NOTE O. [xxix] 



away the aspersion, that has scandalously cast on the profes 

 sion of the law, that it is an enemy to learning 1 and the civil 

 arts. To shew the falsehood of this reproach, I might instance 

 in many judges and counsellors of all ages, who have been the 

 ornaments of the sciences, as well as of the bar, and courts of 

 justice. But it is enough to declare, that my lord Bacon was 

 a lawyer, and that these eminent officers of the law have com 

 pleted this foundation of the Royal Society, which was a work 

 well becoming the largeness of his wit to devise, and the great 

 ness of their prudence to establish. 



