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But Digitized by Google 30 ANAPOLOGIE when by the ballance of experience it was found, that the Aftronomer \)oking to the ilarres might fall into a ditch, that the enquiring Philofopher might be blinde in himfelfe, and the Mathematician might draw foorth a llraight line with a crooked hart: then loe, did proofe the ouer ruler of opinions, make manifefl, that all thefe are but feruing Sciences, which as they haue each a priuate end in themfelues, fo yet are they all diredled to the highefl end o...f the millres Knowledge, by the Greekes called Arkitecktonike^ which (lands, (as I thinke) in the knowledge of a mans felfe, in tiie Ethicke and poHtick confideration, with the end of well dooing and not of well knowing onely ; euen as the Sadlers next end is to make a good faddle : but his farther end, to feme a nobler facultie, which is horfemanlhip, fo the horfemans to souldiery, and the Souldier not onely to haue the (kill, but to per- forme the pradlife of a Souldier : fo that the ending end of all earthly learning, being vertuous a6lion, thofe fkilles that moll feme to bring forth that, haue a mofl lull title to bee Princes ouer all the refl: wherein if wee can (hewe the Poets noblienes, by set- ting him before his other Competitors, among whom as principall challengers Hep forth the morrall Philo- fophers, whom me thinketh, I fee comming towards me with a fullen grauity, as though they could not abide vice by day light, mdely clothed for to witnes outwardly their contempt of outward things, with bookes in their hands agaynfl glory, whereto they fette theyr names, fophillically fpeaking againfl fub- tility, and angry with any man in whom they fee the foule fault of anger : thefe men calling larges as they goe, of Definitions, Diuifions, and Dillindlions, with a fcomefiill interogatiue, doe foberly aske, whether it bee pofsible to finde any path, fo ready to leade a man to vertue, as that which teacheth what vertue is?
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