'And therefore we see, that _Plautus_ maketh it a wonder to see an OLD man beneficent. _St. Paul_ concludeth that severity of _discipline_ was to be used to the _Cretans_, ("increpa eos dure"), upon _the disposition_ of THEIR COUNTRY. "Cretenses semper mendaces, malæ bestize, ventres pigri." _Sallust_ noteth that it is usual with KINGS to desire _contradictories_; "Sed plerumque, regiæ voluntates, ut vehementes sunt sic mobiles saepeque ipsæ sibi adversæ." _Tacitus_ observeth how rarely THE RAISING OF THE FORTUNE mendeth the disposition. "Solus Vespasianus mutatus in melius." _Pindar_ maketh an observation that great and sudden fortune for the most part defeateth men. So _the Psalm_ showeth it more easy to keep a measure in the enjoying of fortune, than in the increase of fortune; "Divitiæ si affluant nolite cor apponere."' '_These observations, and the like_,'--what book is it that has so many of '_the like_'?--'I deny not but are touched a little by Aristotle _as in passage_ in his _Rhetorics_, and are handled in some scattered discourses.' One would think it was another philosopher, with pretensions not at all inferior, but professedly very much, and altogether superior to those of Aristotle, whose short-comings were under criticism here; 'but they (_these observations_) were never INCORPORATED _into moral philosophy_, to which they do ESSENTIALLY appertain, as THE KNOWLEDGE of THE DIVERSITY of GROUND and MOULDS doth to _agriculture_, and the knowledge of the DIVERSITY of COMPLEXIONS and CONSTITUTIONS doth to the _physician_; except'--note it--'except we mean to follow the indiscretion of empirics, which minister _the same medicines to all patients_.' Truly this does appear to give us some vistas of a _science_, and a 'pretty one,' for these particulars and illustrations are here, that we may see the better what it is, and whether it be extant. That is the question. And it happens singularly enough, to be a question just as pertinent now, as it was when the philosopher put it on his paper, two hundred and fifty years ago.