48 Of the Advancement of Learning. Lie. II. 



and of extemporal rpeech: So as by this courfe, exercifes are not ac- 

 commodate to praftice, nor the Image anfwereth to the Life; And it 

 is ever a true rule in exercifes, that all, as neer as may be, Jhould repre- 

 fetit thofe things vohich in common courfe of life ufe to bepra&ifed 3 other- 

 wife they will pervert the motions and faculties of the mind, and not 

 prepare them. The truth whereof is plainly dilcovered, when Scho- 

 lars come to the Practice of their Profcflions, or other Aftions of Civil 

 life, which when they fet into, thisdefeft, whereof we fpeak, is (bon 

 found out by themfelves, but fboner by others. But this part, touch- 

 ingthe amendment of ihelnfiittitions of theVniverfities, I will conclude, 



Cic^pift. ^ith the claufe ofC<f/4r/ letter to 0/)/'/«^3 Hoc ^emadmodnm fieri pojjtt^ 



lib. IX. nonnuUji mihiin mentem veniunt & miiUa reperiri foffunt, de iis rebus ^ 

 rogo vos, ut cogitationcmfufcipiatk. 



§ Another DefcH which I note, afcends a little higher than the pre- 

 cedent ; For as the progrejjion of Learning confifteth much in the wife Go' 

 ziernment and inflitution ofVniverJities in particular 5 fo it would be more 

 advanced, iftheVniverJities in general, difperfid through all Eur ope I were 

 united in a neerer conjunSion and correfpondence by mutual Intelligence^ 

 For there are, as we fee, many Orders and Societies, which, though 

 they be divided under feveral Soveraignties and (pacious Territories^ 

 yet they do contraft and maintain a Society and a kind of Fraternity 

 one with another , in fb much that they have their Provincials and Ge- 

 nerals, to whom all the reft yield obedience. And (urely as nature cre- 

 ates Brother-hoods in Families'-, and Acts Mechanical contr ad: Brother- 

 hoods in Communalties-j the Anointment of God fuper-induceth a bro- 

 ther-hoodin Kings and Bifhops j Vows and Canonical rules unite a Bro- 

 ther-hood in Orders , in like manner, there cannot but intervene a Noble 

 and Generom Fraternity between men by Learning and illuminations 5 re- 

 flefting upon that relation which-is attributed to God, who himfelf is 



lac. I, called, The Father of illumination's or Lights. 



§ Laftly, this I find fault with, which I fomewhat toucht upon be- 

 fore, that there hath not been, or very rarely been, anypublick^defignation 

 of able men, who might write or make inquiry offuch parts of Learning as 

 have not been hitherto fuficiently laboured and fubdued. Unto which 

 point it will be very available, if there were erefted a kind of vi(itation 

 of Learning j and a Cenfe or Eflimate taken, what parts of Learning are 

 rich and well improved 5 what poor and deftitute. For the opinion cf 

 Plenty is amongfi the Caufes of want j and the multitude of Books makes 

 a fhew rather of fuperfluity, than penury. Which furcharge, never- 

 thelefs, if a man would make a right judgement, is not remedied by 

 fupprelTing or extinguifhing books heretofore written, but by publfh- 



Exod 7 ^"8 good new books, which may be offuch a right kind, that, as the 

 Serpent of Afofes, may devour the Serpents of the Enchanters. 



§ The Remedies of thele defe&s now enumerate, except the laft, 

 and of the laft alfo, in refpeft of the Aftive part thereof, which is the 

 Deftgnation of writers, are opera Bafilica, towards which the endeavours 

 and induftry of a private man, are commonly but as an Image in a 

 crofs way, which may point at the way, but cannot go it: But the 

 fpeculative part, which pertaineth to the examination of knowledges, name- 

 ly, what is deficient in every particular Science, is open to the induftry 

 of a private man. Wher/'forc my defignfaent is to attempt a general and 



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