of the Whole. Tis true, their Operations are More or Leſs Noble, but the Mechanical Faculties can no more be Spar'd than the Intellectual, and thoſe that Serve in Council under an Appearance of Reſt, are yet as Buſie, and as Neceſſary, in their Functions. as thoſe that are Actually and Visibly in Motion. Here's a Caution in fine, to the Members, to have a care how they withdraw themſelves from their Duties, till it ſhall be too late for their Superiors to make uſe of them.
There is fo Near an Analogy betwixt the State of a Body Natural, and and Politique, that the Neceſſity of Government and Obedience cannot be better Repreſented. The Motions of a Popular Faction are ſo Violent, and Unreaſonable, that neither Philoſophy, Prudence, Experience, nay, nor the Holy Writ it ſelf, has the Power (ordinarily ſpeaking) to Work upon them. If People would allow themſelves Time for Thought, and Conſideration, they would find that the Conſervation of the Body depends upon the Proper Uſe and Service of the Several Parts; and that the Intereſt of Every Diſtinct Member of it, is wrapt up in the Support, and Maintenance of the whole, which obliges them all to Labour in their Reſpective Offices and Functions for the Common Good. There are Degrees of Dignity (no doubt on't) in Both Caſes, and One Part is to be Subſervient to Another, in the Order of Civil Policy, as well as in the Frame of a Man's Body: ſo that they are mightily out of the way, that take Eating and Drinking, and Un-Eating, and Un-Drinking, in a courſe of Viciſſitude, with other Offices of Nature that are common to Beads with Men, to be the Great Bus'neſs of Mankind, without any further Regard to the Faculties, and Duties of our Reaſonable Being: For Every Member has its Proper, and Reſpective Function Aſſigned it, and not a Finger ſuffers but the Whole Feels on't.
Fab. LI.
An Ape and a Fox.
AN Ape that found Many Inconveniences by going Bare-Arſe, went to a Fox that had a Well-ſpread, Buſhy Tayle, and begg'd of him only a little piece on't to Cover his Nakedneſs: For (ſays he) you have enough for Both, and what needs more than you have Occaſion for? Well, John (ſays the Fox) be it More, or be it Leſs, you get not one ſingle Hair on't; for I would have ye know, Sirrah, that the Tayle of a Fox was never made for the Buttocks of an Ape.
The Moral.
