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ciateth the remotest regions in participation of their fruits, 

 how much more are letters to be valued, which, like ships, 

 pass through the vast ocean of time, and convey knowledge 

 and inventions to the remotest ages? Nay, some of the 

 philosophers who were most immersed in the senses, and 

 denied the immortality of the soul, yet allowed that what 

 ever motions the spirit of man could perform without the 

 organs of the body might remain after death, which are 

 only those of the understanding, and not of the affections, 

 so immortal and incorruptible a thing did knowledge appear 

 to them. 133 And thus having endeavored to do justice to 

 the cause of knowledge, divine and human, we shall leave 

 Wisdom to be justified of her children. Ias 



SECOND BOOK 

 CHAPTER 1 



General Divisions of Learning into History, Poetry, and Philosophy, in re 

 lation to the Three Faculties of the Mind Memory, Imagination, and 

 Reason. The same Distribution applies to Theology 



TO THE KING 



IT IS befitting, excellent Hng, that those who are blessed 

 with a numerous offspring, and wno have a pledge in 

 their descendants that their name will be carried down 

 to posterity, should be keenly alive to the welfare of future 

 times, in which their children are to perpetuate their power 

 and empire. Queen Elizabeth, with respect to her celibacy, 

 was rather a sojourner than an inhabitant of the present 

 world, yet she was an ornament to her age and prosperous 



122 The merits of learning have been incidentally shown by many, but ex 

 pressly by few. Among the latter may be included Johannes Wouwerius de 

 Polymathia, G-ulielmus Budseus de Philologia, Morhof in &quot;Hist. Polyhistor. , &quot; and 

 Stollius in &quot;Introduct. in Historiam Literariam. &quot; To these may be added, 

 Baron Spanheim, M. Perault, Sir William Temple, Gibbon and Milton. .& 



123 Matt. xi. 19. 



