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unus ant alter fortasse judicii libertate uti sustinuerit, 

 is sibi soli lianc operam imponere possit ; ab aliorum 

 ante m consortio niliil capiet utilitatis. Sin et hoc 

 toleraverit, tainen in capessenda f ortuna industriam 

 hanc et magnanimitatem sibi non levi impedimento 

 fore experietnr. Studia enim lioininum in ejusmodi 

 locis in quonindani auctornin scripta, veluti in carce- 

 rcs, conclusa sunt ; a quibus si quis dissentiat, continue 

 ut homo turbidus, et reruin novaruni cupidus corri- 

 pitur 5 . At ma-i iium eerte disrrimen inter res civile*, 

 et artes : non enim idem pericnlnin a novo motu, et a 

 nova luce. Vernin in rebus civilibns inutatio etiam in 

 melius suspecta est ob pertnrbationem ; cum civilia 

 auctoritate, consensu, f aina, et opinione, non demon- 

 stratione, nitantur. In artibus autem et scientiis, tan- 

 (|iiam in metalli f odinis, omnia novis operibus et nlte- 

 rioribus progressibus circunistrepere debent. Atque 



^ It is to 1)0 reunited that such mentioned above hinders the satis- 

 a work as Aldrich s &quot; Rudiments&quot; factory study of a most useful 

 should still be the only text-hook on branch of mental Philosophy, 

 Logic acknowledged in one I niver- gives a false impression of it, and 

 Kity. &quot; I cannot,&quot; says D.Stewart, disgusts men with that which it 

 (Phil, of the Human Mind, at the professes to teach. Men learn from 

 conclusion of the work,) &quot;dismiss it a few barren &quot;laws of thought,&quot; 

 the subject, without remarking, as without being taught to reflect on 

 a fact which at some future period what tltouyliti*, and what is the con- 

 will figure in Literary History, that stitution of the Mind, 

 two hundred years after the date of &quot; Ut homo turbidus.&quot; Such 

 Bacon s philosophical works, the was the outcry against Galileo, 

 antiquated routine of study origi- against Locke, and, to a certain 

 nally prescribed in times of scho- extent, against this very work of 

 lastic barbarism and of Popish su- Bacon s. It was thought to have a 

 perstition, should, in so many uni- great tendency to produce &quot; danger- 

 versities, be suffered still to stand ous revolutions.&quot; and to &quot; subvert&quot; 

 in the way of improvements recom- governments and overturn Religion, 

 mended at once by the present state Among others, one Dr. Stubbe de- 

 of the Sciences, and by the order nounced the whole race of Experi- 

 which Nature follows in developing mentalists with the happy nickname 

 the intellectual faculties.&quot; Although of &quot; the Bacon-faced generation.&quot; 

 this censure is now partly obsolete, Account of the Nov. Org., Lib. of 

 it cannot he denied that the work Useful Knowledge, ii. p. 37. 



