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but it is theftirringofthe earth about the rootj and the application of 

 new mould, or you do nothing. Neither is it to be pafled over in ^' 

 lence, that this dedicating ofColkdges and Societies, only to the nfe of 

 Trofcjpiry Learnings hath.^ not only, been an enemy to the growth ofScien' 

 ces 5 but hath redounded liksvpife to the prejudice of States and Goner n^ 

 ments : For hence it commonly falls out that Princes, when they woulel 

 make choice of Minifters fit for the Affairs of State, find about therh 

 ftich a marvellous (blitude of able men j becaufe there is no education 

 Collecriate defign'd to this end, where fuch as are fram'd and fitted by 

 nature thereto, might givethemfelves chiefly to Hijiories, Modern Lan^ 

 guages. Books and difcourfes of Policy^ that fothey might come more a- 

 bleand better furnim't to fervice of States 



§ hwdhQCiMk Founders of Colledges do Plant, and Founders of Le~ 

 &urers do ivater, it followeih now in order to fpeak of the Defefts 

 which are in publick Lefturcs i thefMalnefofJiipends(GfptciaUy with 

 us) ajjigned to Readers of Arts or ofProfejJlons : For it doth much import 

 to the ProgrcJJioa and Proficiency of Sciences, that Readers in every kind 

 be chofen out of the ableft and mod fufficientmewi as thole that are 

 ordained, not for tranfitory uft, but for to maintain and propagate the 

 feeds of Sciences for future Ages ; This cannot be, except the Rewards 

 and Conditions be appointed fuch, as may fufficiently content the raoft 

 eminent man in that Art, fo as he can be willing to fpend his whole 

 Age in that funftion and never defire to pradice. Wherefore that Sci- 

 ences fmy flourifi, Ddw (^/Military Law (hould be obfcrVed, That thofe 

 thatjiayed with the Carriage pould have equal parts with thofe that were 

 in the AUion -, elfc will the Carriages be ill attended. So Readers in 

 Sciences are, as it were, Protectors and Guardians of the Provifionof 

 Learning, whence the Adion and fer vices of Sciences may be furnifti't. 

 Wherefore it is reafon that the S alary es of Speculative men, Jhould be e- 

 qual to the gains ofA&ivemenj othefwife if allowances to Fathers of 

 Sciences be not in a competent degree ample and condign, it will 

 come to pals, 



virg. Ge- Vt Patrem invalidi referentjejunia Natl, 



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§ Now I will note another Defe^, wherein Ibme Alchymift (hould 

 be called"unto for helps for this SeftofMenadvife Students to fell their 

 Books and to build furnaces 5 to quit Minerva and the Mules, as Bar- 

 ren Virgins, and to apply themfelves to Vulcan. Yet certainly it muft 

 be confeft, that unto the depth oi Contemplation, and the fruit of Ope- 

 rativejiudiesin many ScienceSjCfpecially Natural Fhilofophy,zndPkyficl{_^ 

 Bookj are not the only fubfidiary Injiruments, wherein the Munificence 

 of men, hath not been altogether wanting 5 for we fee Spheres^ Globes^ 

 jiflrolabes'. Maps, and the like, have been provided, and with indu- 

 ftry invented, as Htlpsto Ajirono/f/y and Cofmography , as well as Bookj, 

 We fee likewife fbme places dedicated to the ftudy of Phifc^ to have 

 Gardens for the infpe£{ ion and obfervation of Jimp Ics of all forts; and to 

 be authorized the ufeof Dead Bodies for Jnatomy-Le&ures. But thofe 

 do refped but a few things •■, in the generality fet it down for Truth, 

 That there can hardly be made any mainProficience inthedifclofingofthe 

 ferrets of Nature, unlc^ there be liberal Allowance for Experiments j vehe- 



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