322 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



So in the discourse between Brutus, Cassius, and others, as 

 to the conspiracy against Caesar, the question was artfully 

 introduced whether it were lawful to kill a tyrant;&quot; the 

 company divided in their opinions about it, some saying 

 it was lawful, and that slavery was the greatest of evils; 

 others denying it, and asserting tyranny to be less destruc 

 tive than civil war; while a third kind, as if followers of 

 Epicurus, made it an unworthy thing that wise men should 

 endanger themselves for fools. But the cases of compara 

 tive duties are numerous, among which this question fre 

 quently occurs, whether justice may be strained for the 

 safety of one s country, or the like considerable good in 

 future? as to which Jason the Thessalian used to say, Some 

 things must be done unjustly, that many more may be done 

 justly. But the answer is ready Present justice is in our 

 power, but of future justice we have no security: let men 

 pursue those things which are good and just at present, 

 and leave futurity to Divine providence. 17 And thus much 

 for the doctrine of the image of good. 18 



CHAPTER III 



The Culture of the Mind divided into the Knowledge of Characteristic Differences 

 of Affections, of Remedies and Cures. Appendix relating to the Har 

 mony between the Pleasures of the Mind and the Body 



WE NEXT proceed to the cultivation of the mind, 

 without which the preceding part of morality is 

 no more than an image or beautiful statue, with 

 out life or motion. Aristotle expressly acknowledges as 



16 Pint. Life Brut. 1T Plutarch, Moral. Prsec. Gerend. Reip. i. 24. 



18 Such was the pretext of Titus Quintius Flaminius, who, perceiving that 

 the Achaean League, by which all the Grecian states were associated in one 

 grand confederation, imposed the principal obstacle to the arms of Rome, de 

 ceitfully alleged that his sole design was to free each individual state from the 

 thraldom of one dominant power, and leave it to the action of its own laws. 

 The sequel showed, however, that his policy was only an exemplification of the 

 old fable, for the untying the bundle was immediately followed by the subjuga 

 tion of each community. Ed. 



