PART xn

him thl'ijgs Good, Ill, and IndifTerent, he can' only hear the Things he faith, but not .know them. For if he did underftand them whilft he is in his Folly, Folly alfo might contemplate things Good ing to them , Folly contemplates not thefe, ( otherwife a Fooliflt Perfon were Wife ) there¬ fore the Foolifli underfband not by Learning the things faid or done by the Wife; but if he un- derftands not, he cannot be taught by him any way, but by Evidence and Difeourfe, as we faid before. Now if that which is called the Art concerning Life, is neither communicated by Learning and Difcipline, nor by Nature, it is not to be found out by the Philofophers, who cry it up fo much.
CHAP. xxxr.
li^ethcr the /rt concerning Life he profitable to him rc'ho hath it.
Moreover, though we fliould grant^^ that the Art which they dream of concerning LiiP, may be communicated, yet it will rather appear hurtful and troublefome to thofe that have it, than beneficial. We will take but one inffance for brevity. The Art concerping Life may be profitable to a Wife. Man'in giving him Continence in Appetition of Good, arid Averfi- on from Ill. For he, whom they call Continent, is faid to be fuch, either for that he hath no Ap¬ petition to Ill, nor Averfion from Good 5 or for that he hath ill Appetitions and Averfions, but mailers them by Reafon : But as far as he is not in ill Judgments, he is not Continent ; for he is not Continent in that which he hath not. And as no Man faith, an Eunuch is Continent in Venereal Pleafures ; Or, he who hath no Ap¬ petite, Continent in Eating, ( for they have not thofe things, that by Continence might be fub- dned ) in like manner, a Wife Man cannot be faid to be Continent, beCaufe he hath not in himfelf the PafTion whereof he fliould be Conti¬ nent. Bnt if they will fay. He is Continent, for that he is in ill Judgments, but overmaflers them by Reafon .* Fir ft, they muft Grant, that Wif- dom hath profited him liothirig ; forafmuch as he is ftill in trouble, and needeth help : Next be will be found to be mere unfortunate than thofe^ who are faid to be bad. For if he hath an Ap¬ petite towards any thing, he is wholly diftnrb- ed ; if be overmafters it with Reafon, he con-
taineth the Ill within himfelf, and thereupon is more troubled than the Ill Perfon, who fuffer- eth not this ; For if he hath an Appetite to any thing, he is troubled j but if he obtain his Dc- fire, the Trouble ceafeth. A Wife Man there¬ fore, either is not Continent as to Wifdom; or if he be, he is of all Men the moft unhappy j fo that the Art concerning. Life affords him not Benefit, but extraordinary T rouble. Now that he, who conceiveth that he hath the Art con¬ cerning Life, and thereby knoweth what things are Good and III in their own Nature, is exceed¬ ingly troubled, as well when the Good are pre- fent as when the Ill, we (hewed heretofore, Wc muft therefore fay. If the fubfiftence of things Good, Ill, and Indifferent, be not undoubtedly a Knowledge and the Art concerning Life ^ perhaps infubfiftent alfo ; and though it were granted by fuppofition to fubfift, yet would it bring ho profit to thofe who have it, but on the contrary, great Trouble ; the Dogmatifts look Supercilioufly, and take pride in vain, iil the Ethical part of that which they call Philofo- phy. A,nq with tbis.Difputation (not to ex¬ ceed .the. limits of a Summary,) we (hall dofc our Third Book of Pyrrhonian Hypotypofes^ add-* ing only this.
CHAP. XXXII.
IVhy the Seeptkk^ fometimes on fet piifpofe^ eth weak Arguments.
THeSceptici^ by realbn of his great Hulliani- ty, endeavours with Dilcoiirfeto remedy, as tar as in him lies,the Arrogance and rafli In- folence of the Dogmatifts, As therefore Phyfi- cians, in Corporeal Difeafes, have Remedies of different forts, applying violent to thofe who arc violently fick, but gentle to thofe whofe Di- feafeis more gentle; In like manner, the Argu¬ ments propofed by the Sceptick aie not all of equal force; but the more folid, which arc bell able to overthrow the affeftioh of the Dogma¬ tifts, he ufeth againft thofe who are moft vio¬ lently affeded therewith, the lighteragainft thofe who haye it more lightly and fupeificially ; fo as that they may be overthrown by lighter pro¬ babilities. Whence it happens that the Scey~ tick, fomtiraes, alledgeth (Ironger Probabilities and Argurnents; fomtimes , on fet purpofc, weaker, as often perceiving them fuffiejent to compafs his Deflgn.
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His Country j Parents^ Brethren',
EPieufus IS by fome conceived to have been a Samian ^ for Timon { in (a) Laertius') faith, he was the iaft of the Natural Philofophers that
came out of Scainus ', And (fc) Con/^antims Por- C^) Lib. i. da ^lyrogeneta conceives, that he derived his Ori- ginal hrem Samus^ as well as Pythagoras, But
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t'le occafion of this was, for that be paiTed tbe^ lirft p?k'/ oi l|psc'^^o\^gsr^ars at Safm^ v^ch bis Fstlifer abi.\iBriihV^-,^r ^tbitker- cin/bis fc") De Mat. Father, ^^npefaj as (t) Cicero terms bim, (that def r. Lib. i. is, cnc wbo clatmetb a portion in the divifion ("i) Lib. 12. of Lands.) Upon the like ground Sfrito;
conceives him a. LatnlfMme _ for h^uliv^d at, L impfjcum^ and; edilftterfwl with tHe c^ef .i’er.r.^ fonMges there. But Epicurus indeed was by (e) Loc. Cif. O^critry an /'thinian^ as {eYLaertius^ (f)Suidas^ and infinite other Writers affirm^ whence (^) Liertius^ about to ptaife him, begins thus.
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Ihiig, either to them, or of them, as alive; ljut only appcOTted^^tO;^ for
his Bfkhren ifc the MoktilPb/JU«a)i^i(y^d^ugli of Chxrcdemus there is no fiTrther Teffimony
yet orjri^obulus it is moTe a^pafent1iWx4wA(lr.a/,».
PlUiarih 3wli» writes, that Epicurus was wholly mabov^ Metradorus^ Poly^^smus^ and Jri- yl£>y«ijlreftfflag l^icknefs, and
Mourning for them' when they Dyed. But of Neocles it is moft manifeft, from the fame Plutarch^ relating, that Epicurus broke forth in¬ to a kind of Joy, mixt with Tears, upon the re¬ membrance of the laft Words of Ntocles, Of how great and painful SickneHes they died, is fufficiently aggravated by (c) Plutarch and {d)(^'
Suidas. , C*t»
ib) In Lcxkis. (/) In Ibefeo,
(k) De Urb. (/) Loc. Cif.
(m) Si]v. Lib.