Now, Sir, if I conduct you home again into this warmer and more luxuriant island, where you perceive the spring-tide of our blood and humours runs high------where we have more ambition, and pride, and envy, and lechery, and other whoreson passions upon our hands to govern and subject to reason------the _height_ of our wit, and the _depth_ of our judgment, you see, are exactly proportioned to the _length_ and _breadth_ of our necessities------and accordingly we have them sent down amongst us in such a flowing kind of descent and creditable plenty, that no one thinks he has any cause to complain.
It must however be confessed on this head, that, as our air blows hot and cold--wet and dry, ten times in a day, we have them in no regular and settled way; --so that sometimes for near half a century together, there shall be very little wit or judgment either to be seen or heard of amongst us: ----the small channels of them shall seem quite dried up----then all of a sudden the sluices shall break out, and take a fit of running again like fury----you would think they would never stop: ----and then it is, that in writing, and fighting, and twenty other gallant things, we drive all the world before us.
It is by these observations, and a wary reasoning by analogy in that kind of argumentative process, which _Suidas_ calls _dialectick induction_------that I draw and set up this position as most true and veritable;

Now, Sir, if I conduct you home again into this warmer island, where you perceive the spring-tide of our blood runs high - where we have more ambition, pride, envy, lechery, and other whoreson passions to govern - the height of our wit, and the depth of our judgment, you see, are exactly proportioned to our need - and we have them amongst us in such plenty, that no one thinks he has any cause to complain.
It must however be confessed, that, as our air blows hot and cold, wet and dry, ten times in a day, we have them in no regular and settled way. Sometimes for near half a century together, there shall be very little wit or judgment to be seen or heard of amongst us: the channels of them shall seem quite dried up - then all of a sudden the sluices break out, and run like fury - and then, in writing, and fighting, and twenty other gallant things, we drive all the world before us.
It is by these observations, and a reasoning by analogy which Suidas calls dialectic induction, that I draw this position as most true;
