A _Council_ of _Beasts_.
The _Beasts_ (a great while ago) were so harass’d out with Perpetual
Feuds and Factions, that they call’d a _General Council_, in the nature
of a _Committee of Grievances_, to Advise upon some way for the Adjusting
of Differences, in order to a Publick Peace. After a great many Notable
Things said upon the Debate, _Pro_ and _Con_, the _Hares_ at last,
(according to the _Printed Votes_ of those Days,) deliver’d their Sense
to this Effect: There can never be any Quiet in this World, so long as
one Beast shall be allow’d Nails, Teeth, or Horns, more then Another;
but the Weaker will still be a Prey to the Stronger: Wherefore we humbly
propose an _Universal Parity_, and that we may be all upon the same
_Level_, both for Dignity and Power; for we may then, and not till then,
promise our selves a Blessed State of Agreement, when no one Creature
shall be able to Hurt another.
The MORAL.
_The_ Mobile _are still for Levelling; that is to say, for Advancing
themselves: For ’tis as Broad as ’tis Long, whether they Rise to others,
or bring others down to them. Beside, that the Doctrin of Levelling
strikes at the very Order of Providence._