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 1 Pro |        any foundation. For while men are occupied in admiring
 2 Ded |         and luck as well in what men think as in what they do
 3 Pre |          it.~It seems to me that men do not rightly understand
 4 Pre |       the path of knowledge, for men have neither desire nor
 5 Pre | circumlocution stripped off, and men be duly warned not to exaggerate
 6 Pre |    constructions, in so far that men shall sooner leave the study
 7 Pre |  afterwards degenerate. For when men have once made over their
 8 Pre |         out of their own course: men of capacity and intellect
 9 Pre |          the common condition of men and nature than upon themselves.
10 Pre |        level from which it fell. Men of this kind, therefore,
11 Pre |       themselves either to other men's opinions or to their own,
12 Pre |         therefore, it seems that men have not been happy hitherto
13 Pre |   abstract meditation, wonderful men. But, as in former ages,
14 Pre |          as in former ages, when men sailed only by observation
15 Pre |       rather than light to other men's minds. I have not sought (
16 Pre |       either to force or ensnare men's judgments, but I lead
17 Pre |       said my prayers, I turn to men, to whom I have certain
18 Pre |          also my prayer) is that men confine the sense within
19 Pre |       which is in hand I entreat men to believe that it is not
20 Pre |          business itself) — that men will consider well how far,
21 Plan|          at all obscure, so that men may not perhaps easily understand
22 Plan|        reputation only and other men's interests were not concerned
23 Plan|         are in fact things which men may certainly command if
24 Plan|   inquiry nearer the source than men have done heretofore, submitting
25 Plan|    nature must be sought, unless men mean to go mad) and a not
26 Plan|           But since the minds of men are strangely possessed
27 Plan|       than the sense is. For let men please themselves as they
28 Plan|    argumentation; no, not if all men's wits could meet in one.
29 Plan|        has been the condition of men in this matter that it is
30 Plan|          fact (low and vulgar as men may think it) count more
31 Plan|         in which I made it, that men, knowing exactly how each
32 Plan|        by way of an assurance to men that they will not be kept
33 Plan|          condition of things and men's minds cannot easily be