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Hich as zve Civil Hijiory^ Morality^ Policy^ about the which mens affefti- 

 .ons J Praifes, Fortunes do turn, and arc conver(ant ; But this (atue /«- 

 men (tecum, doih parch and offend mofi: raenswatry and fbft natures. 

 But if we would meafure and value things according to their proper 

 worth, Rational Sciences are the keys of all other Arts 5 and as the Hand 

 is the hifirumcrit of Injtrumcnts'-^ the Alind , the Form of Forms i, fo 

 thefe l{twtvlcdges are to be ellccn/ed the Art of Arts. Neither do they 

 direftonlyj but likewife ftrengthen and confirm 5 astheufeand habit 

 of fhooting, doth not only enable to (lioot a nearer fhoor j but alio 

 to draw a ftronger Bow. 



II. Arts Logtcul or intelc&ual are four in number ^ divided according 

 to the ends whereunto they are referred : For mans labour in Ratio- 

 nal Knowledges is,either to invent that which is fought 5 or to judge what 

 is invented i^ or to retain that which is judgdi, or to deliver that which is 

 retained : So as there muft needs be fo many Rational Sciences 5 Art of 

 Inquiry or Invention 5 Art of Examination or Judgement j Art ofCiiJio- 

 d)i or Memory j and Art of Elocution OT Tradition -, whereof we will 

 fpeak, of every particular apart. 



C H A P. II. 



I. The Partition of the Art of Invention into the Inventive of Arts: 

 I and of Arguments, ij The former of thefe, which is the more 

 eminent, is Deficient. II. The Divifion of the Inventive Art of 

 Arts, into literate Experience. § And a new Organ. III. A De- 

 lineation of Experience Literate. ' . 



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I. TNvention is of two kjnds^ much differing j the one of Arts and Sci- * 



J^ ences 5 the other of Arguments and Speeches. The former of thefe experi. 

 I report to be wholly Deficient, which feems to me to be fucha Drfi- temt"" 

 ence, as if in the making of an Inventory, touching the eftate of a De- ^'a^tio^" 



fnn&y it fhould be fet down, of ready money nothing : For as money paxis. 

 will fetch all other commodities 5 fo all ox.\i^x Arts are purchas'd by 

 this Art. And as the IFeJi Indies had never been difcovered, if the ufe 

 of the Alariners Neeis/Zc had not firft been difcovered, though thofei?(?- 

 gions be vaft , the Ferfor is a fmall Motion : So it cannot be found 

 ftrange , if 7» the difcovery and advancement of Arts, there hath nqt 

 been made greater Progreffiouj feeing the Art of Invention and Perlu- 



Jiration hitherto was unknown. 



§ That this part of knowledge is wanting jiands plainly confeffed. 

 For firfl: Logick doth not profels, nay, not pretend to invent either Arts 

 Mechanical, or Arts ("as they call them) Liberal:) nor to elicite the 

 Operations of the one, or the Axioms of the other 5 but fpeaks to men 

 as it were in Pafiage, and fo leaves them with this inftruftion, cuiq:,fua. . o ^ . 

 arte credendum. Celfus a wife man, as well as a Phyfician (though it fal.i. 

 be the cuftom of all men to be copious in the commendation of their 

 own Profeffion) acknowledgeth it gravely and ingeniou(ly,fpeakingof 

 the Empericaland Dogmatical Sefts of Phyficians, That Medicines and 



Cures 



