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Show 20 m... amm- clap-i Ihave faidbefore, (in the fecond cha ter,)that aMan did excell aIIOther Animals in this faculty, that wren he conceryed any thing whatfoever, he was apt to enquire the confequences of it, and what effects he could do withit. And now I adde this other degree of the fame excellence, that he can by words reduce the coniequences he findes to generall Rules, called Tlzeovemes, or Ap/aorifmes 5 that is, he can Reafon, or reckon, not onely in number 5 but in all other things, whereof one may be added unto, or fubflraé‘ted from another. . . But this privedge, is allayed by another I, and that is, by the pumledge of Abfutdity, to which no livin creature is fubjcet, but H b.) men. . u . To him that can avo d thefe things, rtis not eafie to fall into any abl'urdity, unlefle it be by the length of an account 5 whe rein he may perhaps foroet what went before. .For all men by nature reafon alike, and well, w ien they have good princrples. For who is {0 fiupid, as bOth to miitake in Geometry, and alfo to perfifi in it, when another detects his error to him t‘ By this it appears that Reaibn is not as Senfe, and Memory, borne Scimcx‘ ned by Induflry «, fir-{t m apt impoiing ofNames , and fecondly by getting a good and orderly Method in proceeding from the Elements, which are Names, to Affertrons made by Connexron of one ofthem by been made indifputable. The firit caufe 0F Abfurd conclufions I afcribe to the want ofMe- thod ,in thatthey begin not their Ratiocination from Definitions ; that is, from ferried fignifications of their words : as if they could call account, without knowing the value of the numerall words, one, two, and three. 5 And whereas all bodies enter into account upon trons, ( which I have mentioned in the precedent divers confidera- chapter ,) thefe conirderations being diverfly named, divers ablurdities proceed from the cont-anon, and unfit connexion of their names into afiertions. And therefore Tht recond caufe ofAbfiird affertions,I afcribe to the giving of names of brains, to insert/ems -, or of accidents, to bodies 5 As they do, that lay, 1-in-1]; IJ' zizfiijrd, or ziszrred 3 when or [Ir-milled into any thing, but body 5 and nothing can be panned, that, cxtmfiorz is Izod) ,that /'//.tmdfnze.r arc]p1rzu,&c. The third I arcribe to the giving of the names of the accident: of lather lift/1'0": 71"" to the crude/ m of ourazv/iém'zes 5 as they do that layit'hc {QiUU/ 1.5 m the Lady, the found in}; the ayre,&C. J» learned by rote from the Schooles, as hypeflatiml, tranfuéflamiare, canfuéflamine , eternal-Nam, and the like canting of Sehoole- profefi‘e Philofophy. For it is molt true that Cicero {ayth of them or Explications of the names they are to ufe ; which is a method that hath been tried oncly in Geometry 3 whole Conclufions have there "2N €121,115. with us 3 nor gotten by Experience onely, as Prudence is -, but array- the books of Philofophers. And the reafon is manifef't. For there is not one of them that begins his ratiocination from the Definitions, fw rill/1‘. 0f MAN. man oncly. And of men, there are of al molt {object to it, that fome where 3 that there can be nothing fo abfurd, but may be found in (:11ch (fir/7- Part1. '1 ire fourth, tov thyc gryrng or the names of bustier, to namer, or [fetches -, as they no that ray, that ther e be things um‘terfa/I; that a li1m 3 (rears/re 15‘ 6811145, or a gene ral! thing,&c. I lhe hfih, 1to 1er giVlllg" of the names of accidenti‘, to name: Dyer," , "51 .tytiifl rat lay, and the natu re of a tbmg 2'; it: definition mam (alumina 15 be; n 1/1 ~, and ;a the like. i . I t ,t ‘ "Tillie fixt.l,ltitii. (1ul , § or‘ Met aphors. , Tropes, and other RhetoriU ,1 , .V V (ifi . guic V sfin‘ . r~ Icat, ,. or words- prop , ' t or txampit, in common fpec er . For though it' be lawfull to fay, chg/ Jenm } , goal ), or leader/J [Ignite/"1,7,? l) ,‘u.,-.-. m4. fay! rim' or that ( whereas wayes cannothither, or J rov H er,1 s pt:1 k,) go, nor -. yet ~ .'in rec - 5 , and leekrn V g ot4' ruth, fuch {pe c it s are notto be admitted. koning ev The ieventh, to names that fignifie notl ring; but are tak en up, and learned to another 5 and f0 to Syllogifmes, which are the Connexrons of one Affertion to another, till we. come to a knowledge of all the Corriequences of names appertaining to the fub1e<5t in hand 5 and that rsit, men call Sc 1 r N c r: . And whereas Senfe and Memory arebut know- ledge of Fact, which is athing pail, and irrevocable , Science is the knowledge ofConfequences,and dependance of one {act upon ano- ther : by which, out of that we can pre fently do, we know how to do fomething elfe when we Will, or the like, another time : Becauie when we fee how any thing comes about, upon what caufes, and by what manner ,when the like caufes come into our power, wee fee how to make it produce the like effects. . Children therefore are not endued with Reafon at all, till they have attained the ufe of Speech : but are called Reafonable Creatures, for the poflibility apparent of having the ufe of Reafon in time to come. And the molt part of men, though they have the ufe of Reafonrng a little way, as in numbring to fome degree 3 yet it ferves them to lit- tle we in common life 5 in which they govern themfelves,lorne better, fome worfe, according totheir differences of experience, qurcknelle of memory, and inclinations to {e verall ends 5 but fpecrally according to good or evill fortune, andthe errors of one another. For as for Science, or Certain rules of their aainns, they are {0 farre from it, that they know not what it IS. Geometry they have thought CONJU- ring ; But for other Sciences, they who have not been taught the be- ginnings, and tome progrefle in them, that they may fee how they be acquired and generated, are in this point like children, that having no thought of eneration, are made believe by the women, that their brothers angfiflers are not born, but found in the garden, ' _ But yet they that have no S tie/ice, are in better, and nonler condrtr» on with their naturall Prudence -, than men, that by mif-r‘eaionmg, or by trufling them that reafon wrong, fall upon falle and abfirrd gene-r tall rules. For ignorance of caufes, and of rules, does not let men {0 far-re out of their way, as relying on fallc rules, and taking for caufes of what they afpire to, thole t rat are not {0, but rather cautcs of the contrary" _ _ . ' To conclude,The Light of humane1{ninds 15 Fe rlprcuous Worlos, 2 wt |