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tottus ; which is, that it disposeth the constitution of the 
mind not to be fixed or settled in the defects thereof, but 
still to be capablesand susceptible of growth and reform- 
ation. For the tnlearned man knows not what it is to 
descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor 
the pleasure’of that swavissima vita, indies sentire se fiert 
meliorem. The good parts he hath he will learn to show 
to the full, and use them dexterously, but not much to 
increase them. ‘The faults he hath he will learn how to 
hide and colour them, but not much to amend them; like 
an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his 
scythe. Whereas with the learnéd.man it fares otherwise, 
that he doth ever intermix the correction and amend- 
ment of his mind with the use _and employment thereof. 
‘Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that 
Veritas and Bonitas differ but as the seal and the print: 
for Truth -prints Goodness, and they be the clouds of 
error which descend in the storms of oesticy and per- 
turbationss 
§. From moral yirtue let us pass on to matter of pe power 
and commandment, and consider whether in right reason ~ 
there be any comparable with that wherewith kifow- 
ledge investeth and crowneth man’s nature. We see the 
dignity of the commandment is according to the dignity 
of the commanded : to have commandment over beasts, 
as herdmen have, is a thing contemptible: to have -com- 
mandment over children, as schooltnasters have, is’ a 
matter of small honour: to have commandment over 
galley-slaves isa disparagement rather than an honour. 
Neither is the commandment of tyrants much better, over 
people which have put off the generosity of their minds: 
and therefore it was ever holden that honours in frée 
monarchies and commonwealths had a sweetness more 
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