BOOK VII
8. Be not disquieted about the future. If thou must come thither, thou wilt come armed with the same reason which thou appliest now to the present.
9. All things are mutually intertwined,[1] and the tie is sacred, and scarcely anything is alien the one to the other. For all things have been ranged side by side,[2] and together help to order one ordered Universe. For there is both one Universe, made up of all things, and one God immanent in all things, and one Substance, and one Law, one Reason common to all intelligent creatures,[3] and one Truth, if indeed there is also one perfecting of living creatures that have the same origin and share the same reason.
10. A little while and all that is material is lost to sight in the Substance of the Universe,[4] a little while and all Cause is taken back into the Reason of the Universe, a little while and the remembrance of everything is encairned in Eternity.
11. To the rational creature the same act is at once according to nature and according to reason.[5]
12. Upright, or made upright.[6]
13. The principle which obtains where limbs and body unite to form one organism, holds good also for rational things with their separate individualities, constituted as they are to work in conjunction. But the perception of this shall come more home to thee, if thou sayest to thyself, I am a limb of the organized body of rational things. But if [using the letter R] thou sayest thou art but a part,[7] not yet dost thou love mankind from the heart, nor yet does well-doing delight thee for its own sake.[8] Thou
