Prudence farther implies a large experience; whence boys, who can become good mathematicians, cannot have practical judgment or prudence.

In consultation, we are liable to error both in regard to universals, and in regard to particulars; it is the business of prudence, as well as of the political science, to guard against both.

That prudence is not identical with Science, is plain enough; for Science is the intermediate process between the first principles and the last conclusions; whereas prudence consists chiefly in seizing these last, which are the applications of reasoning, and represent the particular acts to be done.

Prudence is the counterpart of Reason [Greek: Nous] or Intellect, but at the opposite extremity of the mental process.

For Intellect [Greek: Nous] apprehends the extreme Universals,--the first principles,--themselves not deducible, but from which deduction starts; while Prudence fastens on the extreme particulars, which are not known by Science, but by sensible Perception.