{"product_id":"2940012472595","title":"A Discourse OF A METHOD For the well guiding of REASON The Discovery of Truth In the Sciences","description":"To the _Understanding READER_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Great DESCARTES (who may justly challenge the first place amongst\u003cbr\u003ethe Philosophers of this Age) is the Author of this Discourse; which in\u003cbr\u003ethe Originall was so well known, That it could be no mans but his own,\u003cbr\u003ethat his Name was not affix'd to it: I need say no more either of Him\u003cbr\u003eor It; He is best made known by Himself, and his Writings want nothing\u003cbr\u003ebut thy reading to commend them. But as those who cannot compasse the\u003cbr\u003eOriginals of _Titian_ and _Van-Dyke_, are glad to adorne their Cabinets\u003cbr\u003ewith the Copies of them; So be pleased favourably to receive his Picture\u003cbr\u003efrom my hand, copied after his own Designe: You may therein observe the\u003cbr\u003elines of a well form'd Minde, The hightnings of Truth, The sweetnings\u003cbr\u003eand shadowings of Probabilities, The falls and depths of Falshood; all\u003cbr\u003ewhich serve to perfect this Masterpiece. Now although my after-draught\u003cbr\u003ebe rude and unpolished, and that perhaps I have touch'd it too boldly,\u003cbr\u003eThe thoughts of so clear a Minde, being so extremely fine, That as the\u003cbr\u003echoisest words are too grosse, and fall short fully to expresse such\u003cbr\u003esublime Notions; So it cannot be, but being transvested, it must\u003cbr\u003enecessarily lose very much of its native Lustre: Nay, although I am\u003cbr\u003econscious (notwithstanding the care I have taken neither to wrong the\u003cbr\u003eAuthours Sense, nor offend the Readers Ear) of many escapes which I have\u003cbr\u003emade; yet I so little doubt of being excused, That I am confident, my\u003cbr\u003eendeavour cannot but be gratefull to all Lovers of Learning; for whose\u003cbr\u003ebenefit I have Englished, and to whom I addresse this Essay, which\u003cbr\u003econtains a Method, by the Rules whereof we may Shape our better part,\u003cbr\u003eRectifie our Reason, Form our Manners and Square our Actions, Adorn our\u003cbr\u003eMindes, and making a diligent Enquiry into Nature, wee may attain to the\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge of the Truth, which is the most desirable union in the World.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Authour also invites all letterd men to his assistance in the\u003cbr\u003eprosecution of this Search; That for the good of Mankinde, They would\u003cbr\u003epractise and communicate Experiments, for the use of all those who\u003cbr\u003elabour for the perfection of Arts and Sciences: Every man now being\u003cbr\u003eobliged to the furtherance of so beneficiall an Undertaking, I could not\u003cbr\u003ebut lend my hand to open the Curtain, and discover this New Model of\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy; which I now publish, neither to humour the present, nor\u003cbr\u003edisgust former times; but rather that it may serve for an innocent\u003cbr\u003eDivertisement to those, who would rather Reform themselves, then the\u003cbr\u003erest of the world; and who, having the same seeds and grounds, and\u003cbr\u003eknowing That there is nothing New under the Sun; That Novelty is but\u003cbr\u003eOblivion, and that Knowledge is but Remembrance, will study to finde\u003cbr\u003eout in themselves, and restore to Posterity those lost Arts, which\u003cbr\u003erender Antiquity so venerable; and strive (if it be possible) to go\u003cbr\u003ebeyond them in other things, as well as Time: Who minde not those things\u003cbr\u003ewhich are above, beyond, or without them; but would rather limit their\u003cbr\u003edesires by their power, then change the Course of Nature; Who seek the\u003cbr\u003eknowledge, and labour for the Conquest of themselves; Who have Vertue\u003cbr\u003eenough to make their own Fortune; And who prefer the Culture of the\u003cbr\u003eMinde before the Adorning of the Body; To such as these I present this\u003cbr\u003eDiscourse (whose pardon I beg, for having so long detain'd them from so\u003cbr\u003edesirable a Conversation;) and conclude with this Advice of the Divine\u003cbr\u003e_Plato_:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Cogita in te, præter Animum, nihil esse mirabile._","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163908129008,"sku":"2940012472595","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012472595_p0.jpg?v=1763569331","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012472595","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}