to communicate his speculations
to; Sic natura solitarium nihil a∣mat;
whence he nobly inferrs, how
highly necessary Conversation is to
friendship; & that he must certainly
be of no good nature, who does
not preferre it before all other en∣joyments
of life whatsoever: We
know who it is has pronounc'd the
Vae soli,Eccles. 4. 10. and how necessary God
found the Conjngations of Man∣kind,
without which nor had the
Earth been inhabited with Men,
nor Heaven fill'd with Saints: So∣lomon
says Two are better then One,
and a threefold cord is not easily bro∣ken;Eccles. 4. 9. 12.
and Plutarch tells us that of
old they were wont to call men
Photo, which imports light; not
only for the vehement desire
which there is in him to know and
be known; but (as I would add) for
it's universal communication; there
being few of whom it may be af∣firm'd,
as 'twas of Scipio, that he
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