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ings, and nob with weapons to fight, so we prefer that entry 

 of truth which comes peaceably, when the minds of men 

 capable of lodging so great a guest are signed as it were with 

 chalk, than that which comes with pugnacity, and forces its 

 way by contentions and controversies. Wherefore, having 

 gone through the two parts of philosophy that relate to God 

 and to Nature, we come to the third, which is man himself. 



rOTJETH BOOK, 



CHAPTEE I. 



Division of the Knowledge of Man into Human and Civil Philosophy. 

 Human Philosophy divided into the Doctrine of the Body and Soul. 

 The Construction of one General Science, including the Nature and 

 State of Man. The latter divided into the Doctrine of the Human 

 Person and the Connection of the Soul with the Body. Division of 

 the Doctrine of the Person of Man into that of his Miseries and Pre- 

 rogatives. Division of the Eelations between the Soul and the Body 

 into the Doctrines of Indications and Impressions. Physiognomy and 

 the Interpretation of Dreams assigned to the Doctrine of Indications. 



If any man, excellent king, shall assault or wound me for 

 any of these precepts, let him know that he infringes the 

 code of military honour ; for in addition to being under the 

 gracious protection of your Majesty, I do not begin the 

 fight, but am only one of those trumpeters of whom Homer 

 speaks, — 



ILaipers KrjpvKeg Atot; dyyfXoi, i^Sk Kal dv^puiv,^ — 



who pass inviolate even between enraged armies. Nor does 

 our trumpet summon men to tear one another in frenzied 

 combat, but rather to conclude a peace, that they who are 

 now divided may direct their united forces against nature 

 herself; and by taking her high towers and dismantling her 

 fortified holds, enlarge as far as God will permit the bor- 

 ders of man's dominion. We now come to the knowledge of 

 ourselves, whither we are directed by the ancients,^ which 



• Iliad, i. 334. «• Plato's Alcibiadea. 



