The truth is that Motion which you attribute to the Earth is a pretty nice Paradox and for my part I 'll frankly tell you That that which hinders me from being of your Opinion is That though you parted yesterday from Paris yet you might have arrived to day in this Country without the Earth's turning For the Sun having drawn you up by the means of your Bottles ought he not to have brought you hither since according to Ptolemy and the Modern Philosophers he marches obliquely as you make the Earth to move And besides what great Probability have you to imagine that the Sun is immoveable when we see it go And what appearance is there that the Earth turns with so great Rapidity when we feel it firm under our Feet Sir replied I to him These are in a manner the Reasons that oblige us to think so In the first place it is consonant to common Sense to think that the Sun is placed in the Center of the Universe seeing all Bodies in nature standing in need of that radical Heat it is fit he should reside in the heart of the Kingdom that he may be in a condition readily to supply the Necessities of every Part and that the Cause of Generations should be placed in the middle of all Bodies that it may act there with greater Equality and Ease After the same manner as Wise Nature hath placed the Genitals in Man the Seeds in the Center of Apples the Kernels in the middle of their Fruits and in the same manner as the Onion under the cover of so many Coats that encompass it preserves that precious Bud from which Millions of others are to have their being for an Apple is in it self a little Universe the Seed hotter than the other parts thereof is its Sun which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe And in the Onion the Germ is the little Sun of that little World which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass Having laid down this then for a ground I say That the Earth standing in need of the Light Heat and Influence of this great Fire it turns round it that it may receive in all parts alike that Virtue which keeps it in Being For it would be as ridiculous to think that that vast luminous Body turned about a point that it has not the least need of as to imagine that when we see a roasted Lark that the Kitchin-fire must have turned round it Else were it the part of the Sun to do that drudgery it would seem that the Physician stood in need of the Patient that the Strong should yield to the Weak the Superior serve the Inferior and that the Ship did not sail about the Land but the Land about the Ship. Now if you cannot easily conceive how so ponderous a Body can move Pray tell me are the Stars and Heavens which in your Opinion are so solid any way lighter Besides it is not so difficult for us who are assured of the Roundness of the Earth to infer its motion from its Figure But why do ye suppose the Heaven to be round seeing you cannot know it and that yet if it hath not this Figure it is impossible it can move I object not to you your Excentricks nor Epicycles which you cannot explain but very confusedly and which are out of doors in my Systeme Let 's reflect only on the natural Causes of that Motion To make good your Hypothesis you are forced to have recourse to Spirits or Intelligences that move and govern your Spheres But for my part without disturbing the repose of the supreme Being who without doubt hath made Nature entirely perfect and whose Wisdom ought so to have compleated her that being perfect in one thing she should not have been defective in another I say that the Beams and Influences of the Sun darting Circularly upon the Earth make it to turn as with a turn of the Hand we make a Globe to move or which is much the same that the Steams which continually evaporate from that side of it which the Sun shines upon being reverberated by the Cold of the middle Region rebound upon it and striking obliquely do of necessity make it whirle about in that manner The Explication of the other Motions is less perplexed still for pray consider a little At these words the Vice-Roy interrupted me I had rather said he you would excuse your self from that trouble for I have read some Books of Gassendus on that subject And hear what one of our Fathers who maintained your Opinion one day answered me Really said he I fancy that the Earth does move not for the Reasons alledged by Copernicus but because Hell-fire being shut up in the Center of the Earth the damned who make a great bustle to avoid its Flames scramble up to the Vault as far as they can from them and so make the Earth to turn as a Turn-spit makes the Wheel go round when he runs about in it We applauded that Thought as being a pure effect of the Zeal of that good Father And then the Vice-Roy told me That he much wondered how the Systeme of Ptolemy being so improbable should have been so universally received Sir said I to him most part of Men who judge of all things by the Senses have suffered themselves to be perswaded by their Eyes and as he who Sails along a Shoar thinks the Ship immoveable and the Land in motion even so Men turning with the Earth round the Sun have thought that it was the Sun that moved about them To this may be added the unsupportable Pride of Mankind who perswade themselves that Nature hath only been made for them as if it were â—ikely that the Sun a vast Body Four â—undred and thirty four times bigger