ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 



CXXXlll 



The second book, after various preliminary observations, 

 and particularly upon the defects of universities, (6) of 

 which, from the supposition that they are formed rather 

 for the discovery of new knowledge than for diffusing 

 the knowledge of our predecessors, he, through life, seems 

 to have formed too high an estimate, he arranges and 

 adorns every species of history, (d) which he includes 

 within the province of memory, and every species of 

 poetry, (e) by which imagination can &quot; elevate the mind 

 from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying its own 

 divine essence:&quot; and, passing from poetry, by saying, 

 &quot; but it is not good to stay too long in the theatre : let 

 us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, 

 which we are to approach and view with more reverence 

 and attention,&quot; he proceeds to the investigation of every 

 species of philosophy, divine, natural, and human, of which, 

 from his analysis of human philosophy, or the science of 

 man, some conception may be formed of the extent and 

 perfection of the different parts of the work. 



(b) See note K at the end. 



(&amp;lt;f) The following is his Analysis of History : 



fl. Natural 



1. Different 

 Histories. 



fi 



2. Civil. . 



Of Creatures. 

 Of Marvels. 

 Of Arts. 



1. Fragments. $ ! Memorials. 

 ( 2. Antiquities. 



1. Biography. 

 1. Simple.^ 2. Chronicles. 



L.3. Ecclesiastical 



Memorials. 



Epistles. 



Apothegms. 



fl. 



fl. mpe. J 2. hronicle 

 Perfect. J [_3. Relations 



L2. Mixed. 



f 1 



ical. \ 2. 



u. 



The Church. 



Prophecy. 



Providence. 



fl. 



2. Append ices. { 2. 

 13. 



) 1. Narrative. 2. Representative. 3. Parabolical. 



