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&quot; ing and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse for a 

 &quot; wandering and variable mind to walk up and 

 &quot; down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for 

 &quot; a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or 

 &quot; commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or 

 &quot; a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, 

 &quot; for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man s 

 &quot; estate.&quot; 



If the intricacies of a court are neither disco 

 vered nor illustrated with the same happiness as 

 the intricacies of philosophy, &quot; because the distribu- 

 &quot; tions and partitions of knowledge are not like 

 &quot; several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch 

 &quot; but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, 

 &quot; that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and 

 &quot; quantity of entireness and continuance, before it 

 &quot; come to discontinue and break itself into arms 

 &quot; and boughs ; therefore it is good, before we enter 

 &quot; into the former distribution, to erect and consti- 

 &quot; tute one universal science, by the name of Phi- 

 &quot; losophia Prima, primitive or summary philosophy, 

 &quot; as the main and common way, before we come 

 &quot; where the ways part and divide themselves.&quot; 



&quot; That it be a receptacle for all such profita- 

 &quot; ble observations and axioms a fall not within the 

 &quot; compass of any of the special parts of philosophy 

 &quot;or sciences, but are more common and of a higher 

 &quot; stage. Is not the precept of a musician, to fall from 

 &quot; a discord or harsh accord upon a concord or sweet 

 &quot; accord, alike true in affection ! Is not the trope of 