than â—he Earth had only been kindled to ripen â—heir Medlars and plumpen their Cabbage â—or my part I am so far from complying â—ith their Insolence that I believe the Plaâ—…ets are Worlds about the Sun and that â—…e fixed Stars are also Suns which have â—…anets about them that 's to say Worlds which because of their smallness and that their borrowed light cannot reach us are not discernable by Men in this World For in good earnest how can it be imagined that such spacious Globes are no more but vast Desarts and that ours because we live in it hath been framed for the habitation of a dozen of proud Dandyprats How must it be said because the Sun measures our Days and Years that it hath only been made to keep us from running our Heads against the Walls No no if that visible Deity shine upon Man it 's by accident as the King's Flamboy by accident lightens a Porter that walks along the Street But said he to me if as you affirm the fixed Stars be so many Suns it will follow that the World is infinite seeing it is probable that the People of that World which moves about that fixed
there are a Million of things perhaps in the Universe that would require a Million of different Organs in you to understand them For instance I by my Senses know the cause of the Sympathy that is betwixt the Loadstone and the Pole of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea and what becomes of the Animal after Death you cannot reach these high Conceptions but by Faith because they are Secrets above the power of your Intellects no more than a Blind-man can judge of the beauties of a Land-skip the Colours of a Picture or the streaks of a Rain-bow or at best he will fancy them to besomewhat palpable to be like Eating a Sound or a pleasant Smell Even so should I attempt to explain to you what I perceive by the Senses which you want you would represent it to your self as somewhat that may be Heard Seen Felt Smelt or Tasted and yet it is no such thing He was gone on so far in his Discourse when my Juggler perceived that the Company began to be weary of my Gibberish that they understood not and which they took to be an inarticulated Grunting He therefore fell to pulling my Rope afresh to make me leap and skip till the Spectators having had their Belly-fulls of Laughing affirmed that I had almost as much Wit as the Beasts of their Country and so broke up Thus all the comfort I had during the misery of my hard Usage were the visits of this officious Spirit for you may judge what conversation I could have with these that came to see me since besides that they only took me for an Animal in the highest class of the Category of Bruits I neither understood their Language nor they mine For you must know that there are but two Idioms in use in that Country one for the Grandees and another for the People in general That of the great ones is no more but various inarticulate Tones much like to our Musick when the Words are not added to the Air and in reality it is an Invention both very useful and pleasant for when they are weary of talking or disdain to prostitute their Throats to that Office they take either a Lute or some other Instrument whereby they communicate their Thoughts as well as by their Tongue So that sometimes Fifteen or Twenty in a Company will handle a point of Divinity or discuss the difficulties of a Law-suit in the most harmonious Consort that ever tickled the Ear. The second which is used by the Vulgar is performed by a shivering of the Members but not perhaps as you may imagine for some parts of the Body signifie an entire Discourse for example the agitation of a Finger a Hand an Ear a Lip an Arm an Eye a Cheek every one severally will make up an Oration or a Period with all the parts of it Others serve only instead of Words as the knitting of the Brows the several quiverings of the Muscles the turning of the Hands the stamping of the Feet the contorsion of the Arm so that when they speak as their Custom is stark naked their Members being used to gesticulate their Conceptions move so quick that one would not think it to be a Man that spoke but a Body that trembled Every day almost the Spirit came to see me and his rare Conversation made me patiently bear with the rigour of my Captivity At length one morning I saw a Man enter my Cabbin whom I knew not who having a long while licked me gently took me up in his Teeth by the Shoulder and with one of his Paws wherewith he held me up for fear I might hurt my self threw me upon his Back where I found my self so softly seated and so much at my ease that being afflicted to be used like a Beast I had not the least desire of making my escape and besides these Men that go upon all four are much swifter than we seeing the heaviest of them make nothing of running down a Stagg In the mean time I was extreamly troubled that I had no news of my courteous Spirit and the first night we came to our Inn as I was walking in the Court expecting till Supper should be ready a pretty handsome young Man came smiling in my Face and cast his Two Fore-Legs about my Neck After I had a little considered him How said he in French do not you know your Friend then I leave you to judge in what case I was at that time really my surprise was so great that I began to imagine that all the Globe of the Moon all that had befallen me and all that I had seen had only been Enchantment