18 THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 



turnin^ his pen to the advantage of his country and the 

 disadvantage of his own profession, make a kind of separation 

 between policy and government, and between arts and sciences, 

 in the verses so much renowned, attributing and challenging 

 the one to the Romans, and leaving and yielding the other to 

 the Grecians : Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento, 

 H&amp;lt;e tibi erunt artes, &c. So likewise we see that Anytus, the 

 accuser of Socrates, laid it as an article of charge and accusa 

 tion ao-ainst him, that he did, with the variety and power of 

 his discourses and disputations, withdraw young men from due 

 reverence to the laws and customs of their country, and that 

 he did profess a dangerous and pernicious science, which was 

 to make the worse matter seem the better, and to suppress 

 truth by force of eloquence and speech. 



(2) But these and the like imputations have rather a coun 

 tenance of gravity than any ground of justice : for experience 

 doth warrant that, both in persons and in times, there hath 

 been a meeting and concurrence in learning and arms, nourish 

 ing and excelling in the same men and the same ages, lor as 

 for men, there cannot be a better nor the like instance as of 

 that pair, Alexander the Great and Julius Csesar, the Dictator : 

 whereof the one was Aristotle s scholar in philosophy, and the 

 other was Cicero s rival in eloquence ; or if any man had rather 

 call for scholars that were great generals, than generals that 

 were great scholars, let him take^paminondas the Theban, or 

 Xenophon the Athenian ; whereof the one was the first that 

 abated&quot; the power of Sparta, and the other was the first that 

 made way to the overthrow of the monarchy of Persia. And 

 this concurrence is yet more visible in times than in persons, 

 by how much an age is greater object than a man. For 

 both in Eypt, Assyria, Persia, Grsecia, and Rome, the same 

 times that are most renowned for arms are likewise, most 

 admired for learning, so that the greatest authors and philo 

 sophers, and the greatest captains and governors, have lived m 

 the same ages. Neither can it otherwise be : for as m man the 

 ripeness of strength of the body and mind cometh much about 

 an a-^e save that the strength of the body corneth somewhat 

 the more early, so in states, arms and learning, whereof the 

 one correspondeth to the body, the other to the soul of man, 

 have a concurrence or near sequence in times. 



(3) And for matter of policy and government, that learning 

 should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very 

 improbable ; we see it is accounted an error to commit a 

 natural body to empiric physicians, which commonly have a 

 few pleasing receipts whereupon they are confident and adven- 



