Wifdom the Strength of the Mind. 93 pafl'ions, that is, our own prefervation ; and SE R Nr: there it ought to refl. But often it is ac- Iv companied with a violent propenfion to the mif ry of the apprehended injurious, and tranfporteth men into a behaviour very un- becoming them, and which they cannot re- lied upon without regret and confufion. Now, let us confider the fvmptoms which commonly appear in men, and are produ- ced by thefe original caufes of our diforders in our prefent infirm Bate, that fo we may fee the need of wifdom as a remedy, if it be indeed a remedy. And, firfl:, we find that during the prevalence of the palliions al- ready mentioned, and efpecially in their firff and moll violent affaults, the underflanding is obfcured, at leaf}, we have not the due ufe of it. How often are men in the extre- mities of fear, and forrow, and anger, redu- ced almofl to an incapacity of thinking? and even, in lower degrees of thefe paífions, they have not fach clear views of things, which efpecially are more immediately ne- ceffary in their prefent circumffances, as otherways they might have. It feemeth to be the natural tendency of pain to arrefl the thoughts ; the mind is detained in the af- fíiing conuderation of that which render- eth it uneafy, without having freedom to view
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