That I must necessarily allow.

You add, moreover, that reason cannot exist but in a human form.

Who, do you think, will admit that?
If it were true, what occasion was there to come so gradually to it?
And to what purpose?
You might have answered it on your own authority.

I perceive your gradations from happiness to virtue, and from virtue to reason; but how do you come from reason to human form?
There, indeed, you do not descend by degrees, but precipitately.
Nor can I conceive why Epicurus should rather say the Gods are like men than that men are like the Gods.

You ask what is the difference; for, say you, if this is like that, that is like this.