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Show , Ofthe Atlia ement of Learning, lowe ~frer .Siliiilitlld~J, &c. For. thofe, whofecon~ c~eiter~re feated i~ pQpular opinions, neede onely but to pro~ue or dtfpute: ~ut thofe, w hof e conceits . . arc beyonde popular opinions, haue a double Ia· l)our; .the one to make then1felues conceiued, and · lhe other t6 prooue and demonRrate. so that it is of nec.efsitie with thenl to haue recourfe to fi. rnihtuiies, ah6 tr.an~ations, to expre[e thet"Rfelues. Arid ther:efur,e in the lnfancie of Learning, and in rude times, ·when tbofe conceits, which ar~now · ttiuiall Were then ncwe; t,he World was full of J~ra~'fti -and Similltlfdts; for-elK: would men either . haue ·palfed ouer without Marke, or elfe reie· ·,a-cd for Paradoxes, that which was offered; be. iOte ttfey had vnderftoode or iudged. So; in Di. ume ~earning, wee (ce howe frequent Parables and Tr'les are; ~r it is a Rule, That whatfoeuer. Science i1 111t co,fonani tl prefopp~(ttions,muj! praJ ;, 1yde ipf~imiliU!ies. There be atff,> otht~ Diuerfities of METHoDEs VlJI~ar and r~ued: as rhat of Rejolution,or Ana• ly(i!,OfCIJiJjlltll'llon, or syftafis, of Concealement,or cryptiq•t,<!J<,e • . which l doe allowe well of; though Ibaue fto.od vp~n~fe which are leaft handled and 06~. :AJt'Wbk:h I hiue iemembred to this tJt pri- pu~ore, becauk would ereae and conflitttte tknti.i one general~ Bn~uirie (whichfeemesto meedefi· Traelil~ cith1:)to~ifigtltie WJJNUmto} rradition. · , INs. ?~ll'l v o tliis :pa (>f Knowledge, concernmg · ~.. ~ !~9.~;a, ~~~h~e~~c~ong, not onh~Jyn~r~ ,An: tte,,, \ .... _, . ~ ne Jecond:Book.!. . 65 /iiltEiuri of the w~ole frame of a Worke, .alfo rhe f~uerali beames2lrid Columnes thereof; as to the1r fiuffe ·, but as to their ~uantitie "figure: A~d th~refore, Methode confidereth: nely t.he dt!pofiuon of the vf rgtt'llient or Sub- ' but hkewttc the flropofitions: not as to their or N4tter' . but as to ·their Limitati()n and 1/UJWtr: Fo~ ~ereln ~~~mustnerited better a great . In r~ututng the good Rules of Pr()pojitions "'t•nv K~1'«. W'ILJIT@-. ~c. than hediclln introdu~ ~h~ Canker of Epitom_ts: And yet' (as it is the . of Humane th1nges, that according to ancte~t Fa.bles, The fnofl prttious t.hingts htute ptrntttoJts l(eepers) It was fo, that the atof the one, made hi.m fall vpon the other., l.W!aethad needebe ~ell :-conduCted, that lhould to ~ake <-...-1 x~omes Corutertible: If be make ~ot. w nliall Ctrcu!Ar' and l'l on promPMtnt' or . _,_., .. "' .... & tllto themfllues: but yet the -Intention was |