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powerful than the love of truth, () would not have escaped 

 his notice. 



In this year he also published his History of Life and Life and 

 Death, which, of all his works, is one of the most extra 

 ordinary, both for the extent of his views, and the minute 

 accuracy with which each part is investigated. It is ad 

 dressed, not, to use his own expression, &quot; to the Adonis s 

 of literature, but to Hercules s followers ; that is, the more 

 severe and laborious inquirers into truth. &quot; (b) 



Upon his entrance, in the Advancement of Learning, on 

 the science of human nature, he says, &quot; The knowledge of 

 man, although only a portion of knowledge in the continent 

 of nature, is to man the end of all knowledge :&quot; (c) and, in 

 furtherance of this opinion, he explains that the object of 

 education ought to be knowledge and improvement of the 

 Body and the Mind.(J) 



Of the importance of knowledge of the body, that, Body. 

 &quot; while sojourning in this wilderness, and travelling to 

 the land of promise, our vestments should be preserved,&quot; 



(a) &quot; Great is Diana of the Ephesians.&quot; New Testament. &quot;The Pope 

 said he could catch no fish, if the waters were clear.&quot; Fuller. &quot; Man 

 would contend that two and two did not make four if his interests were 

 affected by this position.&quot; &quot; Agnus was the only combination which the 

 wolf, learning to spell, could make of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet.&quot; 



Although the objections of intellect and of ignorance may, possibly, be 

 traced to a love of truth and of the public weal : the objections of interest 

 always originate in self, and are movable only by removing the cause. The 

 English ambassador, who, upon his return from Rome, being asked by 

 Queen Caroline, &quot; Why he had not attempted to make a convert of the 

 Pope,&quot; wisely answered, &quot; Madam, I had nothing better to offer to his 

 Holiness.&quot; 



(6) Advancement of Learning. 



(c) See vol. ii. p. 153, and vol. viii. p. 204. Haec scientia homini pro 

 fine est scientiarum : at naturae ipsius portio tantum. 



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