No Man is to be Despis’d for any Natural Infirmity, or Defect; for Every
Man has something or other in him of Good too, and That which One Man
Wants, Another Has. And it is all according to the Good Pleasure of
Providence. Nature is pleas’d to Entertain her self with Variety. Some of
her Works are for Ornament, others for the Use and Service of Mankind.
But they have All Respectively, their Properties, and their Virtues;
for she does nothing in Vain. The _Peacock_ Values himself upon the
Gracefulness of his Train. The _Crane_’s Pride is in the Rankness of her
Wing: Which are only Two Excellencies in several Kinds. Take them apart,
and they are Both Equally Perfect: but Good Things Themselves have their
Degrees, and That which is most Necessary and Useful, must be Allow’d a
Preference to the Other.