And that Beast-man who was the same that had carried me all day continued to speak to me in this manner You promised me that the good Offices I did you should never be forgotten and yet it seems you have never seen me before but perceiving me still in amaze In fine said he I am that same Demon of Socrates who diverted you during your Imprisonment and who that I may still oblige you took to my self a Body on which I carried you to day But said I interrupting him how can that be seeing that all Day you were of a very long Stature and now you are very short that all day long you had a weak and broken Voice and now you have a clear and vigorous one that in short all day long you were a Grey-headed old Man and are now a brisk young Blade Is it then that whereas in my Country the Progress is from Life to Death Animals here go Retrograde from Death to Life and by growing old become young again So soon as I had spoken to the Prince said he and received orders to bring you to Court I went and found you out where you were and have brought you hither but the Body I acted in was so tired out with the Journey that all its Organs refused me their ordinary Functions so that I enquired the way to the Hospital where being come in I found the Body of a young Man just then expired by a very odd Accident but yet very common in this Country I drew near him pretending to find motion in him still and protesting to those who were present that he was not dead and that what they thought to be the cause of his Death was no more but a bare Lethargy so that without being perceived I put my Mouth to his by which I entred as with a breath Then down dropt my old Carcass and as if I had been that young Man I rose and came to look for you leaving the Spectators crying a Miracle With this they came to call us to Supper and I followed my Guide into a Parlour richly furnished but where I found nothing fit to be eaten No Victuals appearing when I was ready to die of Hunger made me ask him where the Cloath was laid But I could not hear what he answered for at that instant Three or Four young Boys
by a long and powerful Coction he separated the more contrary and reverted the more similary parts of this Bowl the Mass pierced through with heat sweat so that it made a Deluge which covered it above Forty days for so much Water required no less time to â—…ll down into the more declining and lower Regions of our Globe The Liquor of these Torrents being assembled formed the Sea which by its Salt makes it still apparent that it must needs be a conflux of Sweat all sweat being Salt. When the Waters were retired a fat and fertile Mud remained upon the Earth Now when the Sun shone out there arose a kind of a Tumor or Wheal which could not because of the Cold thrust out its bud It therefore received another coction and that coction still rectifying and perfecting it by a more exact mixture it sent forth a Sprout endowed then only with Vegetation but capable of Sense But because the Waters which had so long stood upon the slime had too much chilled it the swelling broke not so that the Sun recocted it once more and after a third Digestion that Matrix being so thoroughly heated that the Cold brought forth a Man who hath retained in the Liver which is the seat of the vegetative Soul and the place of the first Concoction the power of Growing in the Heart which is the seat of Activity and the place of second Concoction the vital Power and in the Brain which is the seat of the Intellectual and the place of the third Concoction the power of Reasoning Otherwise why should we be longer in the Womb of our Mothers than the rest of Animals unless it be that our Embryo receives three distinct Concoctions for forming the three distinct Faculties of our Soul and the Beasts only two for forming their two Powers I know that the Horse is not compleated in the Belly of the Mare before the tenth twelsth or fourteenth Month But seeing he is of a Constitution so contrary to that which makes us men that he never has Life but in Months which are observed to be fatal to ours when we remain in the Womb beyond the natural Course it is no wonder that Nature needs another period of time for delivering a Mare than that which brings a Woman to Bed. It is so but in fine some body may say The Horse remains longer than we in the Belly of his Mother and by consequence he receives there either more perfect or more numerous Coctions I answer that it follows not for not to rely upon the Observations that so many Learned men have made upon the Energy of numbers when they prove That all Matter being in motion some Beings are compleated in a certain Revolution of days which are destroyed in another nor yet to lay any great stress upon the Arguments they deduce from the Cause of all these motions to prove that the number Nine is the most perfect I shall content my self with this answer That the Bud of man being hotter the Sun interferes and compleats more Organs in the space of nine Months than he hath rough-hew'n in a Colt during a whole year Now it is not to be doubted but that a Horse is a great deal colder than a Man seeing that Beast never dies but of a Swelling of the Spleen or other Diseases that proceed from Melancholy Nevertheless you 'l tell me there is no man in our World engendred of Mud and produced in that manner I believe it your World at present is