S' BENEFIT OF 
are preferred ; that they who diligently g ivp 
themfelves up to ftudy, may become endued 
with learning, polifhed, and confirmed by ex- 
perience. Thefe libraries are the repofitories 
pf wifdom, and their ftores are laid open to 
every ingenious candidate. 
Hofpitals are founded that the candidates of 
phyfic may learn thofe things at the patients 
bed fide, which cannot be learned from books; 
for here pra&ice, and experience fhew their 
force by means of the eyes, and hands *, as he 
paints any obje£t moft accurately, who paints 
from the idea, which his own eyes afford him, 
and not from that, which he gets by the rela- 
tion of another. 
Anatomy fchools are ere<5ted, that we may 
behold in another's body, as it were in a glafs, 
the nature, and conflitution pf our own ; as 
thofe conceive more clearly the fituation of 
countries, diftri&s, and cities, and the mam 
ners, rites, and cuftoms of their inhabitants, 
who themfelves have been there, and have feen 
what is remarkable amongfi: them with their, 
own eyes, than he who relies folely upon the; 
vague and imperfeft maps, and relations of 
travellers* 
Phyfic 
