LIB. I. 3338. 19 



nostra ratio est; ut doctrina nostra animos idoneos et 

 capaccs subintret: confutationum enim nullus est usus, 

 ubi de principiis et ipsis notionibus, atque etiain do 

 form is demonstrationum dissentimus 35 . 



XXXVI. 



Restat vero nobis modus tradendi mms et simplex, 

 ut homines ad ipsa particularia et eorum series et ordi- 

 ues adducarnus; et ut illi rnrsus imperent sibi ad tern- 

 pus abnegationem notionum, et cum rebus ipsis con- 

 suescere inoipiant. 



XXXVII. 



Ratio eorum, qui acatalepsiam 3f) tenuerunt, et via 

 nostra, initiis suis quodammodo consentiunt ; exitu im- 

 mensuin disjunguntur et oj)ponuntur. Ilii enim niliil 

 seiri posse simpliciter asserunt ; uos, non multum seiri 

 ]&amp;gt;osse in natura, ea, qua: nunc in usu est, via : vcrum 

 illi exinde auctoritatem scnsus et intellcctus destnuint ; 

 nos auxilia iisdem excogitamus et subministramus. 



XXXVIII. 



Idola et notiones falsa3, quse intellectum human um 

 jam occuparunt, atque in eo alte hcerent, non soluni 



hlances rather than differences (cf. ears. The word occurs in Cic. ad 



I. 55.) was not fit for a controver- Att. xiii. 19. It would properly 



sialist. He loved to discover relations be applied to the Academics who 



and connections between things, (of denied the possibility of all know- 



this his often fanciful metaphors and ledge (nil seiri posse) rather than 



similes are signs,) not to attack to the Sceptics, who, according to 



others, or to mark off lines of dis- Sextus Emp., neither asserted nor 



tinction. Cf. infr. Aph. 128. denied, but doubted. The word for 



35 They who differ on first prin- Scepticism is eVo^. The Sceptics 

 ciples cannot argue a thing which did not fall into the snare of &quot; dog- 

 many forget who dispute without matising unbelief&quot; as the later Aca- 

 looking into the full depth of their demy did: cf. I. 67, where Bacon 

 difference from others. confounds Pyrrho with the New Aca- 



;iti He translates &quot; Acatalepsia&quot; in demy. And it may be added, that 



the Advancement of Learning, by practically people refuse to distin- 



&quot; Incomprehensibleness.&quot; But this guish between the Academy and the 



word (besides its unwieldiness) does Sceptics, classing both under the 



not convey the exact sense to our latter name. 



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