Do I have the skills and understanding for this task? If I do, I'll use them like any other tool I was born with. No need for applause or showing off. If I don't have what it takes, and this isn't really my job anyway, I'll either drop it and let someone better handle it, or I'll try it with help from others. Together we might accomplish something useful for everyone. Whatever I do, alone or with others, the only thing that matters is whether it serves the common good.
Is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no? If it be sufficient, without any private applause, or public ostentation as of an instrument, which by nature I am provided of, I will make use of it for the work in hand, as of an instrument, which by nature I am provided of. if it be not, and that otherwise it belong not unto me particularly as a private duty, I will either give it over, and leave it to some other that can better effect it: or I will endeavour it; but with the help of some other, who with the joint help of my reason, is able to bring somewhat to pass, that will now be seasonable and useful for the common good. For whatsoever I do either by myself, or with some other, the only thing that I must intend, is, that it be good and expedient for the public.