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1 Pro | nevertheless he was resolved not to abandon either it or himself, nor
2 Plan | business must be forever abandoned. But up to this day such
3 Pre | cannot be fairly asked to abide by the decision of a tribunal
4 Pre | which the arts and sciences abound, he will find everywhere
5 Plan | philosophy which held the absolute impossibility of knowing
6 Pre | thing not only useful, but absolutely necessary, that the excess
7 Pre | everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation, wonderful men.
8 Plan(1)| Hippomenes (or Melanion) accepted the challenge and, on the
9 Pre | s judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance
10 Plan | simpler than those which occur accidentally. For I drag into light many
11 Plan | and this I endeavor to accomplish not so much by instruments
12 Pre | certain definite works to be accomplished, and has pursued them with
13 Plan | intention is different, so, accordingly, is the effect; the effect
14 Pro | imbibes, stores up, and accumulates (and it is from them that
15 Ded | Your Majesty may perhaps accuse me of larceny, having stolen
16 Plan | natural history, not to let it accustom itself in the beginning
17 Pre | sciences to which we are accustomed have certain general positions
18 Pro | that they should be made acquainted with his thoughts.~Being
19 Pre | any one take this general acquiescence and consent for an argument
20 Pre | shapeless; afterwards they acquire new powers and more commodious
21 Plan | as much an object as the acquisition of more. Besides which it
22 Plan | demonstration by syllogism as acting too confusedly and letting
23 Plan | of the work); but I mean actual types and models, by which
24 | actually
25 Pre | natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to the creatures
26 Plan | myself discovered, proved, or added — not, however, according
27 Plan | ordinary divisions. For in adding to the total you necessarily
28 Pre | themselves that by making the addition they can assert their liberty,
29 Pre | that game. Lastly, I would address one general admonition to
30 Pre | the excess of honor and admiration with which our existing
31 Pre | hardly possible at once to admire an author and to go beyond
32 Plan | will in admiring and almost adoring the human mind, this is
33 Pre | amend some things, but advance little, and improve the
34 Plan(1)| the challenge and, on the advice of Aphrodite, dropped three
35 Pro | nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her, are within
36 Ded | have been an honest and affectionate servant in my life, so after
37 Pro | round about, and perpetual agitation, ending where it began.
38 Pre | they called Pedarii) have agreed to support some one person'
39 Plan | especially — viz., in the end aimed at, in the order of demonstration,
40 Ded | sciences may no longer float in air, but rest on the solid foundation
41 Plan | myself. Nor need any one be alarmed at such suspension of judgment
42 Plan | strange negligence have been allowed for many ages to prevail
43 Plan | of mortality and humanity allows) the intellect may be raised
44 Ded | facts of nature. May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty!~
45 | alone
46 Plan | which the letters of the alphabet have to speech and words —
47 Plan | the total you necessarily alter the parts and sections;
48 Pre | does on every side so many ambiguities of way, such deceitful resemblances
49 Pre | to the fall. It was the ambitious and proud desire of moral
50 Pre | of this kind, therefore, amend some things, but advance
51 Plan | of induction which shall analyze experience and take it to
52 Pre | been made, and no doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything
53 Pro | to try the whole thing anew upon a better plan, and
54 Pre | be no excess, neither did angel or man ever come in danger
55 Pre | from lust of power that the angels fell, from lust of knowledge
56 Plan | and sea, minerals, plants, animals — but much more of nature
57 Pre | premature human reasoning which anticipates inquiry, and is abstracted
58 Plan | my method, exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects;
59 Plan | Intellect The Forerunners; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy The
60 Pre | confutation, or pleadings of antiquity, or assumption of authority,
61 Plan | same consideration makes me anxious, having the management of
62 | anyone
63 | anywhere
64 Plan(1)| challenge and, on the advice of Aphrodite, dropped three golden apples
65 Plan | grant to us to write an apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps
66 Pre | people like, who has in appearance reduced them to an art,
67 Pro | occupied in admiring and applauding the false powers of the
68 Plan | reject as an Atalanta's apple that hinders the race.1
69 Plan(1)| Aphrodite, dropped three golden apples on the way. Atalanta could
70 Plan | logicians themselves do not apply it) but also as regards
71 Plan | again when the sense does apprehend a thing its apprehension
72 Plan | does apprehend a thing its apprehension is not much to be relied
73 Plan | that a safe and convenient approach may be made to nature, and
74 Plan | and the new more easily approached. And I hold the improvement
75 Pre | But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its
76 Plan | own opinion certain and approved), I nevertheless subjoin
77 Pro | subsequent notions less arbitrary and inconstant; whence it
78 Pro | in this — that the one, arduous and difficult in the beginning,
79 Pre(1) | Reference is to Aristotle. Cf. the editor's Introduction.]
80 Plan | several provinces of science armed with a higher authority
81 Plan | careful selection a regular army of divine works, it may
82 Plan | connected with it and may arouse themselves to devise proofs
83 Pre | powers and more commodious arrangements and constructions, in so
84 Pre | seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of human
85 Pre | and set forth with sundry artifices. And if there be any who
86 Plan | mean, as are skillfully and artificially devised for the express
87 Ded | have to offer, it may be ascribed to the infinite mercy and
88 Pre | We have no reason to be ashamed of the discoveries which
89 Pre | and I cannot be fairly asked to abide by the decision
90 Plan | knowledge. Those, however, who aspire not to guess and divine,
