... Hanc syllogen generalem materiae probatoriae

(edit. vet.) p. 1. lib. 1. cap. 14. n. 2. It checks the course of need and poverty, and brings the necessary aids of life, Nov. 1. in fin. And for this reason it is called most holy, and ought not to be valued by monetary price nor dishonored, l. 1. §. 5. ff. de extraord. cognit. Franc. Pfeil cent. 2. cons. 197. n. 6. Heig. p. 2. q. 26. n. 9. & 3. seqq. Rulad. d. n. 2. & 3. Cubach cent. 3. decur. 7. q. 7. b) Matth. Coler us de process. execut. p. 1. cap. 10. n. 54.

Hence, Aristotle, that excellent genius of nature, admonishes again and again in his precepts on life and morals, that τὴν ὁρμὴν [the impulse], that is, the innate instinct and propensity of the mind, must be observed with due study of attention in performing human acts and deeds, lest the freedom of the will, which is accustomed to be drawn into various modes and forms, l. 4. in fin. ff. ad SCt. Trebell. l. 17. §. 6. ff. de recept. arbit. l. un. §. 1. ff. de libert. universit. be constrained, l. 71. §. 2. ff. de condit. & demonstr. and dogs be led to hunt against their will (to use a proverbial formula of speech). Erasmus Roterod. Chiliad. 1. cent. 7. adag. 65, the most faithful champion of refined literature. For the will arises from a preceding choice and appetite for some object, impressed upon the more intimate recesses of the soul. But indeed, where there is nothing pleasing and desired, where the mere constriction and, as it were, captivity of a more expansive and eager will takes hold of matters, what firmness and stability of appetite and choice can there be? arg. l. 1. ff. quod metus caus. & l. 116. in pr. ff. de R. I. c) Thence it is found ennobled by narrow and gloriously commended praises for the memory of posterity. For it is reported to provide an inexpressible convenience, to restore sight to those wandering in the forum. To pave an easy, smooth, and open path for the judge to adjudicate, to bring aid to the oppressed, to expel cavils and empty sophisms, and to be the cause that, to each person, what is his own may be preserved safe and sound. Mascardus de probat. vol. 1. q. 1. n. 1. 13. & 14. Donellus 25. comm. 1. in pr. Zangerus in tr. de Except. (edit. vet.) p. 1. cap. 2. num. 9. Treutl. vol. 2. disp. 23. th. 3. lit. C. so much so, that those things which cannot be proved and shown are held as not done nor existent. Vvesenb. in παρ. ff. h. n. 1.

It is said to be, most of all, crowded and surrounded by the bends and knots of labyrinths; both in regard to breadth, which has no defined region whose boundaries hold it enclosed, since all things, whatsoever can fall into human dispute, must be proved by him who proposes them; and in regard to the quality of an incomprehensible subject matter, which can be grasped by no art of the teacher nor by any certain rule. Pacianus d. lib. 1. cap. 5. n. 22. 23. & 25. Mascardus d. loc. n. 19. And for this reason, it deserves rightly not to be passed by with closed eyes, but to be explained by special annotation and treatise. arg. l. 15. §. 26. ff. de injur. & cap. 22. ext. de sent. excomm. d) For it is not permitted to wander ἀπροαιρέτως καὶ ἀπροβουλεύτως [without deliberation and without counsel], that is, without a destined purpose of mind and in an unordered and unadorned manner, but a certain end must be placed before the eyes for any agent (like a goal set before the archers), as Aristotle pronounces in his Ethics, lest we seem to approach the likeness of donkeys, who carry wheat to the mill and are ignorant of the end of their own duty, as says that most dexterous master of subtlety, Julius Caesar Scaliger. This end, therefore, and rule, as if a Lesbian one, to which our positions must be brought and reduced, let it be ἀληθογνωσία [knowledge of truth] or the investigation of the true. That, immersed in the deepest well of oblivion according to Democritus, since it must otherwise be sought with all diligence and through every path, is the very goal of the discussion. l. ult. §. 4. post pr. C. de Episc. aud. l. 6. C. de serv.