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JecimuSy nee mopes ejus, fed frodigi fiimm^ as *S^- 

 neca faith, We have not received a fbort Life^ but 

 have made it Jo -, neither do we want Time^ but are 

 prodigal of it. And did bui young Men fill up 

 that Time with thefe Studies, which lies upoa 

 their Hands, which they are incumbered with, 

 and troubled how to pafs away, much might be 

 done even fo. I do not fee but the Study of true 

 Phyfiology may be juftly accounted a proper, or 

 ifpoTmi^ix Preparative to Divinity. But to leave 

 that, it is a generally receiv'd Opinion, that all 

 this vifible World was created for Man ; that 

 Man is the End of the Creation ; as if there 

 were no other End of any Creature, but fome 

 way or other to be ferviceable to Man. This 

 Opinion is as old as Tully ; for, faith he, in his 

 Second Book, De Nat, Deorum, Principio ipfe 

 Mundus Deorum hominumque caufd fa^us eji : 

 quceque in eo funt omnia ea parata ad fruBum 

 hominum & inventa funt. But tho' this be vul- 

 garly receiv'd, yet wife Men now-a-days think 

 otherwife. Dr. More affirms, * That 

 Creatures are made to enjoy themlelves * Antidot. 

 as well as to Jerve us ; ana that tt ts a ^ „ 

 grofs piece of Ignorance and Rujiicity 

 to think otherwife. And in another Place: This 

 comes only out of Pride and Ignorance^ or a haughty 

 Prefhnption \ becaufe we are encouraged to believe 

 that in fome Senfe all Things are made for Man^ 

 therefore to think that they are not at all made for 

 themfelves. But he that pro?iounceth this^ is igfio- 

 rani of the Nature of Man^ and the Knowledge of 



Things : 



