202 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [XXI. n. 



So the case was doubtful, and had opinion on both sides. 

 Again, we see when M. Brutus and Cassius invited to 

 a supper certain whose opinions they meant to feel, 

 whether they were fit to be made their associates, and 

 cast forth the question touching the killing of a tyrant 

 being an usurper, they were divided in opinion; some 

 holding that servitude was the extreme of evils, and others 

 that tyranny was better than a civil war : and a number of 

 the like cases there are of comparative duty. Amongst 

 which that of all others is the most frequent, where the 

 question is of a great deal of good to ensue of a small 

 injustice. Which Jason of Thessalia determined against 

 the truth: Aliqua sunt injuste facienda, ut multa juste fieri 

 tossint. But the reply is good, Auctorem pr&sentis jus- 

 titicB habes, sponsor em futures non hales. Men must pursue 

 things which are just in present, and leave the future to 

 the divine Providence. So then we pass on from this 

 general part touching the exemplar and description of 

 good. 



XXII. i. Now therefore that we have spoken of this 

 fruit of life, it remaineth to speak of the hus- 

 Decnltura bandry that belongeth thereunto : without 

 ammi. ... , 



which part the former seemeth to be no better 

 than a fair image, or statua, which is beautiful to contem 

 plate, but is without life and motion ; whereunto Aristotle 

 himself subscribeth in these words : Necesse est scilicet de 

 virtute dicere, et quid sit, ei ex quibus gtgnatur. Inutile 

 enim fere fuerit virtutem quidem nosse, acquirenda autem ejus 

 modos et mas ignorare. Non enim de virtute tantum, qua 

 specie sit, queer endum est, sed et quomodo sui copiam faciat: 

 utrumque enim volumus, et rem ipsam nosse, et ejus compotes 

 fieri: hoc autem ex voto non succedet, nisi sciamus et ex qui 

 bus et quomodo. In such full words and with such iteration 



