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ational) knowledges ; : siiotehi if I have made the divi- } d 
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sions ete than tho those that are re received, yet 1 would I not 
be_thought to disallow all those divisions which I do nc not 
use. For there is a double necessity imposed. upon me 
of altering the divisions. The one, because it differeth 
in / vend | and purpose, to sort together those things which 
are next in nature, and those things which are next in_ 
use. For if a secretary of estate should sort his papers, 
it is like in his study or general cabinet he would sort 
together things of a nature, as treaties, instructions, &c. 
But in his boxes or particular cabinet he would sort 
together those that he were like to use together, though A. 
of several natures. So in this general rie disions of 
ledge it was necessary for me to follow-the divisions of 
the (nature of things; whereas if myself had been_to 
-handlé any particular knowledge, I would have respected 
the divisions fittest for use. The other, because the 
bringing in of the he deficiences did by consequence alter 
e partitions of the the rest. For let the knowledge extant 
(for demonstration sake) be fifteen. Let the knowledge 
with the deficiences be twenty; the parts of fifteen are 
not the parts of twenty; for the parts of fifteen are three 
and five ; the parts of twenty are two, four, five, and ten. 
So as these things. are without contradiction, and could b 
not otherwise be, 
XX. 1. WE proceed now to that knowledge which 
considereth of the appetite and will of 
man: whereof Salomon saith, Anée omnia, fil’, custodi-cor 
tuum ; nam inde procedunt actiones vite. In the handling 
of this science, thosé which have written seem to me to 
have done as if a man, that professed to teach to write, 
did only exhibit fair copies of alphabets and letters 
