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virtues, whereto the writing in Method doth not approach.
For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or
solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be rediculous,
cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for
discourse of illustration is cut off: recitals of examples are
cut off; discourse of connection and order is cut off;
descriptions of practice are cut off. So there remaineth
nothing to fill the Aphorisms but some good quantity of
observation: and therefore no man can suffice, nor in
reason will attempt to write Aphorisms, but he that is
sound and grounded. But in Methods,
Tantum series juncturaque pollet,
Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris;
as a man shall make a great shew of an art, which, if it