The growth of reason in a person goes along
with his becoming able to form general abstract ideas, and
to understand general names [= ‘words’]; John Locke 1689
Poetry quite often plays with philosophy. Recognition and understanding of a common and shared conclusion, given the evidence, defines who you are. Everyone has a philosophy. Based on your experiences(senses), learning(empirical data), and reasoning(inductive and deductive) you have decided, for now, what is what. Here is a link that gives the whole text of abstract and complex discourse, shall we say, written (paraphrased) in a way that is easier to understand to the modern reader. I recommend wading through the original published work on Project Guttenberg or librox as an audio file, but they are limited to public domain, out of copyright text.
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/index.html
or like this:
So primal germs have solid singleness
Nor otherwise could they have been conserved
Through aeons and infinity of time
For the replenishment of wasted worlds.
Lecretius 50 B.C
andhttp://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.1.i.html