...all, (p. 114) and asks 'What is Man? a foolishe beast" (p. 114) as Hamlet asks What is a man If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more! and he says that ambition is (IV. iv. 33-5) Much like a spurre, and many brings to toppes of Vertue...

...those motives and to deduce their origin in terms of cosmic properties, as begun in the next chapter. What is a man, if his chief good and market of his...Capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event—...

...example this passage from the soliloquy beginning "How all occasions do inform against me" (IV.iv.32-66): What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (33-39) The view that reason constitutes the essential difference between "man" and "beast"...

...and societies alike is a matter of culture - indeed, it depends on culture. In Shakespeare's words, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. Thanks to the power of speech, man is able to set forth the advantageous and the harmful, the...

...drowsy, the king in his last days seems to embody the very life his son reproaches himself for leading, "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?" (4.4.33—5). It is also the life-style of his brother; he is the "bloat King" (3.4.184) distended...