mere idiots, yet they stick close to the course of their trade,
neither can they find in their heart to decline from it:
and is it not a grievous thing that an architect, or a physician
shall respect the course and mysteries of their profession,
more than a man the proper course and condition of his
own nature, reason, which is common to him and to the Gods?

XXXIII. Asia, Europe; what are they, but as corners of
the whole world; of which the whole sea, is but as one drop;
and the great Mount Athos, but as a clod, as all present
time is but as one point of eternity. All, petty things;
all things that are soon altered, soon perished.
And all things come from one beginning; either all severally
and particularly deliberated and resolved upon, by the general
ruler and governor of all; or all by necessary consequence.
So that the dreadful hiatus of a gaping lion, and all poison,
and all hurtful things, are but (as the thorn and the mire)
the necessary consequences of goodly fair things.
Think not of these therefore, as things contrary to those which
thou dost much honour, and respect; but consider in thy mind.
the true fountain of all.

XXXIV He that seeth the things that are now, hath Seen
all that either was ever, or ever shall be, for all
things are of one kind; and all like one unto another.
Meditate often upon the connection of all things in the world;
and upon the mutual relation that they have one unto another.
For all things are after a sort folded and involved one
within another, and by these means all agree well together.
For one thing is consequent unto another, by local motion,