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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 19. XIII. Of Experience. CHAPTER XIII OF EXPERIENCE There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge. We try all ways that can lead us to it; where reason is wanting, we therein employ experience,               "Per varios usus artem experientia fecit,                Exemplo monstrante viam,"      ["By various trials experience created art, example shewing the      way."—Manilius, i. 59.] which is a means much more weak and cheap; but t