142 Of the Advancement of Learning. Lie.V. 



De Re Cures were firjl foHud oiit^ and then after the Reafons and Cittfes were dif- 

 '^^'^'"* covered: not the other way, that the Caufes firii extraSedfrornthc nature 

 I Trnxf. ^/ things, gave light to the invention of Remedies. But rlato often notes 

 Phlcb. a-it; That particuiirs are infinite '-, again, that the highell Generalities 

 libi. giveno frficient Dire[iion -^ and that the Pyth of all Sciences^wherebythe 



Arts-man is diHinguiJInfrom the Inexpert, confijleth in Middle Propofiti- 

 ons, which experience hath delivered and taught in every particular Sci~ 

 ence. And therefore we fee, that they which difcourfe of the firft In- 

 ventors of things, and the Originals of Sciences, have celebrated rather 

 chance than Art 5 and have brought in BeaJis,Birds, Fijljes, Serpents^ ra- 

 ther than Men^^s the firft Dottors of Sciences. 



DiUamnum Genetrix Crettea carpit ad ida^ 

 Virg. ,En. ruberihus Caulemfoliis (j^flore comantem 



>2^. Purpurea, non iUa fcris incognit a Capris 



Gramina, cum tergo volucres h£ferefagitt£. 



So that it was no marvail ( the manner of Antiquity being for to 

 confecrate Inventors of things profitable) that the ^Egyptians, an 

 ancient Nation, to whom many Arts owe their Beginnings, had 

 their Temples full of the Idols of Brutes , but almoft empty of the 

 Idols of men, 



V rg. Omnigenttmq\ Dcuf:-t monjlra & Latrator Anubis, 



"^^ * Contra 'Neptunum-^d^ Verier em^ contraq^ Minervatit, &c. 



And if you like better, from the Tradition of the Grecians, to afcribe 



x\\G firti invention of Arts to men ; yet you cannot fiy that Promethe' 



Ot-M.Ho- w-f applied his cohtemplationon fet purpofetothe invention of Fire 5 



rat &c. f,j. ff^-it when he firft ftroak the flint he expcfted ^arks ^ but that he 



fell upon this experiment by chance, and as they fay, fiirtum Jovi 



jtcifje i fo as for the Invention of Arts we are more beholding to a wild 

 Goat for Cl/irurgery, or to a Nightingal for modulations ofMufickj 

 Pattiirol- the//i/xfor Clyfters^ to a Poilid that flew open for Artillery 5 and 

 Ke'. to fay in a word, to Chance.oi any thing eife more than to Logicl{. Nei- 

 ther is tlie form o^ Invention , which r/r^/Zdefcribes^much other. 



li.r 

 Mc.pa.z 



Virg. G.I. Et varias nfus meditando extunderet Artes 

 Paulatim ; 



For here is no other method of Invention propounded , than that 



uhich brute Beafts :ire capable of, and often put in ure, which is a 



fhrfl intentive foUicilude about fame one thing , and a perpetual pra&ice 



Oratio. t/'jcreoj:, which the neccjfity of their Confer7^ation impofeth upon Juch Crea- 



c'^^'r B 1 '"'■'^^^ ^^'" Cicero fjirh very truly , ufus uni rei deditus, d^ natnram df' 



bo. ixrtem (dtpe vincjt. Therefore if it belaid of men, 



V»fg. G.I, Ldhnr omn'-a Z'incit 



Improbtis, d^ duris urgens ifi rebus egrflas. 



It 



