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Concerning the alteration and amendment of Philoſophy, we have (as much as at this preſent is needful) ſufficiently declared, to wit, that the ſame is altogether weak and faulty; yet we doubt not, although the moſt part falſly do alledge that ſhe (I know not how) is ſound and ſtrong, yet notwithſtanding ſhe fetches her laſt breath and is departing.
But as commonly, even in the ſame place or Country where there breaketh forth a new unaccuſtomed diſeaſe, Nature alſo there diſcovereth a medicine againſt the ſame; ſo there doth appear for ſo manifold infirmities of Philoſophy, the right means, and unto our Patna ſufficiently offered, whereby ſhe may become ſound again, which is now to be renewed and altogether new.
No other Philoſophy we have, then that which is the head & fum,the foundation and contents of all faculties, ſciences, and arts, the which (if we will behold our age) containeth much of Theology and medicine, but little of the wiſdom of Lawyers, and doth diligently ſearch both heaven and earth: or to ſpeak briefly there-
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