![]() In their Manners, Too Regular for the times, § Too sensible of the good of others, and neglective of their own. In their Fortunes scarcity of Meanes, § Obscurity of life. I Discredits of Learning from Learned mens Fortunes, Manners, Nature of studies. Particular seducements imputed to Learning, As, Curious Vncertainty, § Pertinacious Regularity, § Misleading Presidents, § Retired slothfulnesse, § Relaxation of Discipline Are all rather Cured then Caused by Learning. § Other particular indispositions pretended. That it perverts mens dispositions for Matter of Government. ![]() ![]() I Discredits of Learning from the objections of Politiques, That Learning softens mens natures, and makes men unfit for the exercise of Armes. § And so Philosophy leads the mind, by the Links of second Causes, unto the First. Against Infinity, Anxiety, and seducements of Sciences three preservatives: That we forget not our Mortality. The solution: Originall Guilt was not in the Quantity, but in the Quality of Knowledge. That knowledge inclines the Mind to Heresy and Atheisme. That Learning is a thing infinite, and full of anxiety. Discredites of Learning, from the objections of Divines: That the aspiring unto knowledge was the first sinne. § The Distribution, into the DIGNITY and the PROFICIENCY of LEARNING. ![]() ![]() IAMES who in high, but just conceptions, is here admired. The Consecration of this work unto the most learned of PRINCES, K. VERVLAM VICOVNT St ALBAN, OF THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. ![]()
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