Things of the same common Quality have a Tendency to their Kind : Earthy Bodies tumble to the Ground, One drop of Moisture runs after another ; And thus Air where 'tis predominant , presses after Air : And nothing but Force, and Violence, can keep these things asunder. Fire likewise mounts , and reaches upwards, to make after its own Element Above : This property gives it a Disposition to propagate it's Species, and joyn other Fires here Below ; And for this reason it catches easily upon all Fuel a little more dry than ordinary ; because here the Qualities opposite to Accension , are weak and disabled. Thus all Beings which partake of the same common Thought, and Understanding, have a natural Instinct for Correspondence with their own Kind: only with this difference, that the higher any thing stands in the Scale of Being , the stronger it is inclin'd to Communication with its own Order , and Distinction. To illustrate the Argument, we find the force of Nature , and Blood , very Active amongst Brute Animals ; As appears by their running together in Herds, and Swarms according to Kind ; by their providing for their Young Ones, and by that Resemblance of Love, and Affection, which is carried on among them. These Animals have a Soul in them , by consequence their Principle of Union is more vigorous than in Stocks, and Stones. To go on to Reasonable Creatures ; And here we may observe Mankind united by publick Counsels, and Common-wealths , by particular Friendships, and Families; And when War has work'd them to the greatest Misunderstanding, They have even then the benefit of Corresponding by Truce, and Articles : Farther to Instance in a higher Order ; the Stars, ⁴ though not Neighbours in Situation, move by Concert. Thus where Things are more Noble, and Nature rises, Sympathy rises too, and Operates at a distance. But here lies the Misery on't : Mankind are strangly unfortunate with the privilege of their Reason ! They are the only Beings which break through the Force of Instinct, and would make the Alliances of Nature signifie nothing. But tho' they run from their Kind , they are catched again in some measure. For you shall sooner see a piece of Earth refuse to lye by its own Element, than find any Man so perfectly unsociable , as not to Correspond with some body or other.