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162 Of the Advancement of Learning. L i b . VI. 



Indications of Indications. For Arijiotle advifeth well. That we may 

 ' Eth.lib. I. not require Demonjirations from Orators^ or Verfwafionsfrom Iil.it hemati- 

 cians-^ fo that if you miftake in the kind of Proof, the judicature can- 

 not be upright and perfeft. And feeing there are four kin^s of £>e- 

 monjirdtions either by immediate Confent^ and commune 'Notions 5 or 

 by InduUion 5 or by Syllogism ^ or by that which Arijiotle calls Ds^- 

 monfiraiiou in orb ^ or in Circle^ (that is not from the more known no- 

 tions, but down right J 5 every of thefe Dcmonjirations hath ceriain 

 Subjedts, and matter of Sciences, wherein refpedtively they have chief- 

 eft ufe^ other Subjefts from which refpedtively they ought to be ex- 

 cluded. For a rigor and curioflty in requiring toojevere proofs in fame 

 things 5 -mHch more afaeiltty and remijfion in rejiingjatisfied iifz flighter 

 Proofs, are to be numbrcd amongji thoje prejudices, rohich have been the 

 greatefi Caufes of detriment, and impediment to Sciences. Thus much 

 concerning the Art of "judging. " 



C HA P. • V. 



I. The Partition of Art Retentive, or of Memory into the Knowledge 

 of tfx Helps of Memory, §. andtheKnoirledgeoftheA/emoryitfelf. 

 If. ThcDWx^lon df the DoUrine of Memory into Vrenotion. ^. and 

 Emblem. 



E will divide the Art of Retaining, or ofCuflody, into two Know- 

 ledges •■) that is, into the l^nowlcdgeofthe Helps of Memory, and 

 the Knowledge of the Memory it felf, Affirtant to Memory is writing ^ 

 and itmuft by all means be noted, that Memory of it felf, without this 

 fupport, would be too weak for prolix and accurate matters j whereiq 

 it could no way recover, or recall it lelf, but by Scripture. And this 

 Jubfldiaryfecond is alfoofmoft fpecial u(e in Indu&ive I hilofophy, and 

 the Interpretation of 'Nature. For a man may as well perfeft, and fum 

 up the Computations oi^ an Ephemerides by mere Memory^ as compre- 

 hend the /A;^n-^rc/d//<;» of Wa/wre by meditations, and the nude, and 

 • native ftrength of Memory '-, unlels the fame Memory be affifted by Tables^ 

 and Indices provided for that Purpofe. But to let go the Interpretati- 

 on of Nature, which is anew knowledge^ there fcarcely can be a thing 

 more ufeful even to ancient, and popular Sciences, than a folid, and 

 good Aid to Memory 5 that is, a fubftantial and Learned Digeji of Com- 

 mon places. Neither am I ignorant, that the referring ofthoje things we 

 read, or learn, into Common Places, is imputed byfome as a Prejudice to 

 Learning , as caufing a retardation of Reading, and ajhthjul relaxation 

 to Memory. But becaufe iris a Counterfeit thing in Knowledge, to be 

 forward and pregnant, unlefs you be withal deep and full j I hold that 

 the diligence, and pains in colleding Common Places, is of great ufe 

 and certainty in (tudying; as that which Subminifters Copy to Inven- 

 tion --i and Cijntradicth the fight of Judgment to a ftrength. But this is 

 true, that of the Methods and Syntagms of Commonplaces, which we have 

 Jeenj there is none that is of any worth ; for that in their Titles^ they mere- 



