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there are of comparative duty. Amongst which that of 

 all others is the most frequent, where the question is of a 



freat deal of good to ensue of a small injustice. Which 

 ason of Thessalia determined against the truth : Aliqua 

 sunt injuste facienda, ut multa juste fieri possint. But the 

 reply is good, Authorem praesentis justitiae habes, sponsorem 

 futurae non habes. Men must pursue things which are just 

 in present, and leave the future to the divine Providence. 

 So then we pass on from this general part touching the 

 exemplar and description of good. 



Now therefore that we have spoken of this fruit of 

 DeCuitura, ^^ e ^ remaineth to speak of the husbandry that 

 Animi. belongeth thereunto ; without which part the 

 former seemeth to be no better than a fair image or 

 statua, which is beautiful to contemplate, but is without 

 life and motion : whereunto Aristotle himself subscribeth 

 in these words : Necesse est scilicet de virtute dicere, et quid 

 sit, et ex quibus gignatur. Inutile enim fere fuerit virtutem 

 quidem nosse, acquirendae autem ejus modos et vias ignorare. 

 Non enim de virtute tantum, qua specie sit, quaerendum est, 

 sed et quomodo sui copiam faciat: utrumque enim volumus, et 

 rem ipsam nosse, et ejus compotes fieri : hoc autem ex voto non 

 succedet, nisi sciamus et ex quibus et quomodo. In such full 

 words and with such iteration doth he inculcate this part. 

 So saith Cicero in great commendation of Cato the second, 

 that he had applied himself to philosophy non ita disputandi 

 causa, sed ita vivendi. And although the neglect of our 

 times, wherein few men do hold any consultations touch- 

 ing the reformation of their life, (as Seneca excellently 

 saith, De partibus vitae quisque deliberat, de summd nemo,') 

 may make this part seem superfluous; yet I must conclude 

 with that aphorism of Hippocrates, Qui gravi morbo 

 correpti dolores non sentiunt, Us mens aegra est; they need 

 medicine not only to assuage the disease but to awake the 

 sense. And if it be said that the cure of men's minds 

 belongeth to sacred Divinity, it is most true : but yet 

 Moral Philosophy may be preferred unto her as a wise 

 servant and humble handmaid. For as the Psalm saith, 

 'that the eyes of the handmaid look perpetually towards 



