Those Particles of Fire and Air which are lodg'd in your Body, notwithstanding their Tendency to Mount , submit to the Laws of the Universe , stick close to your Constitution , and keep the rest of the Elements Company. Again, the Earthly, and Watry Part in you, tho' they naturally press downwards, are raised above their Level, and stand pois'd in a Foreign Region : Thus the Elements serve the Interest of the World. And tho' they seem to stand bent and uneasie, they keep their Post, till the Signal is given to march off, and separate. And is it not then a scandalous business that your Mind should be the only Deserter, and grow Mutinous about her Station? Especially when her Orders agree with her Constitution, and nothing that's unnatural is enjoyn'd? And yet she won't bear the Conduct of her own Faculties , but runs perfectly Counter to Humanity. For when a Man turns Knave, or Libertine, when he gives way to Fears and Fits of the Spleen, he does as it were run away from himself, and Desert his own Nature : And farther , when his Mind complains of his Fortune, he quits the Station in which Providence has placed him. For Acquiescence , and Piety are no less his Duty, and his Talent too, than Honesty between Man and Man : For these Virtues carry up to the common Interest, and are rather of greater Antiquity, and Value, than Fair Dealing it self. ¹⁷