TRAVELLING, &c. y 
without experience can do nothing *, being no- 
thing, but the mere dreams, phantafms, and 
meteors of ingenious men who abufe their 
time. The antients certainly did not, any 
more than we, bring experience into the world 
with them. There is need of much diligence 
and labor, before man can be thoroughly in- 
ftrufted. Diofcorides confefTes, that he under- 
took many journies in order to increafe expe- 
rience •, and the other fathers of phyfic in their 
writings frequently make mention of their 
travels either exprefsly or tacitly. 
Academies were inftituted to the end, that 
men well verfed in all kinds of literature, and 
enriched befides by much experience, might 
be invited thither, and that the youth, who 
were ambitious of becoming learned, might 
flock together to thofe feats ; and have the 
advantage of improving no lefs by the expe- 
rience, than by the erudition of the profeffors ; 
and thefe qualifications combined together, 
which is of all alliances the mofi pleafing, 
very juftly deferve the utmoft veneration and 
refpe£t. 
Vail and fumptuous libraries are ere&ed in 
academies ; in which the obfervations of the 
learned, like fo many legacies, and donations, 
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