The Bus’ness of the World, is more or less, the Bus’ness of Every Man
that lives in’t; And if the Great and the Small do not Joyn in One Common
Assistance, where the Matter requires it, they are in Danger to be Both
Undone; So that it is for the Good of the Whole, that the Several Parts
take care One of Another.
We have here set before us the Mischiefs of Ill Nature, and Imprudence,
both in One; and the Folly of not Heeding the Duty, as well as the Common
Necessity of Helping One Another. [_This is None of My Bus’ness_] we
Cry: never considering, that in Things Requisite to be done, what One
Cannot, Another Must: Beside, that in the Case of a Fellow-Servant, or
an Honest Neighbour, I am as much bound to save him from Sinking under
a Heavy Burthen, as I am to give him a Cup of Drink, or a Morsel of
Bread, to keep him from Choaking or Starving: It makes a Breach in a
Community, when Particular Men shall take upon them to Divide from the
Common Service of the Body: And He that sets up a Private Interest,
Separate from the Publique, Discontinues the Connexion of the Government,
by Cutting off That Link of the Chain. But the Miseries and Calamities
that follow upon departing from the Known Rules and Measures of Political
Order, are sufficient to Enlighten us in the Reason of Political Methods,
and to Excite us to an Agreement in all Reciprocal Services, One with
Another. There’s the Duty of Charity in’t, and the Foundations of
Governing Prudence; Beside, that we are likewise Mov’d to’t, by a Sense
of Tenderness, Honour and Justice.
The Churlish Humour of this _Horse_, is too much the Humour of Mankind,
even in the Case of Subjects to the same Master; but such is the Vanity
that many People draw from their Titles, and their Trappings, that they
look down upon their Fellows, as if they were not All made of the same
Clay. To speak the Plain Truth of the Matter, ’Tis the Little People that
support the Great; and when the Foundation fails, the whole Fabrick must
either drop into Rubbish, or otherwise Rest upon the Shoulders of their
Superiours.