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Whether Men as they be∣come richer or poorer, free, or servile, be not of a different Genius, or be∣come new modeld, and whether these things hap∣pen not as the ballance changes?
SƲch suddain changes of the Genius and Nature of Men, I leave to the Pipe of Orpheus, or Ovids Meta∣morphosis.
A Pretty jeer; but there is one in that Book metamorphosed into the Bird that cannot see by day. Now, a change that happens in the Revolution of one hundred and forty years, is not suddain; but so long hath the Government in question been changing from Ari∣stocratical to popular: and if the Acts of popular Councils from that time, have still been and be to this hour more and more po∣pular, the Genius of the people is as cleer as the day with the altera∣tion of it, in those opinions you in your first Letter are pleased to call the ignorance or wilfulnesse of these daies, that since the Aristo∣cratical ballance of the Clergy is gone, shake the yoak of the Priest, The Butcher sought his Knife and had it in his mouth.