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and to play on the lute. He approved of "so 

 much logic as to enable men to distinguish be- 

 tween truth and falsehood and help them to 

 discover fallacies, sophisms and that which the 

 schoolmen call vicious arguments" ; and this, he 

 considered, should be followed by "some good 

 sum of philosophy." He held it also requisite 

 to study geography, and this in no narrow 

 sense, laying stress upon the methods of gov- 

 ernment, religions and manners of the several 

 states as well as on their relationships inter se 

 and their policies. Though he advocated an 

 acquaintance with "the use of the celestial 

 globes," he did "not conceive yet the knowledge 

 of judicial astronomy so necessary, but only 

 for general predictions; particular events 

 being neither intended by nor collected out of 

 the stars." Arithmetic and geometry he 

 thought fit to learn, as being most useful for 

 keeping accounts and enabling a gentleman to 

 understand fortifications. 



Perhaps the most characteristic feature of 

 Lord Herbert's acquirements was his knowl- 

 edge of medicine and subjects allied thereto. 

 He conceived it a "fine study, and worthy a 



