228 Of the Advancement of Learning, L i b. VII. 



wonderful terrible, againft whom there 13 no end of preparing > bet- 

 ter faith the Poet though a Heathen, 



juven.Satyr. ^i ffaeium vit£ extrentHM^ inter fuumraponat 

 NatHr£.' 



So have the Philofophers fought to make the Mind in all things uni- 

 form and Harmonical j by not breaking them to contrary Motions 

 and Extremes. The reafon whereof I fuppofe to have been, becaufc 

 they dedicated themfelves to a private courfeof life 5 exempt and free 

 from adtive imployments and obfervances to others. But let men 

 rather imitate the wifdom of Jewellers, who, if perchance, there be 

 in the Gemra a Cloud or an Ice, which may fo be grownd forth, as 

 it abate not the ftone too much, they help it, otherwife they will 

 not meddle with it ; fo ought men fo to procure Serenity of mind as 

 they deftroy not Magnanimity. Thus much oi V articular Good, 



III. Now therefore after we have fpoken oi Self-good (which alfo 

 we ufe to call Good Varticular, Private, Individual, let us relume 

 the Good of Communion, which refpefteth Society, this is commonly- 

 termed by the name of Duty, becaufe the term of Duty, is more pro- 

 per to a mind well fram'd and dilpos'd towards others 5 the terra of 

 Virtue, to a mind well form'd and compos'd in it (elf! But this part 

 at firft fight may feem to pertain to Science Civil, or Foliticli, but 

 not if it be well obferved ; for it concerns the Regiment and Go- 

 vernment of every man over himfelf , and not over others. 

 And as in Archite&ure, it is one thing , to to frame the Pofts, 

 Beams , and other parts of an Edifice , and to prepare them 

 for the ufe of building 5 and another thing, to fit and joyn the fame 

 parts together ; and as in Mechanicals, the direftion how to frame, 

 and make an inftrument or engine, is not the lame with the manner 

 oferefting, moving, and letting it on work : So thedoftrineof the 

 conjugation of men, in a City or Society, differs from that which 

 makes them conformed, and well afFefted to the weal of fiich a So* 

 ciety, 



§ This Part of Duties is likewife diftributed into two portions, 

 whereof the one reipedts the common duty of every man, the other the 

 fpecial and refpe&ive Duties of every man in his profeffion, vocati-< 

 on ftate, perfon, and place. The firft of thefe, hath been well la- 

 boured, and diligently explicated by the Ancients and others, as 

 hath been faid : the other we find to have been Iparledly handled, al- 

 though not digefted into an entire body of a Science 5 which man- 

 ner of difperfed kind of writing, we do not diflike 5 howbeit in our 

 judgement, tohavewrittenof this Argument by parts, were far bet- 

 ter. For who is endewed with fo much perspicacity and confidence, 

 as that he can take upon him to difcourfe, and make a judgement 

 skilfully, and to the life, of ihepeculiar and refpe^ive duties of eve- 

 ry particular order, condition and Profeflion? Andthetreatifes which 

 are notfeafon'd with experience, hut are drawn only from a general and 

 Scholafiical notion of things, are touchingfuch matters, for mofipart,i~ 

 die and fruitk^ difcourjes. For although fometimes a looker on 



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