I B. I. Of the Advancement of Learning. 7 



ffiiNcls of the- youth J and at MNiirviires brh?^ in an alteration of tht munncn 

 and aijionts of the State. This fame conceit or humor mov'd rirqil^prG' 

 ferring the honour of his country, before the reputation of his own 

 Profellionj to make a kind of feparation between the Arts of Policy^ and 

 the Arts of Literature, challenging the one to the Romans^ yielding the 

 xht oxhcx to ihe Grecians, in theverfes fo much renowned, 



Jj »tj I.IW » V-ll-wl HJ lliVJV.lJ IV-UVJ^V) IIV^.,, 



Tu regere ir/iperio popitlos Romanc memtnto^ Virgil, 



Hdb tibi erttnt Artes . — . "' * 



And we (ee that ^wyf^a- the accufer of <?<70'^fc/j laid it ds an article of p'-'^^^; 

 charge and accufation againft him, that he did with the variety and ^"^ " °'^" 

 power of difcourles and difputation^ cmba(e,in the minds of young men, 

 the Authority and Reverence of the Laws and Cuftoms of their Coun- 

 try j and that he did profels a pernicious and daiigetous Science, where- • 

 in, whoever was inlirufted, might make the worfe matter feem the bet- 

 ter, and to fuppreft Truth by force of Eloquence. 



ir. But thefe and the like imputations have rather a countenance of 

 Gravity, than any fincerity of Truth : For experience doth v.'itnels that 

 the felf-farae perfons, and the felf-fame times, have flourilht \<^xhQ glory 

 of Arms and Learning. As for men, we may inftancein that noble pair 

 of Emperors Alexander the Create and Julius Ciefar the Dictator j the one 

 Was Arjjiotlc's Scholar in Philofophy^ the other Cicero's Rival in Elo- 

 quence. But if any man had rather call for Scholars that have become 

 great Generals, than Generals that were great Scholars, let him take 

 Epanrinondas the Theban, or Xenophon the Athenian 3 whereof the one 

 Was the firft that abated the power of Spart^i, and the other vvas the.firft 

 that made way to the overthrow of thQ Monarchy of Perfia. And this 

 cdnjnn^ionof Arms and Letters, is yet more vifible in times than in per- 

 (bns, by how much an Age is a greater objeft than A Man : For the felf- 

 lame times with the ^Sgyptians.-, Afyrians, Per(taas, Grecians aind Romans, 

 that are moft renowned for Arms, are likewife mdft admired for Learn- 

 ing ^ fo that the graveft Auftors and Philofophers, thegreateO: Captains 

 iand Governors have lived in the lame Ages. Neither indeed can it o- 

 thcrwife be , for as in man the ripenefsof the ftrength of the body and 

 the mind comes much about one age, fave that the ftrength of the body 

 conies fomewhat the more early ^ lb in States, the glory of Arms and 

 TLearning (whereof the one correfpondeth to the body, the other to the 

 foul of man) have a concurrence, of a near fequence of Time. 



III. Now for Matter of Policy and Government, that Learning fhould 

 rather be an impediment than an adjn^ent thtven^to is a thing very im- 

 probable. We all confefs that it is an unadviled aft to commit a natural 

 Body, ^nd the cure of Health -, to Emperiqne Phyftians, who com- 

 monly have a few receipts which feem to them to be univerfal Reme- 

 dies 5 whereupon they are confident and adventurous, when yet they 

 "neither know the caufes of Difeales, nor the Complexions of Patients, 

 nor the peril of Symptomes,nor the Method of Cures. We fecit alike er- 

 ror in thofe, who for expedition of their Caufes and Suits rely upon pet- 

 ty Advocates and. Lawyers, which are only men of Praftice, and not 

 grounded in their Books, who are many times ealily furpriz'd, when a 

 tiew cafe falls out bcfides the common Road of their experience : So by" 



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