scure ; or else perhaps we see them witnout understanding
them. But the divine Majesty is only accessible to the
mind. What this is (without which nothing is) we are not
able to determine: and when we have guessed at some
sparks of it, the greater part lies yet concealed from iis.
How many creatures have we now in this age, that never
were known to us before ! and how many more will the
next age know more than we do ! And many yet will he
still reserved for after-times. The very rites of religion are
at this day a secret, and unknown to many people. Nay,
the very thing that we most eagerly pursue, we are not yei
arrived at ; that is to say, a perfection in wickedness. Vico
IS still upon the improvement: luxury, immodesty, and a
prostitute dissolution of manners, will find still new matter
to work upon. Our men are grown effeminate in their
habits, in their motions, and in their ornaments, even to the
degree of whorishness. There is nobody minds philosophy
but for want of comedy, perhaps, or in foul weather, when
there is nothing else to be done.
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