130 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [ 1x. I, 
we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which 
hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or 
distributively ; the other congregate, or in society. So as 
human philosophy is either simple and particular, or con- 
jugate and civil. Humanity particular consisteth of the 
same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of know- 
ledges which respect the body, and of knowledges that 
respect the mind. But before we distribute so far, it is 
good to constitute. For I do take the consideration in 
general, and at large, of human nature to be fit to be 
emancipate and made a knowledge by itself: not so much 
in regard of those delightful and elegant discourses which 
have been made of the dignity of man, of his miseries, of 
his state and life, and the like adjuncts of his common 
and undivided nature; but chiefly in regard of the know- 
ledge concerning the sympathies and concordances be- 
tween the mind and body, which being mixed cannot be 
properly assigned to the sciences of either. 
2. This knowledge hath two branches: for as all 
leagues and amities consist of mutual intelligence and 
mutual offices, so this league of mind and body hath 
these two parts; how the one discloseth the other, and 
how the one worketh upon the other; discovery and 
impression. The former of these hath begotten two 
arts, both of prediction or prenotion; whereof the one 
is honoured with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other 
of Hippocrates. And although they have of later time 
been used to be coupled with superstitious and fantastical 
arts, yet being purged and restored to their true state, 
they have both of them a solid ground in nature, and a 
profitable use in life. The first is physiognomy, which 
_ discovereth the disposition of the mind by the lineaments 
of the body. The second is the exposition of natural 
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