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Show Of the adu~n~tment of/earning . commeth tbe neareR in degree to tha'"t ,Impoffi!Ji/~ .. tie· tO the en de, that by thete optattuts and Po!entr .. , 4tk, Mans enquirie may,bee the: tnore awa~~e 1fl di~, ducino directioof \Vorks from the fpeculauo .ofcau.~ fes. A~d lecondly·that thofeexperimetJ be not one .. Jy efteemed ~h~ch.hauc a_n immediate & pr~fet vfe, but tho{e pnncfpa_lly whtch are of mofi vntue.rfaJI confequence~or inuenr.ion of other e~~eritn~ts) &-· thofe which gtuc moll hght to the Inueuon of cau.·. fes·forthe Inuecion of the Mariners N eedle)which·. gi~eth dle direCH~>n,is o~ noe~elfe be.nefit f~r N a.ui- . ~ gation, .then the 1nu~nu~n .of~he fades \Vhtch gtue theMouon. Thus ha~e I palfed through N At V R' A · L:L~ P~H I L 0 S 0 PH IE, and~ the deficiences there._ of,wherein if I haue differed frorri the a.ncient,and·. · receiued doCtrines, and thereby !hall moue contradittion ; for my part, as I affect nor to dHfen r)fo I : · purpofe not to con ten~; I fit .be truth. . .... Non canimttJ fordil refpondcnt omnia fjltt4; The voice efNature will confent , whether the · voice of Man doe or noe. And .as Alexander Borgia· was \Vont wf~y of the expedition of the freflch for Ndples, that they came. with C·hau!ke.in their hands to marke vp t-he_ir ltldgings, .and not with \veapons to fight : So lllke better that entrie of truth \vhich -Colnme-th peaceably w.ith Cnaulke , to ma_rkevp rhofe Min des, which are capable to lodge and harbour it, then that w~ich co~meth with pugna,i-t4e. ancf~ontention. . But ther.e re.rnaineth a diuifion of N aturall Phi.- . , ·. _lofophy, • r r.E.he fecond hoo{e. 34 1ty jccgrdin~ to the Report oft he Enquirie 1 an.d b ....... ,'"' concerntng the Ma~cef or Jubieet, · and is POSITIVE and ·CONSIDERAE: when · ·tbe enquirie reporteth either a-n or a D·ouht. Thefe doti!Jts or Non Liquets, fort$,PArticular and T'Otall. For the fir·a · -a good example thereof in Ari/lotles Pro' which deferucd to haue had a better con, bur fo neuertheJelfc, as there is one point, wa~ningis .to begiuen.and taken; ... fhe Re .. ofdoubrs hath twoexceHentvfes: Theone ·~··"'~eth Ph"ilofophyfrom Errors & faHhoods: ~hat whic~ is not fully appearing, is not col~ ... . ,.. ... "' :~tfmtOo,. whe~eby Error might drawe · h.ut refe.rued .ln doubt. The other that the doubcs are as fo many fuckers or fponges·, vfe ofknow.Jedge,inlon1uch as that which had·not prece,ded' ·a man thould n'euer JJi~d , ·but pafl~~ it ~uer ,w ~thout Note ,hy ton and.(olhcttatton of doubts is made - .... dcdandapplied. But borhth~efecomdoc fcarcely counrcruaile an Inconueni .. .. .,_t:h \vii-intrude it felfe Jf it be Rot debarred; . --... , ..... Lilt when ad oubt is once receiued , men --~rner· howeto,keC'p.e ira aoubcll:iU , . then folue it, and .~ccordingly bt.:nd t~eir ,wits. e fee the famtha·r example in.Lawyers a.nc.J ; ~oth which if they· h~ue on.ceadmitted , · Jt -goeth e.uer after Authorized for ·a •· But that vfe o! wit and knowledge is to b~e ·I ·1 ~ --allow~ij .. r- • |
