Capitolo 90
Looking again with pleasure at the past.
The last method that I proposed in the paper of my Saturday, to file
on those empty spaces of life that it is so tedious and burthensome
to idle about people, is the to assume him in the search of
knowledge. I remember the Mr. Boyle, while speaking of a certain mineral,
it tells us that a man can consume his/her whole life in his study
without reaching the knowledge of all of his/her qualities. The truth
of he is, there is not an only science or some branch of him that,
doesn't furnish a man with business for the life, although is a lot
more from a lot that is.
I am not able here appointments on those beaten subjects of the utility
of knowledge, neither of the pleasure and perfection it gives the mind,
neither on the methods to reach him/it, neither it recommends some particular
branch of him; everybody that has been the themes of many other writers;
but it will be satisfied in a speculation that is not common, and
therefore, you/he/she is perhaps entertaining, more.
I have shown first as the unused parts of the life they appear from very and
tedious, and it is able here endeavour to show as those parts of the life
what they are practiced in study, while reading, and the searches of
knowledge, is long, but not tedious, and from this means they discover a
method to lengthen our lives, and to the same duration to turn everybody
the parts of them to our advantage.
The Mr. Locke observes, "That we find the idea of time or the duration, from
reflecting on that train of ideas in which you/they succeed our each other
chins: what, for this reason, when we tastily sleep without
dreaming, we don't have any perception of time or his length while
we sleep; and what the moment where we go as to think, up to
the moment that we start to think again, seems not to have distance." To
what the author adds, "and so I don't doubt but you/he/she would be a
awake man, if it were possible for him to only hold one the idea in his
you mind, without variation and the succession of others; and we see