Deucalion was thus, according to both authors, the common ancestor of the human race.

What Shake-speare meant by "both worlds" is explained in Bacon. One of the latter's tracts is called 'A Description of the Intellectual Globe.'

880

EDUCATION OF THE DRAMATIST

"Shallow. Sir, I dare say, my cousin William is become a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he not?

Silence. Indeed, sir, to my cost.

"This work I knew not to whom to dedicate rather than to the Society of Gray's Inn, the place whence my father was called to the highest place of justice, and

The course of study recommended by Justice Shallowfrom the Universities to the Inns of Court-was the one actually pursued by Bacon. And it was the one which the anonymous author of a book, entitled 'Polymanteia,' and published in Cambridge in 1595, tells us was also pursued by the poet who wrote the 'Venus and Adonis.' That the latter could by any possibility have been William Shakspere of Stratford will not be contended. No person by that name was ever matriculated at either of the universities or enrolled at one of the Inns of Court. And yet, as this contemporary in the book above-mentioned publicly assures us, the author of the poem, 'Venus and Adonis,' was so matriculated or so enrolled. Whoever he may have been, therefore, it is beyond all question that he was personally known by a pseudonym. And that pseudonym, as the writer of the book also tells us, was Shakespeare.

881 SYLLOGISMS

From Shake-speare "Anything that's mended is but patched: virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy? As there is no true cuckhold but calamity, so beauty's a flower." - Twelfth Night, i. 5 (1623).

From Bacon

"I therefore reject the syllogism; and that not only as regards principles (for to principles the logicians themselves do not apply it), but also as regards middle propositions; which, though obtainable no doubt by the syllogism, are, when so obtained, barren of works, remote from practice, and altogether unavailable for the active department of the sciences." - Plan of the Instauratio (1620).