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248 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [ XXIII. 46. 
hath somewhat of the nature of a woman, that of she be too 
much wooed she ts the farther of. But this last is but a 
remedy for those whose tastes are. corrupted: let men 
rather build upon that foundation which is as a corner- 
stone of divinity and philosophy, wherein they join close, 
namely that same Primum querite. For divinity saith, 
Primum querite regnum Det, et ista omnia adjicientur vobis : 
and philosophy saith, Primum querite bona animi; cetera 
aut aderunt, aut non oberunt. And although the human 
foundation hath somewhat of the sands, as we see in 
M. Brutus, when he brake forth into that speech, 
Te colui (Virtus) ut rem; ast tu nomen inane es; 
yet the divine foundation is upon the rock. But this may 
serve for a taste of that knowledge which I noted as 
deficient. 
47. Concerning government, it is a part of knowledge 
secret and retired in both these respects in which things 
are deemed secret; for some things are secret because 
they are hard to know, and some because they are not 
fit to utter. We see all governments are obscure and 
invisible : 
Totamque infusa per artus 
Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet. , 
Such is the description of governments. We see the 
government of God over the world is hidden, insomuch 
as it seemeth to participate of much irregularity and con- 
fusion. The government of the soul in moving the body 
is inward and profound, and the passages thereof hardly 
to be reduced to demonstration. Again, the wisdom of 
antiquity {the shadows whereof are in the poets) in the 
description of torments and pains, next unto the crime of 
rebellion, which was the giants’ offence, doth detest the 
offence of futility, as.in Sisyphus and Tantalus. But this 
Samed 
