210 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



FIFTH BOOK 

 CHAPTER 1 



Division of the Use and Objects of the Faculties of the Soul into Logic and 



Ethics. Division of Logic into the Arts of Invention, Judgment, 



Memory and Tradition. 



THE doctrine of the human understanding, and of the 

 human will, excellent king, are like twins; for the 

 purity of illumination, and the freedom of will, be 

 gan and fell together: nor is there in the universe so inti 

 mate a sympathy, as that between truth and goodness. The 

 more shame for men of learning, if in knowledge they are 

 like the winged angels, but in affections like the crawling 

 serpents, having their minds indeed like a mirror; but a 

 mirror foully spotted. 



The doctrine of the use and objects of the mental facul 

 ties has two parts, well known and generally received; viz., 

 logic and ethics. Logic treats of the understanding and 

 reason, and ethics of the will, appetite, and affections; the 

 one producing resolutions, the other actions. The imagina 

 tions, indeed, on both sides, performs the office of agent, or 

 ambassador, and assists alike in the judicial and ministerial 

 capacity. Sense commits all sorts of notions to the imagi 

 nation, and the reason afterward judges of them. In like 

 manner reason transmits select and approved notions to the 

 imagination before the decree is executed: for imagination 

 always precedes and excites voluntary motion, and is there 

 fore a common instrument both to the reason and the will, 

 only it has two faces: that turned toward reason bearing 

 the effigy of truth; but that toward action the effigy of 

 goodness: yet they are faces: 



&quot;quales decet esse sororum.&quot; l 



1 Ovid, Metam. ii. 14. 



