That apology would seem sufficient, but we must know what these labours and studies are, before we can perceive the _depth_ of it. And if we have the patience to follow him but a step or two further, we shall find ourselves in the way of some very direct and accurate information, as to that. For we are coming now, in the order of the work we quote from, to that very part, which contains the point of all these labours and studies, the _end_ of them,--that part to which the science of nature in general, and the secret of this art of tradition, was a necessary _introduction_. [For this Art of Tradition makes the link between the new Logic and the application of it to _Human_ Nature and Human Life.]
Thus far, this art has been treated as a means of simply _transferring_ knowledge, in such forms as the conditions of the Advancement of Learning prescribe,--forms adapted to the different stages of mental advancement, commencing with the lowest range of the common opinion in his time,--starting with the contemporary opinions of the majority, and reserving 'the secrets of knowledge,' for such as are able to receive them. Thus far, it is the Method, and the Organ of the tradition of which he has spoken. But it is when he comes to speak of what he calls the _Illustration_ of it, that the convergency of his design begins to be laid open to us, for this work is not what it may seem on the surface, as he takes pains to intimate to us--a 'mere muster-roll of sciences.'
It is when he comes to tell us that he will have his 'truth in beauty dyed,' that he does not propose to have the new learning left in the form of argument and logic, or in the form of bare scientific fact, that he does not mean to appeal with it to the _reason_ only; that he will have it in a form in which it will be able to attract and allure men, and make them in love with it, a form in which it will be able to force its way into the will and the affections, and make a lodgement in the hearts of men, long ere it is able to reach the judgment;--it is not till he begins to bring out here, his new doctrine of the true end of rhetoric, and the use to which it ought to be put in subordination to science, that we begin to perceive the significance of the arrangement which brings this theory of an Illustrated Art of Tradition into immediate connection with the new science of human nature and human life which the Author is about to constitute,--so as to serve as an introduction to it--the arrangement which interposes this art of Tradition, between the New Logic and its application to Human Nature and Human Life--to POLICY and MORALITY.