THE ARCANA OF ETERNITY. 161 



and Sin; on Happiness; on the question, Are Assemblies 

 worthier than Individuals? on the Existence of some 

 Truth in all Falsehood, and of some Falsehood in all 

 Truth; on the Necessity, Uses, and Harms of Law. 

 There must have "been no little boldness and originality 

 of treatment in a book of this kind written by Cardan; 

 but as it was not to be published, I must say no more of 

 it, and turn to works with which the world at large be- 

 came acquainted. 



When he sought fame in print as a physician, he had 

 been told that he was only qualified to write on Mathe- 

 matics. Well, he would publish next a work on Mathe- 

 matics; upon that subject also he had new ideas to com- 

 municate. Should he be honoured as a prophet then by his 

 compatriots? The Milanese physicians still rejected him. 

 In 1537, Jerome humbled himself again to petition for 

 admission to their college. He had, indeed, for a short 

 time consented to what he considered a dishonourable ad- 

 justment of his quarrel with them. The truce did not 

 last long, and he was again formally rejected 1 . In the 

 same year, however, a new patient was obtained, whose 

 friendship gave him hope of better days. Anxiously 

 must they have been desired by Lucia, who had by this 

 time two children to support; the second child a daughter, 

 Clara, having been born in the preceding year 2 . 



1 De Vit. Propr. p. 147. 



3 De Vita Propr. p. 20. The date is inferred readily from the state- 

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