22 Of the Advancement of Learning. L i e. f . 



Ariftor, /.riiiotk. And therefore although the pofition hegood^Oportct drfccK- 

 Soph Tb f^i^^ ^f^^^l^f^-y yet it mud be coupled with this, Oporictjam eclo&iim ju- 

 1. " dicio Jho uti. For Difciples owe unto Mafters , only a tewporarj be- 



l/cf, and a fufpenlion of their judgment, until they be fully inftrufted, 

 and not an abfolutereljgnation of their liberty, and a perpetual capti- 

 vity of their judgements. Therefore, to conclude this point, I will fay 

 no more but this. Let great Authors jo huve their due , as rvc do 

 f70t .derogate from Tituc^ ivhich is the Author of Authors and Parent of 

 Truth. 



Chap. V. 



Peccant Humours in Learning. I, Extrer/ic affeBiov to two extrewcs^ 

 Antiquity, Novelty. II. A dijirujl^ that any thing Kcrv^ poiildnorv 



■ be found out. III. That of all SeHs and Opinions:, the beji h.^th ftill 

 prevailed. IV. An ever early redudion of Knowledge into Arts 

 and Methods. V. ^4 ^/f^/e^flf Primitive Philofophy. VI. A Di- 

 vorce of the InteUeti from the OhjeVi. VII. Infc&ion of Knowledge 

 in general from individual inclinations. VIII. An impatience of 

 Doubt:, ha^ to Afjertion. IX. A /l/agijiral manner of Tradition of 

 Knowledge. X. Aim of writers, lUiiJlration, not Propagation of 

 Knowledge. XI. End ofjiudies, Curioflty, rleafureS:, Proji't, Prefer* 

 taents.. 8cc. 



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*Hushavc we at length gone over three Diftempers or Difeafes of 

 Learnings befides the which, there are other, x^thtx peccant Hu- 

 mours, than confirmed Difeafes, which neverthelefs are not fo fecret and 

 intrinfique, but that they fall under a popular iinle and rtprehenfion, 

 and therefore are not to be palled over. 



I. The firO^of thefe is an extreme affeUion of two extremities, Anti- 

 tjtnty and Novelty 5 wherein the daughters ofTime, do take after the Fa- 

 ther j for as Time dcvoureth his children, fothefe, one of themfeeketh 

 to deprefb the other 5 while Antiquity envieth there (hould be new Ad" 

 ditions :, and Novelty can not be content to add things recent, but it 

 muft deface and rejeO; the old. Surely the advice of the Prophet is the 

 true direction in this cafe, Batejuper vias antiquas d^ videtc qiitcnam fit 



Jercra.5. "^'^ rcHa &■ b;>na d^ ambulate in ea. Antiquity de(erveth that reverence, 

 that mcnrhould make a ftay a while, and (land thereupon, and look 

 about to difcovcr which is the bed way j but when the dilcovery is well 

 taken, dien not to reft there, but cheerfully to make progreffion. lu- 

 ' deed to fpeak truly, AntiquitasJeculi,juvcntnsAIundi, Certainly our 

 times are the Ancient times, when the world is now Ancient, and not 

 thofe which we count Ancient, ordine retrogrado, by a computation 

 backward from our own times. 



II. An other error induced by the former is, a fufpition and diffidence^ 

 that anythingfiovldbe now to be found out, which the world Jl)ould have 



^.&^i^a ^''fi and pail over fo long time : as if the fame objedion might be made 

 lib. I. ' toTime, wherewith I//<7.?« reproacheth Jupiter, and other the Hea- 

 then 



