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dren resemble parents, why the drinking of potable gold 

 procures long life, touches upon the admiration of beauty 

 among other things, and in the next book upon the 

 Senses proceeds to inquire what beauty is, and for what 

 reason we delight in it. The sense of hearing suggests a 

 discussion upon hydraulic organs and upon music. The 

 sense of smell suggests the question, why is it that men 

 who smell well rarely are far-sighted and are more 

 ingenious than other people ? In this chapter is also 

 explained why people who have sharp eyes are slow to 

 fall in love, and by a just connexion with the main 

 subject there is also room found for an inquiry why thorns 

 grow with roses, and for instructions how to catch birds 

 and fish, and how to keep flies from horses. 



From the senses of man the theme rises to a considera- 

 tion of his soul and intellect, to a survey of his wisdom 

 and his passions and his faculties, including an artificial 

 and a passive memory. Here we meet with a few shrewd 

 definitions, as that Bashfulness consists of Hope and Fear ; 

 Envy is a thin Hate; Suspicion is a little Fear, just as 

 Audacity is a vast Hope 1 . It needs not to be said that 

 through all former chapters of the work good sayings have 

 been scattered, as for instance, that the shadow of princes 

 is the cap of fools, a proverb taken, perhaps, from the ver- 



r * "Verecundia ex spe constat et timore." "Invidia vero odium 

 tenue est." " Suspitio vero timor est parvus, velut audacia spes 

 maxima." De Subtil, p. 246. 



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