are most of them such things as are very general, and may
be comprehended under things merely natural, or naturally
affected and qualified: as stones, wood, figs, vines, olives.
Those that be admired by them that are more moderate and restrained,
are comprehended under things animated: as flocks and herds.
Those that are yet more gentle and curious, their admiration is
commonly confined to reasonable creatures only; not in general as they
are reasonable, but as they are capable of art, or of some craft
and subtile invention: or perchance barely to reasonable creatures;
as they that delight in the possession of many slaves.
But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable
and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else:
and above all things is careful to preserve his own, in the
continual habit and exercise both of reason and sociableness:
and thereby doth co-operate with him, of whose nature he doth
also participate; God.