ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 175 



FOURTH BOOK 



CHAPTER I 



Division of the Knowledge of Man into Human and Civil Philosophy. 

 Human Philosophy divided into the Doctrine of the Body and Soul. 

 The Construction of one General Science, including the Nature and 

 State of Man. The latter divided into the Doctrine of the Human 

 Person and the Connection of the Soul with the Body. Division of 

 the Doctrine of the Person of Man into that of his Miseries and Pre 

 rogatives. Division of the Relations between the Soul and the Body 

 into the Doctrines of Indications and Impressions. Physiognomy and 

 the Interpretation of Dreams assigned to the Doctrine of Indications. 



IF ANY man, excellent king, shall assault or wound me 

 for any of these precepts, let him know that he in 

 fringes the code of military honor; for in addition to 

 being under the gracious protection of your Majesty, I 

 do not begin the fight, but am only one of those trumpeters 

 of whom Homer speaks 



Xcupere KTjpvAces Aios ayysA.ot, fjSe *cal avSpuf 



who pass inviolate even between enraged armies. Nor does 

 our trumpet summon men to tear one another in frenzied 

 combat, but rather to conclude a peace, that they who are 

 now divided may direct their united forces against nature 

 herself; and by taking her high towers and dismantling her 

 fortified holds, enlarge as far as Grod will permit the borders 

 of man s dominion. We nowcome to the knowledge of our 

 selves, whither we are directed by the ancients, 2 which 

 merits a closer examination, since the knowledge of him 

 self is to man the end and time of the sciences, of which! 



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nature only forms a portion. And here we must admonish 

 mankind, that all divisions of the sciences are to be under- 



1 Iliad, i. 334. Plato s Alcibiades. 



