than in the attainment of right: ruin, confusion, and destruction being the ends of litigation, multitude, and violence. 1619. To conclude: if we have enlarged more than our design seems to require on the relations of revelation and philosophy, with a view to their reconciliation, it has been because they have been held in virulent hostility, to the manifest injury of the sacred cause of true religion,-the most important subject which can engage the thoughts, or influence the actions, of mankind. THE ANALOGY OF THE ARTS. PROEM. 1620. To the three comprehending attributes of mind or intellect,-being, knowing, and doing,and their three corresponding faculties, consciousness, understanding, and volition, we owe the three chief genera of Philosophy in like correspondence: namely, Ontology, or the philosophy of being, powers, elements, or principles,-whence Disciplines; Mesology, or the philosophy of knowing, or relations,-whence Sciences; and Teleology, or the philosophy of doing, or purposes, whence Arts. 1621. But as these distinctions are relative only, and not absolute, there will arise, under every change of view, some variation or interchange of their relations, some temperament essential to harmony. In the view of science, however, Ontology is the science of powers and Disci |