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two: thus man has somewhat of the brute, the brute some 

 what of the plant, the plant somewhat of the mineral; so 

 that all natural bodies have really two faces, or consist of 

 a superior and an inferior species. 



There lies a curious allegory in the making of Pan goat- 

 footed, on account of the motion of ascent, which the terres 

 trial bodies have toward the air and heavens: for the goat is 

 a clambering creature, that delights in climbing up rocks 

 and precipices ; and in the same manner the matters destined 

 to this lower globe strongly affect to rise upward, as ap 

 pears from the clouds and meteors. And it was not with 

 out reason that Gilbert, who has written a painful and 

 elaborate work upon the magnet, doubted whether ponder 

 ous bodies, after being separated a long distance from the 

 earth, do not lose their gravitating tendency toward it. 



Pan s arms, or the ensigns he bears in his hands, are 

 of two kinds; the one an emblem of harmony, the other 

 of empire. His pipe, composed of seven reeds, plainly de 

 notes the consent and harmony, or the concords and discords 

 of things, produced by the motion of the seven planets. If 

 there be other planets yet concealed, or any greater muta 

 tions in the heavens, as in superlunary comets, they seem 

 like pipes either altogether united or silent for a time, be 

 cause their influence either does not reach so low as us, 

 or leaves uninterrupted the harmony of the seven pipes 

 of Pan. His crook also contains a fine representation of 

 the ways of nature, which are partly straight and partly 

 crooked: thus the staff, having an extraordinary bend 

 toward the top, denotes that the works of Divine Provi 

 dence are generally brought about by remote means, or in 

 a circuit, as if somewhat else were intended, rather than the 

 effect produced; as in the sending of Joseph into Egypt. 

 So, likewise, in human government, they who sit at the 

 helm manage and wind the people more successfully by 

 pretext and oblique courses than they could by such as are 

 direct and straight; so that in effect all sceptres are crooked 

 on the top. Nay, in things strictly natural you may sooner 



