But under the cover of introducing the 'Wisdom of the Ancients,' and the form in which that was conveyed, he explains more at large the conditions which this kind of exhibition best meets; he claims it as a proper form of _learning_, and tells us outright, that the New Science _must be_ conveyed in it. He has left us here, all prepared to our hands, precisely the argument which the subject now under consideration requires. 'Upon deliberate consideration, my judgment is, that a _concealed instruction_ and _allegory_, was originally intended in many of the ancient fables; observing that some fables discover a great and evident similitude, relation, and connection with the things they signify, as well in the _structure of the fable_, as in the _propriety of the names_ whereby _the persons or actors are characterised_, insomuch that no one could positively deny a sense and meaning to be from the first intended and purposely shadowed out in them'; and he mentions some instances of this kind; and the first is a very explanatory one, tending to throw light upon the proceedings of men whose rebellions, so far as political action is concerned, have been successfully repressed. And he takes occasion to introduce this particular fable repeatedly in similar connections. 'For who can hear that _Fame_, after the giants were destroyed, sprung up as their _posthumous sister_, and not apply it to the clamour of _parties_, and the seditious rumours which commonly fly about upon the _quelling of insurrections_. _Or_ who, upon hearing that memorable expedition of the gods against the giants, when the braying of _Silenus' ass_ greatly contributed in putting the giants to flight, does not clearly conceive that this directly _points_ to the _monstrous_ enterprises of _rebellious subjects_, which are frequently disappointed and frustrated by _vain fears and empty rumours_. Nor is it wonder if sometimes a _piece of history_ or other things are introduced by way of ornament, or if _the times_ of the action are confounded,' [the very likeliest thing in the world to happen; things are often 'forced in _time_' as he has given us to understand in complimenting a king's book where the person was absent but not the occasion], 'or if part of one fable be tacked to another, for all this must necessarily happen, as the fables were the invention of men who lived in _different ages_, and had _different views_, some of them being _ancient_, others more _modern_, some having an eye to _natural philosophy_, _others_ to _morality_ and _civil policy_.' This appears to be just the kind of criticism we happen to be in need of in conducting our present inquiry, and the passage which follows is not less to the purpose.