over-heated for so soon as the Sun draws a sprout out of the Earth finding none of that cold Humidity or to say better that certain Period of compleated Motion which obliges it to several Coctions it turns it presently into a Vegetable or if it make two Coctions seeing the second has not time enough to receive perfection in it only engenders an Insect And it is a Remark that I have made also That the Ape which as we carrys it's young almost nine Months resembles us in so many Humors that not a few Naturalists have ranked us in the same Species and the reason is that their Seed being of a temper much like ours hath during that time had almost the leisure to perfect those three Digestions You 'l undoubtedly ask me of whom I have the Story that now I have told you you 'l tell me that I could not have had it from those that were not in being It 's true I am the only person that hath hit upon it and by consequence I can give no Vouchers for it because it 's a thing that happened before I was born that 's likewise true But take this along with you also That in a Kegion bordering upon the Sun as ours does the Souls full of Fire are more illuminated more subtile and more penetrant than those of other Animals in remoter Spheres Now seeing even in your World there have been Prophets heretofore whose minds heightened by a vigorous Inspiration have had Fore-knowledge of future things it is not impossible but that in this which is far nearer the Sun by consequence more luminous than yours a strong Genius may have some smelling of what is past that his active Reason may move as well backwards as forwards and that it may be able to attain to the Cause by the Effects seeing it can reach the Effects by the Cause Thus he ended his Philosophical Disscourse but after a more particular Conserence that we had about very deep Secrets which he revealed to me part whereof I 'll conceal and of which the rest has escaped me he told me That it was not as yet three Weeks since a clod of Earth impregnated by the Sun was brought to Bed of him Consider that Tumor attentively Then he made me observe I know not what Swelling upon the Mud not unlike to a Mole-Hill That says he is an Apostume or to say better a Matrix which for these Nine Months past hath contained the Embryo of one of my Brothers I wait here on design to play the part of a Midwife to it He would have gone on had he not perceived a Palpitation of the Earth about that Swelling of Clay That with the bigness of the Tumor made him conclude that the Earth was in Labour and that that Shake was already the effort of the Pangs of Travel He thereupon immediately left me that he might run to it and for my part I went to look for my Lodge I therefore clambered up again the Mountain I had come down from and was very weary before I got to the top of it You may imagine what trouble I was in when I did not find my House where I had left it I began to lament the loss of it when I perceived it skipping and vaulting at a great distance I ran thither as fast as my Legs could carry me till I was out of Breath again and really it was an agreeable Diversion to behold that new way of Coursing for
have ordered their Servants to snatch them out of it's Clutches are nevertheless very angry when they awaken them In like manner tho' my Body growing obscure as I reached the darker Provinces recontracted the weaknesses that that infirmity of matter brings along with it yet I was pleased therewith Growing weary sleep invaded me for that flattering Heaviness wherewith the approaches of sleep charms us distilled so much pleasure into my Veins that my Senses over come thereby forced my Spirit to congratulate the Tyrant who chained its Servants for Sleep that Antient Tyrant of one half of our days who because of his Old age being unable to support the Light or to look on it without fainting was forced to forsake me upon my entry into the shining Countries of the Sun was come to expect me on the Confines of the dusky Region I speak of where having caught me he made me Prisoner shut up my Eyes his declared enemies under the dark vault of my Eye-lids and for fear that my other Senses betraying him as they had betrayed me might disturb him in the peaceable possession of his Conquest he tied them fast to their several Beds The meaning of all this is in two words that I lay down upon the Sand and fell asleep It was a plain Country and so open that as far as my sight could reach I did not discover so much as one Bush and nevertheless when I a woke I found my self under a Tree in respect of which the tallest Cedars would but appear as Grass The Trunk of it was of Massive Gold it's Branches of Silver and it's Leaves of Emeralds which upon the resplendent Verdure of their precious Surface represented as in a Looking-Glass the Images of the Fruit that hang about them But judge ye whether the Fruit owed any thing to the Leaves the enflamed Scarlet of a large Carbuncle composed one half of every one of them and the other was in suspence whether it held it's matter of a Chrysolite or of a piece of gilt Amber the blown Blossoms were large Roses of Diamonds and oriental Pearls the Buds A Nightingale whose smooth Plume rendered it exceeding lovely perching on the highest sprig seemed sollicitous with it's Melody to force the Eyes to confess to the Ears that it well deserved the Throne whereon it