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the question “utrum primus homo habuerit scientiam omnem,” after 
stating objections alleged against the affirmative opinion, thus com- 
mences his refutation of them. “Sed contra est quod ipse imposuit 
nomina animalibus, ut dicitur Gen. 2. Nomina autem debent naturis 
rerum congruere ; Ergo Adam scivit naturas omnium animalium, et pari 
ratione habuit omnium aliorum scientiam.”’ Comp. also the treatise 
Of the Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 219, ed. Spedding and 
Ellis): ‘For behold it was not that pure light of natural knowledge, 
whereby man in paradise was able to give unto every living creature 
a name according to his propriety, which gave occasion to the fall; 
but it was an aspiring desire to attain to that part of moral knowledge 
which defineth of good and evil, whereby to dispute God’s command- 
ments and not to depend upon the revelation of his will, which was the 
original temptation.’ [33] Gen. ii. 19, 20. 
P. 6. [11] Eccl. i. 8. [13 &c.j Comp. Of the Interpretation of 
Nature, p. 220. [18, 31] Eccl. iii. 11. 
P. 7. [6] he doth in another place rule over: Lat. satis clare alibi 
docet, [7] Prov. xx. 27. [12 &c.] Comp. Of the Interpretation of 
Nature (Works, vol. iii. p. 222). [19] 1 Cor. viii. 1. [21] 1 Cor. xiii. 1. 
[31] Col. ii. 8.. 
P. 8. [12] Eccl. ii. 13,14. [15] roundeth about: Lat. oberrat. [20] 
Comp. Plato, Theeet. i. p. 155 d; Arist. Metaph.i. 2. Hesiod (Theog. 
780) makes Iris the daughter of Thaumas. [26] Heraclitus the pro- 
found: Lat. Heraclitus ille obscurus. [27] aiyt énph Yuxh copwrary 
kara Tov “Hpaxdecrov éowev. Plut. De Esu Carnium, i. 6. 4. Schow 
conjectured that ady) énpi) puvxi) copwrdty was a corruption of aby 
Yuxt) copwrdrn: ~nph having been in the first instance a gloss upon 
avn and afterwards adopted into the text; a change which necessitated 
the further alteration of ain to atyn to make sense. Stobceus, ed. 
Gaisford, v. 120. The proverb is again quoted by Bacon, Ess. xxvi. p. 
112: ‘ Heraclitus saith well, in one of his eenigmaes; Dry light is ever 
the best, And certaine it is, that the light, that a man receiveth, by 
counsell from another, is drier, and purer, then that which com- 
meth from his owne understanding, and iudgement; which is ever 
infused and drenched in his affections and customes.’ Comp. Apoph. 
268; Adv. of Learning, p. 149, 1. 3. [31]—p. 9. [11] Compare the 
corresponding passage Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 218. 
P. 9. [5, 6] broken knowledge: ‘ contemplation broken off, or losing 
itself” Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 218. [6] one of Plato’s 
school: Philo Judzeus, De Somniis, p. 577 E. (ed. Turnebus, Franc. 
1691). [7] Comp. Apoph. 120. [14] A reference to the fable of 
Icarus. [15 &c.] Comp. Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 219- 
[20] Job xiti. 7,9. [26 &c.] Comp. Ess. xvi. p. 64: ‘It is true, that 
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