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THE UNIVERSAL REFORMATION. 41
conversed but four dales with any quack-salver, know how
to penetrate even into the inmost bowels."
This memorandum of the physitians wrought so much
with Apollo that he changed his former resolution, and
by Ausonius Gallus bad the philosophers
of the Reforma-
tion proceed in delivering their opinions.
Then Solon thus : began
"
In my opinion, gentlemen,
that which hath put the present age into so great confusion
is the cruel hatred and spiteful envy which is seen to reign
generally amongst men. All hope then for these present
evils is from the infusion of charity, reciprocal affection,
and that sanctified love of our neighbour which is God's
chiefest commandment to mankind. We ought, therefore,
to employ all our skill in removing the occasions of those
hatreds which reign in men's hearts, which, if we be able
to effect, men will agree like other animals, who, by instinct,
love their own species, and will, consequently, drive away
all hatred and rancor of mind. I have been long thinking,
my friends, what the true spring's head may be of all
human hatred, and am still more established in my old
opinion that it proceeds from the disparity of means, from
the hellish custom of meum and tuum, which, if it were
introduced among the beasts, even they would consume
and waste themselves with the same hatred wherewith we
so much disquiet ourselves, whereas the equality in which
they live, and their having nothing of their own,
are the
them which we
blessings which preserve that peace among
have cause to envy. Men are likewise creatures, but
rational ; this world was created by Almighty God, that
mankind might live thereon in peace, not that the avari-
tious should divide it amongst themselves, and should turn
what was common into that meum and tuum which hath