nam illud, sicuti ego censeo, qui animum tuum membris duco potiorem, non habet aequalitatem, quod statum nostrum supra pecudes veri falsique nescias ratiocinatio animae intellectualis evexit; cuius si tantisper summoveant dignitatem isti, qui amicos ludificabundi non tam iudicialiter quam oculariter intuentur, dicant velim in hominis forma quid satis praestans, quid spectabile putent.
But, as I hold, who consider your soul more precious than your body, all that is of minor importance, because the reasoning faculty of an understanding mind has raised us above the beasts of the field, who do not know true from false. If the importance of this reasoning power is, even for a moment, suppressed by these mockers whose view of their friends is derived, not from reasoned judgment, but from the outward eye, I should like them to state what they think specially outstanding and remarkable in the human frame.
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