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Show 16 The Art bf Travelling. bear determining his Opinion, till time give him further light. The firft of thefe Rules forms the ]u lgment, and renders it folid; the fecond cultivates and refines it; and the third advances it to Perfection. The firlt is owing more to Nature than Experience; the fecond depends as much on Expe- rience as on a Genius: and the third raifes the Mind to a confummate Prudence, which is the highefl: pitch of politick Wifdom. That Traveller who has not an elevation of Mind capable of fuch Inventions as may out-wit another, may make ufe of the fecond Character of a prudent Mind, namely, to enquire much into things, and determine but little about 'em 5 but if a Man wants both the one and the other of thefe Qualities, we'll venture to prophefy that he'll never become a P0litician. The Memory in the judgment of many pafles for one of the mofl: excellent Faculties of the Soul: But few confider, that feeing it brings out nothing but what has been committed to it before, when there is Confufion in the Mind, there mutt alfo necellarily be the like diforder in the Memory. 'Tis a great advantage to a "Traveller to have a Memo- ry ealily impreflible, provided it be faithful; fori‘r a Man becaufe he has feen much, goes about to utter The Art of Travel/jag. I7 ; on, and this becomes as dangerous to the Reafon and Judgment, fuppoling it not to be incompatible with the regular exercife of either of thefe; yet 'tis molt certain a great multiplicity of Facts require either abundance of time to range 7em in good order, or a prodigious heat of Fancy to melt 'em down (as it were) altogether, without making any alteration in 'em. 50 that it feems an impollihle ii‘ippohtion, that an eafy Memory can be {trong and true, f0 as not to divert from that fteady Application which the judgment requires. And yet both are necefl'ary for a Traveller, fo that one of thefe Qualities Without the other would be of no ufe to get the knowledg of the StateRefolutions of any foreign Politicians: For if what he learns to day is not fupported with all thofe Circumftances that may render it more than pro- bable to his difcuflion, and is not produc'd atrelh in all its Circumftances when any Affair that bears a proportion to it prefents, 'tis eafy to conceive that all the Circumftances that help'd him at firlt to decide the matter in hand being reprefented to him but by halves, and in the room of thofe that are omitted others fubftituted which alter the Rate of the cafe, 'tis an t difficult, I fay, to conceive that fnch a great deal without giving an intelligible account of matters, by reafon of that Confufion which the ama- [an eafy Memory malt call: him into confuhon, becaufe it does not faithfully revive all thofe Cir- cumilances. This (.‘onclulion may be fet in a clearer Zing diverfity of Things, Names and Circumltances light by an Example. Ordinarily occafions, his Memory appears to be a mere Labyrinth of Perplexity. I have aIWays look'd upon an eal'y Memory to be like a handfome Face, which hides a great many lnfirmities in a crazy Body, and firikes the Fancy more than all thefe Imperfeéiions, tho they really much oat-balance it. For befides that fuch a Memory ferves for a Rock for the Imagination to fpht on, , ‘ The Vifier Kara Ma/laplm who befiegd Vienna remember'd the Advice, and a greaemany of the Projecls Count Telely had given him in his'Ient at their enterview- beyond Budd before this great En- terprize: And his Memory reproduc'd that in his extremity, which his Pride had madehim defpilc. The Count perfwaded him to polfefs himfelf of the Bridges of Vienna on the North-fade before he made A. |