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* We have also houses of deceits of the senses, where 

 vre represent all manner of feats of juggling, false 

 apparitions, impostures and illusions, and their fallacies. 

 And surely you will easily believe that we, that have 

 BO many things truly natural which induce admiration, 

 could in a world of particulars deceive the senses if we 

 would disguise those things, and labour to make them 

 seem more miraculous. But we do hate all impostures 

 and lies, insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to 

 all our fellows, under pain of ignominy and fines, that 

 they do not show any natural work or thing adorned 

 or swelling, but only pure as it is, and without all 

 affectation of strangeness. 



These are, my son, the riches of Salomon s House. 



For the several employments and offices of our 

 fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign countries 

 under the names of other nations (for our own we 

 conceal), who bring us the books and abstracts, and 

 patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we 

 call Merchants of Light. 



We have three that collect the experiments which 

 are in all books. These we call Depredators. 



We have three that collect the experiments of all 

 mechanical arts, and also of liberal sciences, and also of 

 practises which are not brought into arts. These we 

 call Mystery-men. 



We have three that try new experiments, such as 

 themselves think good. These we call Pioneers or 

 Miners. 



We have three that draw the experiments of the 

 former four into titles and tables, to give the better 

 light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of 

 them. These we call Compilers. 



We have three that bend themselves, looking into 

 the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how 

 to draw out of them things of use and practice for man s 

 life and knowledge, as well for works as for plain 

 demonstration of causes, means of natural divinations, 

 and the easy and clear discovery of the virtues and parts 

 of bodies. These we call dowry-men or Benefactors. 



