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faculty of reason : so as poesy had his true place. As 

 for the power of the imagination in nature, and the 

 manner of fortifying the same, we have mentioned it 

 in the doctrine De Anima, whereunto most fitly it 

 belongeth. And lastly, for imaginative or insinuative 

 reason, which is the subject of rhetoric, we think it 

 best to refer to the arts of reason. So therefore we 

 ! content ourselves with the former division, that human 

 philosophy, which respecteth the faculties of the mind 

 of man, hath two parts, rational and moral. 



2. The part of human philosophy which is rational, 

 is of all knowledges, to the most wits, the least delight 

 ful, and seemeth but a net of subtility and spinosity. 

 ; For as it was truly said, that knowledge is pabulum 

 \ animi ; so in the nature of men s appetite to this food, 

 most men are of the taste and stomach of the Israelites 

 4 in the desert, that would fain have returned ad ollas 

 } carnium, and were weary of manna ; which, though it 

 were celestial, yet seemed less nutritive and comfort 

 able. So generally men taste well knowledges that are 

 i drenched in flesh and blood, civil history, morality, 

 ; policy, about the which men s affections, praises, 

 I fortunes do turn and are conversant. But this same 

 i ; lumen siccum doth parch and offend most men s watery 

 ) : and soft natures. But to speak truly of things as they 

 : are in worth, rational knowledges are the keys of all 

 other arts : for as Aristotle saith aptly and elegantly, 

 j ; * That the hand is the instrument of instruments, and 

 DJ the mind is the form of forms ; so these be truly said 

 *J to be the art of arts. Neither do they only direct, but 

 b f , likewise confirm and strengthen : even as the habit of 

 IB | shooting doth not only enable to shoot a nearer shoot, 

 but also to draw a stronger bow. 



3. The arts intellectual are four in number ; divided 

 iccording to the ends whereunto they are referred : for 

 & : nan s labour is to invent that which is sought or pro- 

 ,01 pounded ; or to judge that which is invented ; or to 

 so etain that which is judged ; or to deliver over that 

 bn vhich is retained. So as the arts must be four : art 

 tfc )f inquiry or invention : art of examination or judge- 



