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much as you have both place to practise it, and judgment 

 and leisure to look deeper into it than I have done. Herein 

 you must call to mind, &quot;Api^o*/ pev i/^wp. Though the argu 

 ment be not of great height and dignity, nevertheless it 

 is of great and universal use. And yet I do not see why, 

 to consider it rightly, that should not be a learning of 

 height which teacheth to raise the highest and worthiest 

 part of the mind. But, howsoever that be, if the world 

 take any light and use by this writing, I will the gratula- 

 tion be to the good friendship and acquaintance between 

 us two. And so recommend you to God s divine protection. 



With this letter he presented a tract upon &quot; Helps to 

 the Intellectual Powers,&quot; which contains similar observa 

 tions upon the importance of knowledge and improvement 

 of the Body, (d) 



From these suggestions, the germ of his opinions upon 

 the same subject in the Advancement of Learning, it 

 appears that he considered the object of education to be 

 knowledge and improvement of the body and of the mind. 



How far society has, after the lapse of two centuries, 

 concurred with him in these opinions, and, if he is not in 

 error, how far we have acted upon his suggestions, may 

 deserve a moment s consideration. 



Bacon arranges knowledge respecting the body(e) into 



(rf) See vol. i. p. 337. (e) Atlv. of Learning, vol. ii. p. 



158. 



