Compendium of Philosophical History

the blessed Buddeus himself, the third part of whose practical philosophy, which contains political doctrine, is here illustrated with such excellent commentaries that it claims for itself, by every right, an extraordinary dignity above other books of this science.

Others have approached this task to present a summary of this eclectic philosophy expressed in tables, and thus to consult the needs of those who are educated in the schools and who, besides the letters of humanity humanitatis litteras classical studies/liberal arts, learn the first elements of philosophy. For they rightly recognized that such tables, if their method and use are properly established, bring great utility to young people and cause them to survey the main chapters of the entire philosophy with their eyes, to see the connection by which these things hold together among themselves, and to aid the memory, to which, at this age, something