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we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which 

 hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or 

 distributively ; the other congregate, or in society. So as 

 human philosophy is either simple and particular, or con 

 jugate and civil. Humanity particular consisteth of the 

 same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of know 

 ledges which respect the body, and of knowledges that 

 respect the mind. But before we distribute so far, it is 

 good to constitute. For I do take the consideration in 

 general, and at large, of human nature to be fit to be 

 emancipate and made a knowledge by itself: not so much 

 in regard of those delightful and elegant discourses which 

 have been made of the dignity of man, of his miseries, of 

 his state and life, and the like adjuncts of his common 

 and undivided nature ; but chiefly in regard of the know 

 ledge concerning the sympathies and concordances be 

 tween the mind and body, which being mixed cannot be 

 properly assigned to the sciences of either. 



2. This knowledge hath two branches : for as all 

 leagues and amities consist of mutual intelligence and 

 mutual offices, so this league of mind and body hath 

 these two parts ; how the one discloseth the other, and 

 how the one worketh upon the other; discovery and 

 impression. The former of these hath begotten two 

 arts, both of prediction or prenotion ; whereof the one 

 is honoured with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other 

 of Hippocrates. And although they have of later time 

 been used to be coupled with superstitious and fantastical 

 arts, yet being purged and restored to their true state, 

 they have both of them a solid ground in nature, and a 

 profitable use in life. The first is physiognomy, which 

 discovereth the disposition of the mind by the lineaments 

 of the body. The second is the exposition of natural 