sate I stood a long while amazed at the sight of that rich Spectacle and I could not have my full of beholding it But whilst my thoughts were wholly taken up in contemplating amongst the other Fruit an exceeding lovely Pomegranate whose Flesh was a swarm of large Rubies in clusters I saw that little Crown that stands it instead of a Head move which lengthened it self as much as was needful to form a Neck next I saw somewhat white bubble and boil over it which by means of Condensation Concretion advancing and repelling the matter in certain places appeared at length to be the face of a little bulk of Flesh That little bulk shaped it self into a round Figure towards the girdle that 's to say that in the lower part of it it still retained the shape of an Apple Nevertheless it extended it self by degrees and the tail of it being converted into two Legs each Leg divided it self into five Toes So soon as the Pomegranate was humanized it broke off from its stalk and with a gentle Toss fell just at my Feet I confess really when I saw marching stately before me that rational Apple that little Butt-end of a Dwarf no bigger than my Thumb and yet so powerful as to create himself I was seized with Veneration Human Animal said he to me in that Original Tongue I told you of before after I had long considered thee from the top of the Branch where I hung I thought I read in thy countenance that thou wast no Native of this World and that 's the reason why I am come down to be informed of the truth When I had satisfied his Curiosity as to all the questions he put to me But pray said I to him tell me who you are for what I have now seen is so strangely surprising that I despair of ever knowing the Cause of it unless you discover it to me How a great Tree all of pure Gold the Leaves whereof are Emeralds the Flowers Diamonds the Buds Pearls and besides all that Fruit that make themselves men in the twinkling of an Eye For my part I confess it passes my Capacity to comprehend such a Miracle Having uttered this Exclamation whilst I expected his answer You will not take it amiss said he to me if being King of all the people that make up this Tree I call them to follow me When he had so said I observed that he recoiled within himself I cannot tell whether by bending the internal springs of his Will he excited without him some Motion that produced what now you shall hear But so it is That immediately after all the Leaves and Branches in short the whole Tree broke to pieces and became little Men that saw felt and walked who as if they intended to celebrate their Birth-day at the very instant of their production fell a dancing about me Of all I saw none but the Nightingale retained it's former shape and was not at all Metamorphosed it came and perched upon the Shoulder of our little Monarch where it Sung so melancholick and aâ—…orous an Air that the whole Assembly and the Prince himself mollified by the sweet Languishings of its dying Voice could not forbear to shed some Tears A Curiosity to learn whence that Bird came seized me at that time with such an extraordinary Itch of Tongue that I could not for my heart restrain it Sir said I addressing my self to the King did I not fear to trouble your Majesty I would ask you the question why amongst so many Transformations the Nightingale alone hath retained its kind That little Prince listened to me with so much Civility that it shew'd he had a great deal of good Nature and knowing my Curiosity The Nightingale replied he hath not changed its Form as we have done because it could not it 's a real Bird and nothing else than what it appears to be to you But let 's go towards the obscurer Regions and by the way I 'll tell you who I am and give you the Story of the Nightingale Hardly had I intimated to him the Satisfaction that I receiv'd from his offer when he skipped nimbly up upon one of my Shoulders He stood upon his little Tip-toes that he might reach my ear with his Mouth and sometimes swinging sometimes pestered in my Hair In troth said he thou must e'en excuse one that 's already out of breath seeing in a narrow Body my Lungs are contracted and by consequence my Voice so small that I am forced to take a great deal of pains to make my self be heard The Nightingale would do best to tell it 's own History it self let it sing then if it
cause the Servants to cut meat for me he had sometimes the goodness to prepare it for me himself If I catcht cold in the Winter he carried me to the Fire lined my Cage or ordered the Gardiner to warm me in his Bosom The Servants durst not vex me in his presence and one day I remember he saved me from the Jaws of the Cat who held me in her Paws to which my Lady 's little Page had exposed me but it will not be impertinent to tell you the Cause of that Barbarity To comply with Verdelet for that was the Page's name I was chattering one day some idle words that he had taught me Now it happened as ill Luck would have it though I always repeated my Lessons in course that I came to say in order just as he came in to deliver a Message Be quiet you Son of a Whore you lye The Man there that stands Indicted who knowing the Rogue to be naturally given to Lying imagined that I might very well have spoken by Prophecy and sent to the place to know if Verdelet had been there Verdelet was convinced of his Knavery Verdelet was whipt and Verdelet in