to the angelic or brute part of his constitution, he is then
denominated good or bad, virtuous or wicked: if love, mercy, and
good-nature prevail, they speak him of the angel; if hatred, cruelly,
and envy predominate, they declare his kindred to the brute.

8. 'Hence it was that some ancients imagined, that as men in this life
incline more to the angel or the brute, so after their death they should
transmigrant into the one or the other; and it would be no unpleasant
notion to consider the several species of brutes, into which we may
imagine that tyrants, misers, the proud, malicious, and ill-natured,
might be changed.

9. 'As a consequence of this original, all passions are in all men, but
appear not in all: constitution, education, custom of the, country,
reason, and the like causes may improve or abate the strength of them,
but still the seeds remain, which are ever ready to sprout forth upon
the least encouragement.

10. 'I have heard a story of a good religious man, who having been bred
with the milk of a goat, was very modest in public, by a careful
reflection he made of his actions, but he frequently had an hour in
secret, wherein he had his frisks and capers; and, if we had an
opportunity of examining the retirement of the strictest philosophers,
no doubt but we should find perpetual returns of those passions they so
artfully conceal from the public.

11. 'I remember _Machiavel_ observes, that every state should entertain
a perpetual jealousy of its neighbours, that so it should never be
unprovided when an emergency happens; in like manner should reason be
perpetually on its guard against the passions, and never suffer them to
carry on any design that may be destructive of its security; yet, at the
same time, it must be careful, that it don't so far break their strength
as to render them contemptible, and, consequently, itself unguarded.

12. 'The understanding being of itself too slow and lazy to exert itself
into action, it is necessary it should be put in motion by the gentle
gales of passion, which may preserve it from stagnation and corruption;
for they are necessary to the help of the mind, as the circulation of
the animal spirits is to the health of the body; they keep it in life,
and strength and vigour: nor is it possible for the mind to perform its
offices without their assistance; these motions are given us with our
being: they are little spirits, that are born and die with us; to some
they are