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The true End of all Humane Learning •• to supply in our selves and others the defect•• which proceed from our Ignorance of the n••••ture and use of the Creatures, and the diso••••derliness of our naturall faculties in usi•• them and reflecting upon them.
From this Truth follow these Rules •• Teaching.
1. That nothing is to be counted a Mat•• of true Learning amongst men, which is n•• directly serviceable unto Mankind towar••
••he supply of some of these defects, which de∣••rive us of some part of our naturall Hap∣••iness.
2. That if any doth Teach or Learne any ••cience for any other end but this; he doth by the false end, which he proposeth to him∣••••lf in Teaching or Learning) pervert the Truth either of the Science, or of the Method ••ereof, or of both: by which meanes, the ••emedie of our disease being spoiled; he ma∣••eth so farre as in him lyeth our sickness in∣••rable.
3. That none ought to be taught any ••atter of science, before he doth understand ••e true end, wherefore he is to learne it, and ••ow he ought to use it▪ towards that end: for •• he be ignorant of these two, he will not ••nly lose his labour; but may become hurt∣••ll to himself and others by his knowledge. ••or as a thorne goeth up into the hand of a ••unkard; so is a parable in the mouth of fools. ••rov. 26.9. And at the best he will be un∣••rviceable and disproportionat to others in ••s walking therby: For as the legs of the ••me are not equall, so will a parable be in the ••outh of a foole Prov. 16.7. Now, he is a ••ole who knoweth not the end and use of ••e things which he hath.
4. That to marshall sciences rightly, that they ••ay be taught orderly and profitably; The
subordination of their severall ends to eac•• other (as they jointly relate unto man to sup••ply his defects) and the way of teaching th•• same (as it is sutable to the Capacity of thos•• that are to be taught) must be observed: so if these things be not observed; either th•• sciences will be made useless to each other, o•• all of them, to him that is taught. For, ho•• can he, that teacheth them, benefit his Scho••lars therby? For the Encyclopedia of Scienc•• must answer the whe••l of humane facultie and this wheel must answer the Circle of th•• Creatures whence man is to supply his d••••fects. As then in a watch, one wheel right set, doth with its teeth take hold of anothe•• and sets that a work towards a third; and all move one by another, when they are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 their right places for the end for which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 watch is made: so is it with the Faculties 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the humane nature, being rightly ordered 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the ends for which God hath created the•• but, contrarywise, if the wheels be not right set, or the watch duly wound up; it is useless •• him that hath it; and so it is with the Facult•• of Man; if his wheels be not rightly order and wound up by the ends of Sciences in th•• subordination; leading him to employ •• same, according to his Capacity, to make •• of the Creatures for that wherunto 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hath made them; he becomes not only usele••••
••ut even a burthen, and hurtfull unto him∣••elf and others by the misusing of them.