XXXIII. Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one
living substance, and having but one soul, and how all things
in the world, are terminated into one sensitive power; and are done
by one general motion as it were, and deliberation of that one soul;
and how all things that are, concur in the cause of one another's being,
and by what manner of connection and concatenation all things happen.

XXXIV. What art thou, that better and divine part excepted,
but as Epictetus said well, a wretched soul, appointed to carry
a carcass up and down?

XXXV. To suffer change can be no hurt; as no benefit
it is, by change to attain to being. The age and time
of the world is as it were a flood and swift current,
consisting of the things that are brought to pass in the world.
For as soon as anything hath appeared, and is passed away,
another succeeds, and that also will presently out of sight.

XXXVI. Whatsoever doth happen in the world, is, in the course of nature,
as usual and ordinary as a rose in the spring, and fruit in summer.
Of the same nature is sickness and death; slander, and lying in wait,
and whatsoever else ordinarily doth unto fools use to be occasion
either of joy or sorrow. That, whatsoever it is, that comes after,
doth always very naturally, and as it were familiarly, follow upon
that which was before. For thou must consider the things of the world,
not as a loose independent number, consisting merely of necessary events;
but as a discreet connection of things orderly and harmoniously disposed.
There is then to be seen in the things of the world, not a bare
succession, but an admirable correspondence and affinity.