Certainly one would not be apt to infer from that decided preference which the author himself manifests here for those stately and well-graced forms of speech, judging _merely_ from the style of this performance at least, one would not be inclined to suspect that he himself had ever been concerned in any literary enterprises, or was like to be, in which that _volubility_ of application which he appears to think desirable, was successfully put in practice. But we must remember, that he was just the man who was capable of conceiving of a _variety_ of _styles adapted to different exigencies_, if we would have the key to this style in particular. But we must look a little at these labours and studies themselves, which required such elaborate and splendid arts of delivery, if we would fully satisfy ourselves, as to whether this author really had any purpose after all in bringing them in here beyond that of mere ostentation, and for the sake of completing his muster-roll of the sciences. Above, we see an intimation, that the divisions of the subject are, after all, not so 'curious' but that the inquiry might possibly be resumed again in other connections, and in the particular connection specified, namely, in that part which concerneth _Policy_. In that which follows, the new science of human nature and human life--which is the end and term of this treatise, we are told--is brought out under the two heads of Morality and Policy; and it is necessary to look into _both_ these departments in order to find what application he was proposing to make of this art and science of Tradition and Delivery, and in order to see what place--what vital place it occupied in his system. CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF POLICY. 'Policy is the most immersed.'--_Advancement of Learning_. Reversing the philosophic order, we glance first into that new department of science which the author is here boldly undertaking to constitute under the above name, because in this his own practical designs, and rules of proceeding, are more clearly laid open, and the place which is assigned in his system to that radical science, for which these arts of Delivery and Tradition are chiefly wanting, is distinctly pointed out. And, moreover, in this department of Policy itself, in marking out one of the grand divisions of it, we find him particularly noticing, and openly insisting on, the form of delivery and inculcation which the new science must take here, that is, if it is going to be at all available as a science of practice.