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to fay, Th it the people rccrc lik,c the Sea, and the Orators li!{e the rviftcls 5 

 becaufeas xheSea would ofit (elf becalm and quiet, ifthen'//7j/-did 

 not move and trouble it ^ fo the People of their own nature would be 

 peaceable and tradtable, iCthe /editions Orators did not fet them in 

 working and agitation. So it may be truly affirmed, thdii mans !7zind 

 in the miture thereof, would be temperate and ftaid, if the ajfctii- 

 <>«/,as winds, did not put it into tumult and perturbation. And here 

 again I find it ftrange, that ylrislotle, who writ fo many books of £» 

 thickj^ Ihould never in them handle the Aff'e&ions^ as an eflential 

 member of £//.'/V;^/; and yet in the B.hetorickj^ where they are confix 

 dered but Collaterally, and in a (econd degree fthat is, Co far as they 

 may be rais'd and moved by fpeechj he finds place for them, (in 

 which place notwithftanding, for fuch an abridgement, he difcourl- 

 eth acutely and well:} for his diiputations abom pleafure and pain, no 

 way (atisfieth this inquiry; no more than he thatfiiould write only 

 of light and lightning, could be (aid, to have written of the nature 

 of particular Colours ^ for rkaftireand Pain^ are to the particular affe- 

 ftions, as light is to Colours. Better travels the Stoicks have taken ia 

 this argument, as far as may be conjedtured from fuch Remains as are 

 extant 5 but yet fuch as confifted rather in curiofity of Definitions,. 

 than any full and ample defcriptions. So likewife I find fomc elegant 

 Books of (brae d^e^/^»x, zs of Anger ^ of Tendemejs'^ of Countenance,- 

 and (fbme few other. But to fpeak the truth, the beft Doftors of 

 this knowledge ziQihc^oQis, and writers of Hifliories, where we may- 

 find painted and diflefl"ed to the life, how affedtions are to beftirred 

 up and kindledj how ftill'dand laid afleep; how again contaio'd and 

 refrain'd, that they break not forth into Adt ; likewi(e how they dif- 

 clofe themfelves, though reprelled and fecreted 5 what operations 

 they produce; what turns they take; how they are enwrapt one 

 within another ; how they fight and encounter one with cinother 5 

 and other the like Particularities. Amongft the which, this lalt is 

 of fpecial ufe in Moral and Civil matters. How, Ifay, to fet Ajfc&ion 

 againfi Ajfe&ion ; and by the help of one to majier and reclaim another .<? 

 After the manner of Hunters and Fowlers, who hunt Bea(t with Beafl: 5 

 and fly Bird with Bird ; which percafe of themfelves without the af- 

 fiftance of Bruit Creatures, a man could not fo eafily recover. Nay 

 farther, upon this foundation, is eredted, that excellent and univer- 

 lal ufein matters Civil of Pr£miHm and P£Ma, which are the Pillars 

 cf Civil States ; feeing thofe predominant Affe&ions of Fear and Hope 

 do bridle and fupprefsall other exorbitant AffeSions. Again, as in 

 government of States, it is fometimes neceffary to confront and bri- 

 dle one Fadtion with another j lb it is in the inward Gavernment of 

 the Rtind. 



HI. Now come we to thole '?omts\v\i\chzrQ rvithin atir own com- 

 atand,and have force and operation upon themind,and aKbaffed^jdif- 

 pofe, and manage the IVill and Appetite 5 and therefore are of great 

 force to alter the manners. In which part the Philofophers ought to 

 have made a painful and diligent //?^«;>; touching the foircr and E- 

 ftergy of Cujiom, Exercife, Habit, Education, Convcrfation , Friend- 

 Jf.'ipi rrarfe, Reprehenfi9n^ Exhortation , Fame , Lawt , Bookf j Stw 



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