ART AND PROJECT
227. Art, is Good, where it is beneficial. Socrates wisely bounded his Knowledge and Instruction by Practice.
228. Have a care therefore of Projects: And yet despise nothing rashly, or in the Lump.
229. Ingenuity, as well as Religion, sometimes suffers between two Thieves; Pretenders and Despisers.
230. Though injudicious and dishonest Projectors often discredit Art, yet the most useful and extraordinary Inventions have not, at first, escaped the Scorn of Ignorance; as their Authors, rarely, have cracking of their Heads, or breaking their backs.
231. Undertake no Experiment, in Speculation, that appears not true in Art; nor then, at thine own Cost, if costly or hazardous in making.
232. As many Hands make light Work, so several Purses make cheap Experiments.