'It would be too _long_,' he says, 'to inquire here into the operation of all these social forces that are making men, that are doing more to make them what they are, than nature herself is doing,' for, 'know thou,' the Poet of this Philosophy says, 'know thou MEN ARE as the TIME IS.' He has included here, in these points which he would have scientifically handled, that which makes _times_, that which _can be altered_, that which Advancements of Learning, however, set on foot at first, are sure in the end to _alter_. 'We will insist upon some one or two as an example of the rest.' And we find that the points he resumes to speak of here, are, indeed, points of primary consequence; social forces that do indeed need a scientific control, effects reported, and precepts concluded. Custom and Habit, Books and Studies, and then a kind of culture, which he says, 'seemeth to be more accurate and elaborate than the rest,' which we find, upon examination, to be a strictly religious culture, and lastly the method to which he gives the preference, as the most compendious and summary in its formative or reforming influence, 'the _electing_ and propounding unto a man's self _good and virtuous ends of his life_, such as may be in a _reasonable sort within his compass to attain_.' He says enough under these heads to show the difficulty of writing on a subject where the science has been reported wanting, while the 'Art and Practice' is prescribed. He lays much stress on CUSTOM and HABIT, and gives some few precepts for its management, 'made out of the pith and heart of sciences,' but he speaks briefly, and chiefly for the purpose of indicating the value he attaches to this point, for he concludes his precepts and observations on it, thus: 'Many other axioms there are, touching the managing of exercise and custom, which being _so conducted_,-- scientifically conducted--do prove, _indeed_ ANOTHER NATURE' ['almost, can _change_ the stamp of nature,'--is Hamlet's word on _this_ point]; 'but being governed by _chance_, doth commonly prove but AN APE of nature, and bringeth forth that which is _lame and counterfeit_.' For not less than that is the difference between the scientific administration of these things, from which the mind _suffereth_, and the blind, hap-hazard one.