960 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
garb, they glory among the untaught as if everything lay within 
their jurisdiction, for as someone has said (his name has dis¬ 
appeared from the fragment which remains of him). 
‘Gartio quisque duas postquam scit j ungere partes 
Sic stat, sic loquitur velut omnes noverit artes. ? 
“On genera and species these men bring forth a new theory 
which had escaped the notice of Boethius, which the learned 
Plato did not know, and one which they claim by some happy 
lot to have, just recently, discovered in the secrets of Aristotle. 
They are prepared to solve the old question in the labors of 
which the world has already grown old; in which more time has 
been consumed than the house of the Caesars spent in acquiring 
and ruling the empire of the world, and in which more money 
has been squandered than Croesus had with all his riches. This 
has occupied the attention of many men for so long a time that 
they have spent their whole lives in seeking this one thing, and 
have discovered neither it nor anything else. Perhaps this is 
due to the fact that what alone can be discovered does not satisfy 
their curiosity, for just as in the shadow of any body the sub¬ 
stance of solidarity is sought for in vain, so in those matters of 
theory which, though universally conceived of, can not be 
universal, the substance of existing solidarity is never found. 
To waste a life-time in these pursuits is an occupation for a man 
who has nothing to do or for one who does not mind laboring in 
vain. These things are, indeed, like mists of fleeting clouds; 
the more eagerly they are sought after the more quickly they 
disappear. Over this question they labor in many ways and 
with a variety of expression; and though they use words with 
entire indifference as to their meaning yet somehow they manage 
to find various opinions and to leave abundant material for dis¬ 
putations to contentious men. 
“Thence it is that, having selected the sensible and other 
singulars since these things alone are said to exist, they ar¬ 
range them in a graduated order by which they fix the most 
general and the most special into singulars themselves. There 
are some who in the manner of mathematicians abstract the 
forms and apply to them what is said about the universals. 
