LIB. I. 79, 80. 69 



summa ingenia illis temporibus ut plurimum ad res 

 civiles se applicuerunt, propter magnitudinem imperil 

 Romani, quod plurimorum hominum opera indigebat. 

 At ilia setas, qua naturalis philosophia apud Graecos 

 maxime florere visa est, particula fuit temporis minime 

 diuturna ; cum et antiquioribus temporibus septem illi, 

 qui sapientes nominabantur, omnes (prseter Thaletem) 

 ad moralem philosophiam et civilia se applicuerint ; et 

 posterioribus temporibus, postquam Socrates philoso 

 phiam de coelo in terras deduxisset 65 , adhuc magis 

 invaluerit moralis philosophia, et ingenia hominum a 

 naturali averterit. 



At ipsissima ilia periodus temporis, in qua inquisi- 

 tiones de natura viguerunt, contradictionibus et novo- 

 rum placitorum ambitioiie corrupta est, et inutilis red- 

 dita. Itaque quandoquidem per tres istas periodos 

 naturalis philosophia majorem in modum neglecta aut 

 impedita fuerit, nil mirum si homines parum in ea re 

 profecerint, cum omnino aliud egerint. 



LXXX. 



Accedit et illud, quod naturalis philosophia in iis 

 ipsis viris, qui ei incubuerint, vacantem et integrum 

 hominem, prscsertim his recentioribus temporibus, vix 



the hands of the civil power. Their voured to replace the subtle talk on 



Law, again, enjoined ri 8fl Trparreiv abstract questions, and the quib- 



KCI\ rivu&amp;gt;v direxfo-dai, having a posi- bling of the teachers of his day, by 



tive as well as a negative side. For the study of human life and its in- 



their &quot; State &quot; was also their terests, there was a kind of analogy 



&quot; Church.&quot; With us the positive between him and Bacon. The 



precepts are left to Religion ; and thought comes from Cicero s Tusc. 



Law now is almost restricted to the Disp. V. iv. 10. &quot; Socrates primus 



prohibitive side &quot; Quse lex non Philosophiam devocavit e ccelo, et 



jubet, permittit :&quot; with the ancients, in urbibus collocavit, et in domos 



as Aristotle says, 6 6 vopos ^ KC- etiam introduxit, et coegit de vita 



\fvfi,aTrayopfvei. See Bacon s Filum et moribus rebusque bonis et malis 



Labr. 6. qvucrere.&quot; 

 65 In so far as&amp;gt; Socrates endea- 



