For between £200 and £2000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 9 liters of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurized.
The strength of the mastiff is not in the least supported either by the swiftness of the greyhound, or by the sagacity of the spaniel, or by the docility of the shepherd's dog.
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a grey-hound, or a grey-hound from a spaniel, or this last from a shepherd's dog.