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Show 206 A Relation of the Spaniih Vqyage: fore have no other thoughts night or day but to contrive means of amalling together as much Trea- fure as they can. Upon this account the Philofopher determins that 'tis a dangerous thing to put Nations or Provinces under the Government of fuch as are covetous or needy, who are refolv'd to be rich at any rate in the world. We are inform'd in Hiltory that the Romans being about to fend two Confuls to govern Spain, one of whom was poor and the other covetous; when this Affair was prepos'd to the Senat, Scipio Africanus gave his opinion that neither of 'em was proper to make a Governor, there being reafon to fear that both would abufe their Authority to feather their Nefts out of the public Stock; becaufe fuch kind of Perfons are like Leeches in a Commonwealth, and make it their principal care to gather fomething on every fide, and to devour the Subitance of the People, making themfelves rich at their charge, becaufe their covetous Defires can never be fatiated as long as they remain in this World: Nay it mult be ad- ded, that this Vice moft commonly proves incurav ble', {‘0 that if Men greedy of Lucre get Authority over any People, they will not fail to fpoil and ruin 'em, becaufe the Pallion that animates 'cm, keeps no bounds or meafures. No Laws nor Penalties with which they can be menaced, will be ftrong enough to reftrain 'em, as long as they are invefted with and Craeltz'e: if: the Welt-Indie s. 207 hoards of Treafure wherein i' ppinefs becaufe Money anfvtiers all thihlgsfl-a or t liSconfifis, is that which capacitates Men to undert.ake th EnterpriZes, and to obtain whatever th eye degreateit lire in a this World, the highefl: Employments, Dignities, coftly Habit, and the moth del icigtgrggig ties. ; this faci . lita D tes their commiflio n of all 31:11:12,133: tem opportunity to be reveri ,. o acquaint themfelves w'th gfdssrf of great Qua ' lit . y, and to obtai n their l Per fons vEvfgfitcilniéekli‘ti:Voitlhthfifehaccounts that ' Fav the Meguorf 8th: 1 a t eir might and f {elves to {0 many Fati gues and Per,'il expo 6 thempefiate the greateft Villanies to proseiuraeS ivtvfu as perthe Sowl the pofl'ellion of Riches can nev r otu ,1 f0 as to give it perfect conten er fatisfy t; for 'tis pehpe ua ly cravmg what it does not yet poll‘efs f0 itefore the Worldling, who has chol'en Mon); r [S chief Good and lafl: End, is indiff erent as to ,other thi _ ngs, bu. t devotes h'imfelf entire .cmploying all hIS‘CaI'C and diligence ' ] t th' to inhregife iii; l Eiglggt mad his thirfl: of Gold grows more and more accord? y how much the more his Eft is b mg to the Philofopher's Maxim, thaate fwells t Motioxi y fo much the more impetuous by how 'much iiiarer it approaches its end. , rice is a. more incurable Evil than Concu if. :31 bEC u U C ' H aufe its omen, and the, things it promif ea t e Hearts of Power; and the more fuccefsful any covetous Man Men with greater violence, an _ d he the does po ‘ earnellly we more r the of he, to Mo ny 15' of a larger extent, be- finds his lnduftry delire and purfue Riches, which he accounts the "if ghputs a Man in a condition to gratify his fuprcme Good. The delire of being rich produces imaRiChereas this on the other hand can't procure much the fame effect in the mind of 3 POOr cove- ‘ the Mindeih The love of.Mony endures longer on tons Man, as the hope of Celel'cial Happinefs WOI‘Jd w Viola an the Appetite of fenfual Pleafures, at and impetnous foever they may be for perfectly fillSjJI‘ ltime in th" Of a good Md"; for as this ardently wiihes tor the Cipacity of his Mind that it, 1'0 the Mil‘er's Soul can delire nothing Eeiides 03lL-‘ - CGVetoufnefs [5' always on the advance, and - ~d but Wit. h a Man's Life: For the ‘ ndom cxr-mguifli l I more |