revenge would have had me devoured by Maulkin The King by a Nod of the head shew'd that he was satisfied with the Pity that she had conceived for my disaster However he discharged her to speak any more to me in private Then he asked my Adversary's Council if his Plea was ready He made a sign with his Foot that he was going to speak and if I mistake it not these are the Points whereon he insisted against me The Plea brought in the Parliament of Birds Assembled against an Animal accused of being a Man. Gentlemen The Plaintiff is Guillemot the Fleshy a Partridge by extraction lately arrived from the World of the Earth his Breast still gaping by a shot that he hath received from Men Demandant against all Mankind and by consequence against an Animal whom I pretend to be a member of that great Body It would be no hard matter for us to hinder by his death the Violences that he can commit Nevertheless seeing the Preservation or Loss of every thing that has breath concerns the Common-Wealth of the Living I think we should deserve to have been made Men that 's to say Degraded from Reason and Immortality which we enjoy above them had we resembled them in any unjust Action like theirs Let us examine then Gentlemen the Difficulties of this Cause with all the Application that our divine minds are capable of The stress of the matter lies here to wit Whether or not this Animal be a Man and then in case we make it out that he is whether or not he deserves Death for that For my part I make no doubt but that he is in the first place Because he is so impudent as to tell a Lye in maintaining that he is not in the second place Because he laughs like a Fool thirdly In that he weeps like a Sot fourthly In that he blows his Nose like a nasty Villain fifthly In that he is Feathered but in part sixthly In that he carries his Tail before seventhly In that he hath always a great many little square Bones in his Mouth which he has neither the wit to spit out nor swallow down eighthly and lastly Because every Morning he lifts up his Eyes his Nose and large Snout claps his open Hands close together which he points up to Heaven joins them into one piece as if it troubled him to have two at liberty breaks his Legs short off by the middle so that he falls upon his Geegots and then by Magical words that he mutters I have observed That his broken Legs are knit again and that he rises up as gay as he was before Now you know Gentlemen that amongst all Animals none but Man has so black a Soul as to be given to Magick and by consequence I conclude That this is a Man We are now to enquire whether or not as Man he deserves to be put to death I think Gentlemen it never was yet doubted but that all Creatures are produced by our common Mother to live together in Society Now if I prove that Man seems to be Born only to break it shall I not make it out that he going contrary to the end of his Creation deserves that Nature should repent her self of her work The first and fundamental Law for the maintenance of a Republick is Equality But Man cannot endure it to Eternity he falls upon us that he may eat us he perswades himself that we were only made for his use he makes the Barbarity wherewith he massacres us and the small Resistance he finds on our side an Argument of his pretended Superiority And nevertheless wo'nt own Eagles Condores and Griffins who are too hard for the strongest Man to be his Masters But why should that great Size and conformation of Members make the diversity of Kind seeing there are Dwarffs and Giants to be found amongst Men themselves Nay more that Empire wherewith they flatter themselves is but an imaginary Right On the contrary they are so inclinable to Servitude that least they should not serve they fell one another for Slaves In this manner the Young are Slaves to the Old the Poor to the Rich the Clowns to the Gentlemen the Princes to the Monarchs and the Monarchs themselves to the Laws which they have Established And besides all that the poor Drudges are so afraid to be without Masters that as if they apprehended that Liberty might come to them from some unexpected place they frame to themselves Gods in all parts in the Water in the Air in the Fire and under the Earth they 'll make them of Wood rather than want nay I fancy also that they tickle themselves with the vain hopes of Immortality not so much out of a Horrour that they have of being annihilated as for fear that they may have none to command them after their death Here 's the fine effect of that fantastical Monarchy and of that natural Empire of Man as they would have it over the Animals nay and over us too for he has been so insolent as even to pretend to that In the mean while in consequence of that ridiculous Principality he fairly takes to himself the power of Life and Death over us he lays snares for us chains us claps us up in Prison kills us eats us and makes the power of killing those which remain free a mark of Nobility He thinks that the Sun is lighted on purpose to let him see how to make War against us that Nature hath only suffered us to take our turns in the Air that from our flight he may draw lucky or unlucky Auspices and that when God put Entrails into our Bodies his intention only was to make a great Book wherein Man might learn the Science of future Contingencies Good then is not this unsupportable Pride Could any that 's