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Whereupon he concludeth out of Stapleton, that we are bound to the performance of things prescribed by human laws, in such sort, that the non-performance of them is sin, not ex sola legislatoris voluntate, sed ex ipsa legum utilitate. If they say that we must think those laws to be profitable or convenient, which they, who are set over us, think to be so, then they know not what they say.
Come and see for yourselves, was his constant cry." Harveian Oration, Dr. J.F. Payne, 1896. Opera, tom. x. p. 462. De Vita Propria, ch. xxviii. p. 73. Ibid., ch. xxiii. p. 64. De Utilitate, p. 309. He also writes at length in the Proxenata on Domestic Economy. Opera, tom. i. p. 377. De Vita Propria, ch. xxxvii. p. 118. De Varietate, p. 589. De Varietate, p. 589. Ibid., p. 640.
Another reason may be found for the long-continued prosperity of Venice, in her constant adherence to a precept, the neglect of which must at length shake, or rather loosen the foundations of every state; for it is a maxim here, handed down from generation to generation, that change breeds more mischief from its novelty, than advantage from its utility: quoting the axiom in Latin, it runs thus: Ipsa mutatio consuetudinis magis perturbat novitate, quam adjuvat utilitate.
He was paid for his work by the sheet, and the thicker the volume the higher the pay. When he made a beginning of the De Utilitate Cardan was at the zenith of his fortunes. He had lately returned from his journey to Scotland, having made a triumphant progress through the cities of Western Europe.
Compare De Vita Propria, chaps. iv. and xxxi. pp. 13 and 92. De Vita Propria, ch. xxxi. p. 92. In taking the other view he writes: "Vitam ducebam in Saccensi oppido, ut mihi videbar, infelicissime." Opera, tom. i. p. 97. De Utilitate, p. 235. He gives a long and interesting sketch of his father-in-law in De Utilitate, p. 370. De Vita Propria, ch. xxvi. p. 68; Opera, tom. i. p. 97.
It must ever remain a mystery why he was preferred, why he was elected, and why he consented to serve: though, as to the last-named matter, he hints in a passage lately cited from De Utilitate, that it was through the persuasions of his mother that he took upon himself this disastrous honour. Many pasages in his writings suggest that Chiara was an indulgent parent.
Luis de Paramo, for instance, in his book 'De Origine et Progressu Officii Sanctoe Inquisitionis, ejusque dignitate et utilitate, proves God to be the first Inquisitor, and that in the Garden of Eden was the first auto da fe.
Cuius quidem non utilitas me solum, ut ante dixi, sed etiam cultura et natura ipsa delectat: adminiculorum ordines, capitum iugatio, religatio et propagatio vitium, sarmentorum ea, quam dixi, aliorum amputatio, aliorum immissio. Quid ego irrigationes, quid fossiones agri repastinationesque proferam quibus fit multo terra fecundior? 54 Quid de utilitate loquar stercorandi?
"At uxor mea imaginabatur assidue se videre calvariam patris, qui erat absens dum utero gereret Jo: Baptistam." Paralipomenon, lib. iii. c. 21. De Utilitate, p. 832. "Post ex geminatis somniis, scripsi libros de Subtilitate quos impressos auxi et denuo superauctos tertio excudi curavi." De Vita Propria, ch. xlv. p. 175.
His style, according to Naudé, held a middle place between the high-flown and the pedestrian, and of all his books the De Utilitate ex Adversis Capienda, which was begun in 1557, shows the nearest approach to elegance, but even this is not free from diffuseness, the fault which Naudé finds in all his writings. Long dissertations entirely alien from the subject in hand are constantly interpolated.
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