ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. CXXXV 



These different subjects, exhibited with this perspicuity, 

 are adorned with beautiful illustration and imagery: as, 

 when explaining the doctrine of the will, divided into the 

 image of good or the exhibition of truth, and the culture 

 or Georgics of the mind, which is its husbandry or til 

 lage so as to love the truth which it sees, he says, &quot; The 

 neglecting these Georgics seemeth to me no better than to 

 exhibit a fair image or statue, beautiful to behold, but 

 without life or motion.&quot; (a) 



Having thus made a small globe of the intellectual 

 world, he, looking at the work he had made, and hoping 

 that it was good, thus concludes : &quot; And being now at 

 some pause, looking back into that I have passed through, 

 this writing seemeth to me, &amp;lt; si nunquam fallit imago, 

 (as far as a man can judge of his own work) not much 

 better than the noise or sound which musicians make 

 while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing 

 pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is 

 sweeter afterwards: so have I been content to tune the 

 instruments of the muses, that they may play that have 

 better hands. And surely, when I set before me the con 

 dition of these times, in which learning hath made her 



(a) The passage is as follows : &quot; In the handling of this 

 science, those which have written seem to me to have done 

 as if a man, that professeth to teach to write did only 

 exhibit fair copies of alphabets and letters joined, without 

 giving any precepts or directions for the carriage of the hand 

 and framing of the letters : so have they made good and fair 

 exemplars and copies, carrying the draughts and portrai 

 tures of good, virtue, duty, felicity; propounding them w r ell 

 described as the true objects and scopes of man s will and 

 desires; but how to attain these excellent marks, and how to 

 frame and subdue the will of man to become true and con 

 formable to these pursuits, they pass it over altogether,&quot; &c. 



