "fact" is false, and sets up a straw man in the place of the views and preferences of people who know what they're talking about.
In what sense is traveling with modern equipment, vaccinated and raised in an industrial society,
all of which depends crucially on a vast technological economy and society, 'living in harmony with nature'?
They aren't living in harmony with nature because their brief highly sanitized encounters are structured and make use of countless highly unnatural products & tools, and so that is not a strawman.