3.--If any man _considering_ the PARTS THEREOF WHICH I HAVE ENUMERATED, do judge that my labor is to collect into an ART or SCIENCE, that which hath been pretermitted _by_ OTHERS, as matters of common sense and experience, _he_ judgeth well. But if there be any doubt, about the more critical of these meanings, let us read on, and we shall find the criticism of this great and greatest proposition, the proposition to substitute learning for preconception, in the main department of human practice, brought out with all the emphasis and significance which becomes the close of so great a period in sciences, and not without a little flowering of that rhetoric, in which beauty is the incident, and discretion is more than eloquence. 'But as Philocrates sported with Demosthenes you may not marvel, Athenians, that _Demosthenes_ and I do differ, for _he_ drinketh water, and _I_ drink wine. And like as we read of an ancient parable of the two gates of sleep-- Sunt geminae somni portae, quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes. 'So if we put on _sobriety and attention_ we shall find it a sure maxim in knowledge, _that the more pleasant liquor of wine is the more vaporous_, and the braver gate of ivory sendeth forth the falser dreams.' CHAPTER VI. METHOD OF CONVEYING THE WISDOM OF THE MODERNS It is a basilisk unto mine eyes,-- _Kills me to look_ on't, This fierce abridgment Hath to it circumstantial branches, which Distinction should be rich in. _Cymbeline_.