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themselves by taking to them for a Sanctuary the two daughters of
War, Deceipt and Violence: that is in plaine termes a meer
brutall Rapacity: which although men object to one another as a
reproach, by an inbred custome which they have of beholding their
own actions in the persons of other men, wherein, as in a
Mirroir, all things on the left side appeare to be on the right,
& all things on the right side to be as plainly on the left; yet
the naturall right of preservation which we all receive from the
uncontroulable Dictates of Necessity, will not admit it to be a
Vice, though it confesse it to be an Unhappinesse. Now that with
Cato himselfe, (a person of so great a renowne for wisdome)
Animosity should so prevaile instead of Judgement, and partiality
instead of Reason, that the very same thing which he thought
equall in his popular State, he should censure as unjust in a
Monarchical, other men perhaps may have leisure to admire. But I
have been long since of this opinion, That there was never yet
any more-then-vulgar-prudence that had the luck of being
acceptable to the Giddy people; but either it hath not been
understood, or else having been so, hath been levell'd and cryed
downe. The more eminent Actions and Apothegms both of the Greeks
and Romans have been indebted for their Eulogies not so much to
the Reason, as to the Greatnesse of them, and very many times to
that prosperous usurpation (with which our Histories doe so
mutually upbraid each other) which as a conquering Torrent
carryes all before it, as well publick Agents as publick Actions,
in the streame of Time. Wisdome properly so call'd is nothing
else but this, The perfect knowledge of the Truth in all matters
whatsoever. Which being derived from the Registers and Records of
Things, and that as 'twere through the Conduit of certain
definite Appellations, cannot possibly be the work of a suddaine
Acutenesse, but of a well-ballanc'd Reason, which by the
Compendium of a word, we call philosophy. For by this it is, that
a way is open'd to us, in which we travell from the contemplation
of particular things to the Inference or result of universall
Actions. Now look how many sorts of things there are which
properly fall within the cognizance of humane reason, into so
many branches does the tree of philosophy divide it selfe. And
from the diversity of the matter about which they are conversant,
there hath been given to those branches a diversity of Names too:
For treating of Figures, tis call'd Geometry. of motion, physick;
of naturall right, Moralls; put all together, and they make up
philosophy. Just as the British, the Atlantick, and the Indian
Seas, being diversly christen'd from the diversity of their
shoares, doe notwithstanding all together make up The Ocean. And
truly the Geometricians have very admirably perform'd their part.
For whatsoever assistance doth accrew to the life of man, whether
from the observation of the Heavens, or from the description of
the Earth, from the notation of Times, or from the remotest
Experiments of Navigation; Finally, whatsoever things they are in
which this present Age doth differ from the rude simplenesse of