<p type="head"><s>To the mo&longs;t Serene Grand DUKE
<lb/> OF
<lb/> TUSCANY.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>Though the difference between Men and other
<lb/> living Creatures be very great, yet happly he that
<lb/> &longs;hould &longs;ay that he could &longs;hew little le&longs;s between
<lb/> Man and Man would not &longs;peak more than he
<lb/> might prove. </s><s>What proportion doth one bear to
<lb/> athou&longs;and? </s><s>and yet it is a common Proverb, <emph type="italics"/>One Man is
<lb/> worth athou&longs;and, when as a thou&longs;and are not worth one.<emph.end type="italics"/> This difference
<lb/> hath dependence upon the different abilities of their Intelle­
<lb/> ctuals; which I reduce to the being, or not being a Philo&longs;o­
<lb/> pher; in regard that Philo&longs;ophy as being the proper food of
<lb/> &longs;uch as live by it, di&longs;tingui&longs;heth a Man from the common E&longs;­
<lb/> &longs;ence of the Vulgar in a more or le&longs;s honourable degree accord­
<lb/> ing to the variety of that diet. </s><s>In this &longs;ence he that hath the
<lb/> highe&longs;t looks, is of highe&longs;t quality; and the turning over of
<lb/> the great Volume of Nature, which is the proper Object of
<lb/> Philo&longs;ophy is the way to make one look high: in which Book,
<lb/> although what&longs;oever we read, as being the Work of Al­
<lb/> mighty God, is therefore mo&longs;t proportionate; yet notwith­
<lb/> &longs;tanding that is more ab&longs;olute and noble wherein we more
<lb/> plainly de&longs;erne his art and skill. </s><s>The <emph type="italics"/>Con&longs;titution<emph.end type="italics"/> of the <emph type="italics"/>Vnivers,<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> among all Phy&longs;ical points that fall within Humane Compre­
<lb/> hen&longs;ion, may, in my opinion, be preferred to the Precedency:
<lb/> for if that in regard of univer&longs;al extent it excell all others, it
<lb/> ought as the Rule and Standard of the re&longs;t to goe before
<lb/> them in Nobility. </s><s>Now if ever any per&longs;ons might challenge
<lb/> to be &longs;ignally di&longs;tingui&longs;hed for Intellectuals from other men;
