"A just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals 01 

 knowledges, and their sects ; their inventions, their diverse administra- 

 tions and managings ; their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depres- 

 sions, ohlivions, removes ; with the causes and occasions of them, and all 

 other events concerning learning, throughout all ages of the world ; I may 

 truly affirm to be wanting. 



" The use and end of which woi-k I do not so much design ibr curiosity, 

 or satisfaction of those that are the lovers of learning : hut chiefly for a 

 more serious and grave purpose ; which is this, in few words— that it will 

 make learned men more wise in the use and administration of learning." 



Bacon, Advancement of Learning, hook ii 



