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Show Of the .Aduancement if: Learning, ledoe indnced .' Btujn this fatnc anticipated and pre~emed knowledge; rio man knoweth howe het -came to the kno'Nledge which bee.hath obtayned. But )Ct neuertheletTe Secundt~m maitJs & minuJ, a man may r.euiftte , and de[cend vnto the founda-tions of his Knowledge and Confent : and fo . tranfplant it into another, as it grewe in his own.e tv1inde-. for it is in Knovvled.ges, as it i~ in ·Plante·s ; if you meane to v.fe the Plant, it is no .matter for the Rootes : But if you meane to -re .. mooue it to growe, then it is more aOined to. reft vpponrootes, than ~Iippes: So the deliuerie .~f Knowledges (as it is no we vfed) is as of fairc bodies ofT rees without the R oote~ : gocd for ·the carpenter., but not for the Planter :. Buu if you will haue Sciences growe ; it is leffe matter for ·the fhafte, or bodie of the Tree, fo you looke Dt M~~ ,. well to the takinge .vp of the l~ootes. Of which 1hod~ jjn- k~nde ~f deliuerie. the M!Ihoc!e of the Mat!Jema· tera fue tilJiies, m thai! Snb1eC1, hath [orne fhadowe; but d fttios . generally I fee it nei~her put in vre, nor pm Scientia· in Inquifition : and therefore note it for de-rum. : ficient:. . •· Another dillerfitie of M F. T H o D E there is, which hath {ome affinitie \Vith the former, vled infome cafes~ by the difcretion of the Auncients; · ~ ·but difgr~ced fince by tlie·ltnpoflures of ma~y vaine perfons, who hane made· it as a· falfe hght f~r. their . counterfehe Marchandiz-es ; and that ts Enig~ic:~ and:D~c:loJcd. !he pretence whe~4 . frhe fecond'Boo~, 63 , fi;. ts to r~mooue the vu~gar . Capacities· from 1ng adtnttted to the fecret-es of Know ledges,. and to. referue them to {eleCted Auditors : or wittes of fuch fharpene[e as can pearce the · yle. _ AnPther diu erG tie of M-E" T H o n E wherethe confeq~tence. is great, is the deliuerie of wledge in. A P H .o R IS M. E s, or in. ME.· o D E s ; wheretn wee may obferue, that-it b beene too much taken into Cuftome out Gf fewe Jxiomes or Obferuations, vpp'on any· ?ie~e, . to make a:f~lemne, and form all Art .. ~ / ng lt wnh fome Dtfcou~fcts ~, an~ .. . illuftratinge· wuh t xamples ; and dtgefhng tt tnto a CenfiMethode :. But the writinge in. A. p H a- It 1 s M· E s, hath manye · excellent vertues ~ · ~r. the writinge in Methode.. Qoth not aR~ tor firR, it tryeth tlie ·wr.iter, whether hee be· .,..n,.,.ficja11 er .ro.lide : For cAp hori{meJ, ~xeept tney· .~,....d bee rtdtcu!ous, cannflt bee·made but of· yth· and heart Gf Sciences : for difcourfe of ~ion · is cut off, Recitalles of Examples are· ~: Difcourfct of C onn~xion., ancl·order is c:ut · Defcfiptions. of Praetize, are ctnte off;. So. r.t"e·Femayn-eth n0thingt to fill the <-.Apforiftll~ r,. 1.1.1'1!'-.!,":I.&!Uime g~od quantitie of Obfe,ruadan.: AHw ff?re nQman c.anJil$c.e., nor j ~eafGn w.iU attllnll)( 1· t<:> write· LAphor~f~s,. but he.e that is ~ua~ IIII&IG.Ulnded. But in M~'fhodes,. . •. ... ,. -. ~ 'l ). 7 IJfJtJitllt |
