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hé TS SIRET ct PAT ac 44 A PANE@YRTOK For the better making itout it might per. haps be requifite to Invoke: the Aid of the Mufes; to whom. the: Poets: devoutly apply themfelves upon far more flender Occafions. Come then and affilt, ye Heléconéan Laffes, while I attempt to prove that there isno Method for an Arrivalto Wifdom, and confequently no Track to the Goal of Happinefs, without the Inftru€tions and Dire&ions of Folly. AnDhere, inthe firft place, it has been already acknowledged, that all the Paffions are Lifted under my Regiment, fince This is refolved to be the only Diftinétion betwixt a Wife Man and a Fool, that this latter is govern’d by Paffion, the other guided by Reafon: And therefore the Stroicks look upon Paffions no other’than the Infection ‘and Malady of the Soul, that diforders’ the’ Conftitution of the whole Man, and by putting’ the Spirits. into a Feavourifh Ferment, many times occafion fome Mortal Diftemper. And yet thefe, however decried, are not only our ‘Tutors to inftruét us toward the Attainment of Wifdomj}:but'e’en bolden us likewife, and {pur us on toa’ quicker Diſpatch of all our Undertakings. ‘This, I fuppofe, will be ftomach’d by the Stoical Serecz, who pretends, that the only Emblem of Wifdom is ‘he Man without Paſſion ; whereas the fuppoñng any Perſon to be fo, is perfe@ly to Unman him, or elfe Transforming him into fome fabulous Deity that never was, nor ever will be 5 nay, to ſpeak more plain, it is but the makinghim a meer Srarue, immoveable, fenflefs, and altogether unaQive. And if his be their WifeMan,
