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whereupon Dionysius stayed and gave him the hearing, 

 and granted it; and afterward some person, tender on 

 the behalf of philosophy, reproved Aristippus that he 

 would offer the profession of philosophy such an indig 

 nity as for a private suit to fall at a tyrant s feet : but he 

 answered, // was not his fault, but it was the fault of 

 Dionysius, that had his ears in his feet. Neither was it 

 accounted weakness but discretion in him that would not 

 dispute his best with Adrianus Caesar ; excusing himself, 

 That it was reason to yield to him that commanded thirty 

 legions. These and the like applications and stooping to 

 points of necessity and convenience cannot be disallow-] 

 ed; for though they may have some outward baseness/ 

 yet in a judgement truly made they are to be accounted 

 submissions to the occasion and not to the person. 



IV. i. Now I proceed to those errors and vanities 

 which have intervened amongst the studies themselves 

 of the learned, which is that which is principal and 

 proper to the present argument ; wherein my purpose is 

 not to make a justification of the errors, but by a censure 

 and separation of the errors to make a justification of 

 that which is good and sound, and to deliver that from 

 the aspersion of the other. For we see that it is the 

 manner of men to scandalize and deprave that which 

 retaineth the state and virtue, by taking advantage upon 

 that which is corrupt and degenerate : as the heathens 

 in the primitive church used to blemish and taint the 

 Christians with the faults and corruptions of heretics. 

 But nevertheless I have no meaning at this time to make 

 any exact animadversion of the errors and impediments 

 in matters of learning, which are more secret and remote 

 from vulgar opinion, but only to speak unto such as do 

 fall under or near unto a popular observation. 



