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had not incontinently appeared^ that there was no fuch matter, and 

 that he never had any brother •■, the Soldiers would hardly have fpared 

 the Lieutenant's life; for he played it merely, as if it had been fbme 

 interlude upon the Stage. 



§ Now wearecome to a period of our Treatife concerning Z?.?//tf- 

 ?ial ^»oiv ledge s j wherein if we have (bmetimes departed from there- 

 ceivd partitions J yet let no man think that we difallow all xhoik parti- 

 tions which we have not ufed; for there is a double neceffity impofed up- 

 on us, of altering the Divijions •-, The one becaufe thefe tivo, namely to 

 fort together thofe things vphich are next in nature^ and to caji into one pile 

 thofe things vphich are next in ufej are in their end and purpofe altogether 

 differing. For example : A Secretary of a Prince, or of Eftate, (bdi- 

 gerts his Papers, without doubt, in his Study , as he may fort together 

 things of like nature , as Treaties apart , Inftrudlions apart , Forreign 

 Letters, Doraeftick letters, all apart by themfelves ; on the contrary 

 in fome particular Cabinet, he forts together thole that he were like 

 to ufe together, though of fcveral nature : fo in this general Cabinet 

 of Knowledge, we were to letdown partitions according to the nature 

 of things themfelves : whereas, if any particular Science were to be 

 handled, we (hould have refpefted the divifions fitteftfor ufe and pra- 

 ftice. The other reafonfor changing the Divifion is, becaufe the adje&ion 

 of Deficients to Sciences 5 and the reduction of them into an intire Body 

 did by confcquence alter the partition of the Sciences themfelves. For fay, 

 the Arts which are extant (for demonftration lake) be in number 15, 

 and the Deficients fuperadded make up the number 20 : I lay that the 

 parts of 15 are not the parts of 20, for the parts of 15 are 5 and 53 

 but the parts of 20, are 2, 4, 5 and 10, fo is it plain thele could not 0= 

 therwife be. And fo much oi Logical Sciences. 



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