It will be advisable to explain a little more fully by an example what I mean by sterility being incidental on other differences, and not a specially
endowed quality.
He had seen and talked with most of the creatures when from time to time they had been brought singly into the workshop that their creator might mitigate the wrong he had done by training the poor minds with which he had
endowed them to reason intelligently.
It is also from natural causes that some beings command and others obey, that each may obtain their mutual safety; for a being who is
endowed with a mind capable of reflection and forethought is by nature the superior and governor, whereas he whose excellence is merely corporeal is formect to be a slave; whence it follows that the different state of master [1252b] and slave is equally advantageous to both.
It is acted upon by three independent forces: the resistance of the air, the attraction of the earth, and the force of impulsion with which it is
endowed. Let us examine these three forces.
Black George was, in the main, a peaceable kind of fellow, and nothing choleric nor rash; yet did he bear about him something of what the antients called the irascible, and which his wife, if she had been
endowed with much wisdom, would have feared.