whether <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> had he but &longs;een the novelties di&longs;covered in Hea­
<lb/> ven, would not have changed his opinion, amended his Books,
<lb/> and embraced the more &longs;en&longs;ible Doctrine; rejecting tho&longs;e &longs;illy
<lb/> Gulls, which too &longs;crupulou&longs;ly, go about to defend what ever he
<lb/> hath &longs;aid; not con&longs;idering, that if <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> were &longs;uch a one as
<lb/> they fancy him to them&longs;elves, he would be a man of an untracta­
<lb/> ble wit, an ob&longs;tinate mind, a barbarous &longs;oul, a &longs;tubborn will,
<lb/> that accounting all men el&longs;e but as &longs;illy &longs;heep, would have his
<lb/> Oracles preferred before the Sen&longs;es, Experience, and Nature her
<lb/> &longs;elf? </s><s>They are the Sectators of <emph type="italics"/>Aristotle<emph.end type="italics"/> that have given him this
<lb/> Authority, and not he that hath u&longs;urped or taken it upon him;
<lb/> and becau&longs;e it is more ea&longs;ie for a man to &longs;culk under anothers
<lb/> &longs;hield than to &longs;hew him&longs;elf openly, they tremble, and are affraid
<lb/> to &longs;tir one &longs;tep from him; and rather than they will admit &longs;ome
<lb/> alterations in the Heaven of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> they will impertinently de­
<lb/> ny tho&longs;e they behold in the Heaven of <emph type="italics"/>Nature.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg238"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Some of<emph.end type="italics"/> Ari&longs;to­
<lb/> tles <emph type="italics"/>Sectators im­
<lb/> pare the reputation
<lb/> of their Ma&longs;ter, in
<lb/> going about to en­
<lb/> han&longs;e it.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>The&longs;e kind of Drolleries put me in mind of that Statu­
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg239"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> ary which having reduced a great piece of Marble to the Image of
<lb/> an <emph type="italics"/>Hercules,<emph.end type="italics"/> or a thundring <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter,<emph.end type="italics"/> I know not whether, and
<lb/> given it with admirable Art &longs;uch a vivacity and threatning fury,
<lb/> that it moved terror in as many as beheld it; he him&longs;elf began
<lb/> al&longs;o to be affraid thereof, though all its &longs;prightfulne&longs;&longs;e, and life
<lb/> was his own workman&longs;hip; and his affrightment was &longs;uch, that
<lb/> he had no longer the courage to affront it with his Chizzels and
<lb/> Mallet.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg239"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>A ridiculous
<lb/> pa&longs;&longs;age of a certain
<lb/> Statuary.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>I have many times wondered how the&longs;e nice maintain­
<lb/> ers of what ever fell from <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> are not aware how great a pre­
<lb/> judice they are to his reputation and credit; and how that the
<lb/> more they go about to encrea&longs;e his Authority, the more they
<lb/> dimini&longs;h it; for while&longs;t I &longs;ee them ob&longs;tinate in their attempts
<lb/> to maintain tho&longs;e Propo&longs;itions which I palpably di&longs;cover to
<lb/> be manife&longs;tly fal&longs;e; and in their de&longs;ires to per&longs;wade me that
<lb/> &longs;o to do, is the part of a Philo&longs;opher; and that <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> him&longs;elf
<lb/> would do the &longs;ame, it much abates in me of the opinion that he
<lb/> hath rightly philo&longs;ophated about other conclu&longs;ions, to me more
<lb/> ab&longs;tru&longs;e: for if I could &longs;ee them concede and change opinion in
<lb/> a manife&longs;t truth, I would believe, that in tho&longs;e in which they
<lb/> &longs;hould per&longs;i&longs;t, they may have &longs;ome &longs;olid demon&longs;trations to me un­
<lb/> known, and unheard of.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Or when they &longs;hould be made to &longs;ee that they have ha­
<lb/> zarded too much of their own and <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/>'s repuatation in con­
<lb/> fe&longs;&longs;ing, that they had not under&longs;tood this or that conclu&longs;ion found
<lb/> out by &longs;ome other man; would it not be a le&longs;s evil for them to
<lb/> &longs;eek for it among&longs;t his Texts, by laying many of them together,
<lb/> according to the art intimated to us by <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s><s>for if his
