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sides delivering the message. Thus, Aristotle well observes, 

 that the mind has the same command over the body, as the 

 master over the slave ; but reason over the imagination, the 

 same that a magistrate has over a free citizen, who may come 

 to rule in his turn.fr For in matters of faith and religion, the 

 imagination mounts above reason. Not that divine illumina- 

 tion is seated in the imagination, but, as in divine virtues, grace 

 makes use of the motions of the will ; so in illumination it 

 makes use of the motions of the imagination ; whence religion 

 solicits access to the mind, by similitudes, types, parables, 

 dreams, and visions. Again, the imagination has a consider- 

 able sway in persuasion, insinuated by the power of eloquence : 

 for when the mind is soothed, enraged, or any way drawn aside 

 by the artifice of speech, all this is done by raising the imagina- 

 tion; which, now growing unruly, not only insults over, but, 

 in a manner, offers violence to reason, partly by blinding, partly 

 by incensing it. Yet there appears no cause why we should 

 quit our former division : for in general, the imagination does 

 not make the sciences ; since even poetry, which has been al- 

 ways attributed to the imagination, should be esteemed rather 

 a play of wit than a science. As for the power of the imagina- 

 tion in natural things, we have already ranged it under the doc- 

 trine of the soul ; and for its affinity and rhetoric, we refer it to 

 the art of rhetoric. 



This part of human philosophy which regards logic, is disa- 

 greeable to the taste of many, as apearing to them no other than 

 a net, and a snare of thorny subtilty. For as knbwledge is 

 justly called the food of the mind, so in the desire and choice 

 of this food, most men have the appetite of the Israelites in the 

 wilderness, who, weary of manna, as a thin though celestial 

 diet, would have gladly returned to the fleshpots : thus gener- 

 ally those sciences relish best that are subjective, and nearer 

 related to flesh and blood; as civil history, morality, politics, 

 whereon men's affections, praises, and fortunes turn, and are 

 employed, whilst the other dry light offends, and dries up the 

 soft and humid capacities of most men. But of we would rate 

 things according to their real worth, the rational sciences 

 are the keys to all the rest ; for as the hand is the instrument 

 of instruments, and the mind the form of forms, so the rational 

 sciences are to be esteemed the art of arts. Nor do they direct 

 only, but also strengthen and confirm; as the use and habit 



