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Melanchthon
"God placed into an intelligent nature knowledge of numbers in order to distinguish things...After Arithmetic has numbered everything, then dialectic comes along and attributes different names and definitions to distinct things; and it looks into the members, the parts, the causes, the effects, and other matters that are pertinent." "That is, method is the condition, or the discipline, or the art, of clearly making a path by a specific procedure. That is, as though through places impassable and overgrown to the senses, through the muddle of things, dialectic finds and opens a path.."
Agricola
"Just as the lyre or the cithara delight more delicate ears, so you will not inflame the soldiery except by a trumpet...For unless someone thinks prudently, he cannot speak prudently."