The Platform of the Defign. 



Reporting 

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LIB. I. THE DIGNITY OF LEARNING. 



rDefire of Knowledge the firft fin, 



'"D/w«e/^KnowIedge an Infinite : an Anxious thing. 



j Cap. I. ^Learning the caufe of Herefie and Atheifm. 



Objeaed^ Anjwered. 



Learning makes men unapt for Arms. 

 Difables men for Civil Affairs. 

 Particular indilpofitions pretended. 



Objeded^ Anfveeredi 



^Scarcity of means. 

 ~ Fortutus •< Priv.atene(i of life. 



I^Meannefi of iraployment. 



''Difcre- j 

 ditet ^ 

 from 



rDiOio- I 

 nours 8c i 

 Deroga- J 

 tions of I 

 Learning 1 

 in the | 



Learmd 

 Mens , 

 Cap. 3. 



Manners 



► Too incompatible with the times. 

 lToo (enfible of the common good. 

 [Not applying to Perfons of quality. 

 I A failing in points of behaviour. 

 ^Grols flattery pradiled by forae. 



X^StHd^es'm (bme impertinents. 



rPhantaftical Learning. 

 D^empers in Jiudies"^ Contentious Learning. 

 Cap.4. ^Delicate Learning, 



. fAfFeftibn to two ^xiiQmts^Antiqmty^ Novslty, 



' A diftruft that any thing New fhould now be found out. 



Peccdnt 



A conceit that the beft Opinions ftill prfevail, 



A too peremptory redndion of Sciences into Methods. 



A negled of Vrifftitivs Philofophy. 



H««ror/«i A divorce of the Intelledi from the Objeft. 



Cap.5. A contagion of Knowledge from particular inclinations. 

 An impatience of fufpenle i hafte to Pofitive Aflertion. 

 A Magiftral manner of Tradition of Knowledge, 

 Aim of Writersj liluftration, not Propagation. 

 cEnd ofStudies, CuriofityjPleafurejProfitjProraotionjd^'C 



rWi(Hom of God. § Angels of Illumination. 

 fDivme-^ Firftlighr.§ /^^4/ws'.§ ^/'e/'s^ContemplationjC^r. 

 UonoTSj.and Prero- [Cap. 6. {The Learning o^AfofeSi Job^, Solbvton^ &c. 

 j gatives of Leajning^ 



_fi:om Arguments 



tr Inventors of Arts confecrated as Gods. 

 HH>f/.afte}CWil Eftates advanc'd by Learning. 

 r^cap./.S. *^rhe concurrency of Arms and Letters. 



Cxije Dominion. § Donations of Learning. 



[K 2] LIB.II. 



