Vain Fears and Imaginations Cast a Mist before our Eyes, and not only
Represent Real Dangers Greater then they Are, but Create Fantastical
Difficulties, where in Truth there are None at all. The _Birds_ were in
a Mortal Apprehension of the _Beetles_, till the _Sparrow_ Reason’d them
into a Better Understanding of the Matter. How should they Hurt us in the
Air, says the _Sparrow_, with Those Pellets, that they can hardly Move
upon the Ground, which brought the Point to an Issue upon a very Logical
Conclusion.