42 OF THE ADVANCEMEN’ LE. 
Nil tam metuens, quam ne dubitare aliqua de re videretur : 
nor on the other side into Socrates his ironical doubting 
of all things ; but to propound things sincerely with more — 
or less asseveration, as they stand in a man’s own judge- 
ment proved more or less. 
1o. Other errors there are in the scope that men 
propound to themselves, whereunto they bend their en- 
deavours ; for whereas the more constant and devote 
kind of professors of any science ought to propound to 
themselves to make some additions to their science, they 
. convert their labours to aspire to certain second prizes: 
as to be a profound interpreter or commenter, to be a 
sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical com- 
pounder or abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge 
cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom aug- 
mented. 
tr. But the greatest error of all the rest is the mis- 
taking or _misplacing 0 of the last or furthest end of know- 
ledge. For men have entered into a desiré of learning 
and knowledgé, Sometimes upon a natural curiosity and 
inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds 
with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and 
reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of 
wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and 
profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account . 
of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use ‘of men: as | 
if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to! 
rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for al 
wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with 
a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to 
raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for! 
strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and) 
not a rich storehouse-for the glory of the Creator and the — 
