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let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to 

 swelling ; to use, and not to ostentation ; and again, that 

 they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings 

 together. 



And as for the disgraces which learning receiveth from 

 politiques, they be of this nature ; that learning: .doth. soften 

 men's minds, and makes them more unapt for the honour 

 and exercise of arms; that it doth mar and pervert men's ^\^ 

 dispositions for matter of government and policy, in 

 making them too curious and irresolute by variety of 

 reading, or too peremptory or positive by strictness of rules 

 and axioms, or too immoderate and overweening by reason 

 of the greatness of examples, or too incompatible and 

 differing from the times by reason of the dissimilitude of 

 examples ; or at least that it doth divert men's travails 

 from action. and business, and bringeth them to a love of \< 



leisure and privateiiess ; and that it doth bring into states 

 a relaxation of discipline, whilst every man is more ready to x^ < *J 

 argue than to obey and execute. Out of this conceit Catcy' W 

 surnamed the Censor, one of the wisest men indeed that J5 \ 

 ever lived, when Carneades the philosopher came in 

 embassage to Rome, and that the young men of Rome 

 began to flock about him, being allured with the sweetness 

 and majesty of his eloquence and learning, gave counsel in 

 open senate that they should give him his dispatch with all 

 speed, lest he should infect and inchant the minds and 

 affections of the youth, and at unawares bring in an altera- 

 tion of the manners and customs of the state. Out of the 

 same conceit or humour did Virgil, turning his pen to the 

 advantage of his country and tHe disadvantage of his own 

 profession, make a kind of separation between policy and 

 government and between arts and sciences, in the verses so 

 much renowned, attributing and challenging the one to the 

 Romans, and leaving and yielding the other to the Grecians ; 

 FU regere imperio populos, Romane, memento, Hae tibi eruni 

 artes, etc. 



So likewise we see that Anytus, the accuser of Socrates, 

 laid it as an article of charge and accusation against him 

 that he did with the variety and power of his discourses 



