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of the mutineers; but the soldiers broke open the prison 

 and released them. Upon which, Yibulenus thus har 

 angued the army: &quot;You,&quot; says he, &quot;have restored light 

 and life to these poor innocents; but who gives back life 

 to my brother, or my brother to me? He was sent to you 

 from the German army for a common good, and that man 

 murdered him last night, by the hands of his gladiators, 

 whom he keeps about him to murder the soldiers. Answer, 

 Blesus, where hast thou thrown his corpse? Even enemies 

 refuse not the right of burial. When I shall, with tears and 

 embraces, have performed my duty to him, command me 

 also to death; but let our fellow-soldiers bury us, who are 

 murdered only for our love to the legions.&quot; 8 With which 

 words, he raised such a storm of consternation and revenge 

 in the army, that unless the thing had presently appeared to 

 be all a fiction, and that the fellow never had a brother, the 

 soldiers might have murdered their leader; but he acted 

 the whole as a part upon the stage. And thus much for 

 the logical sciences. 



We now come to that portion of our treatise which we 

 have allotted to rational knowledge. Let no one, however, 

 think that we hold the received division of the sciences of 

 small account, because we have wandered out of the beaten 

 paths. In so digressing we have been influenced by a two 

 fold necessity First, to unite two methods, which both iu 

 their end and nature are altogether different, viz., the 

 ranging in the same class those things which are naturally 

 related to each other, and to throw into one heap all those 

 things which are likely to be called immediately into use. 

 Thus, as a secretary of a prince or of some civil department 

 ranges his papers according to their distinct heads treaties, 

 instructions, foreign and domestic letters each occupying 

 a separate corner of his study, and yet does not fail to col 

 lect in some particular cabinet those papers he is likely 

 to use together, so in this general cabinet of knowledge we 



3 Annal. i. 22. 