91 Pre | say, as either entangle assent or tickle it. And therefore
92 Pre | the credit of modesty by assenting to the rest. But these mediocrities
93 Pre | work created light only and assigned to it one entire day, on
94 Plan | sense itself, even when assisted by exquisite instruments —
95 Plan | universe, the divine goodness assisting, out of which marriage let
96 Pre | pleadings of antiquity, or assumption of authority, or even by
97 Pre | be done; and to be well assured that I am laboring to lay
98 Plan | keep the mind from going astray or stumbling, but it is
99 Pre | whatever any art fails to attain, they ever set it down upon
100 Pre | itself as impossible of attainment; and how can art be found
101 Pre | private persons secretly attempted and stirred; so neither
102 Pre | deal with nature; and in attempting what it cannot master, has
103 Pre | or too little awake and attentive, or if I have fallen off
104 Pre | stay, without receiving any augmentations worthy of the human race,
105 Plan | regions in my mind, like an augur taking auspices, but to
106 Plan | mind, like an augur taking auspices, but to enter them like
107 Pre | utility it must be plainly avowed that that wisdom which we
108 Pre | credulous or too little awake and attentive, or if I have
109 Pro | And although he was well aware how solitary an enterprise
110 Plan | regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the
111 Plan | corn. For I well know that axioms once rightly discovered
112 Plan | understanding with very bad materials for philosophy
113 Pro | inquisition of nature is badly put together and built up,
114 Plan | the soul of words and the basis of the whole structure)
115 Plan | kindling and bringing it to bear. And they would be sufficient
116 | becomes
117 | becoming
118 Pro | agitation, ending where it began. And although he was well
119 Pre | industry in experimenting has begun with proposing to itself
120 Pre | myself I say nothing; but in behalf of the business which is
121 Pre | in hand I entreat men to believe that it is not an opinion
122 Pre | the senses and immediately beneath common notions; but before
123 Plan | rumor; practice, slavishly bent upon its work; experiment,
124 Plan | strangely possessed and beset so that there is no true
125 | beside
126 Plan | escape the sense, even when best disposed and no way obstructed,
127 Plan | labor must we be prepared to bestow upon this other, which is
128 Plan | that the nature of things betrays itself more readily under
129 Plan | I do not at all mean to bind myself. Nor need any one
130 Pre | there have been any who, not binding themselves either to other
131 Pre | stirred; so neither the births nor the miscarriages of
132 Pre | they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition
133 Plan | upon its work; experiment, blind, stupid, vague, and prematurely
134 Plan | forthcoming. For I do not make so blindly for the end of my journey
135 Pre | anywhere, they were presently blown out by the winds of vulgar
136 Plan | syllogism and these famous and boasted modes of demonstration their
137 Pre | has risen up some man of bold disposition, and famous
138 Pre | been who have gone more boldly to work and, taking it all
139 Ded | unincumbered with literature and book-learning), such as philosophy may
140 Plan | For first, the logicians borrow the principles of each science
141 Pre | the work of advancing the boundaries of the sciences, yet have
142 Ded | Majesty!~Your Majesty's~Most bounden and devoted Servant,~FRANCIS
143 Pre | for reputation's sake, to bow to the judgment of the time
144 Plan | mind, but out of the very bowels of nature.~Nor is this all.
145 Pre | the Greeks is but like the boyhood of knowledge, and has the
146 Pre | characteristic property of boys: it can talk, but it cannot
147 Plan | established) I proscribe and brand by name, that the sciences
148 Pre | as having in them some breath of life, are continually
149 Plan | fruits of creation, and didst breathe into the face of man the
150 Pre | inventors and those who bring to further perfection the
151 Plan | nature and kindling and bringing it to bear. And they would
152 Plan | nature, and comes to the very brink of operation, if it does
153 Ded | THE GRACE OF GOD~OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND KING,
154 Plan | works with the sweat of our brows, thou wilt make us partakers
155 Plan | serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon. For a good
156 Pre | their own course: men of capacity and intellect above the
157 Plan | virtues as may be considered cardinal in nature. I mean those
158 Pre | them. For let a man look carefully into all that variety of
159 Plan | sometimes false; observation, careless, irregular, and led by chance;
160 Pre | probable reasons and are carried round in a whirl of arguments,
161 Pre | enlargement slow and languid, carrying a show of perfection in
162 Plan | any man think that in such cases merely some light and vague
163 Plan | admonitions and scruples and cautions, with a religious care to
164 Plan | conceive I have been a more cautious purveyor than those who
165 Pre | arrogantly in the little cells of human wit, but with reverence
166 Plan | proposition of mathematical certainty), yet it leaves an opening
167 Pre(1) | Reference is to Aristotle. Cf. the editor's Introduction.]
168 Plan | can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any
169 Plan(1)| or Melanion) accepted the challenge and, on the advice of Aphrodite,
170 Plan(1)| Atalanta of Greek legend, who challenged her suitors to a race. She
171 Plan | decoration of the bridal chamber of the mind and the universe,
172 Ded | Servant,~FRANCIS VERULAM,~Chancellor.~
173 Pre | of knowledge, and has the characteristic property of boys: it can
174 Plan | which by the legitimate, chaste, and severe course of inquiry
175 Pre | opinion of store is one of the chief causes of want, and satisfaction
176 Ded | to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit,
177 Plan | having the management of the childhood, as it were, of philosophy
178 Plan | some particular subjects; choosing such subjects as are at
179 Pre | that frankly and without circumlocution stripped off, and men be
180 Pre | errors and wanderers. In circumstances so difficult neither the
181 Plan | change of errors, and not a clearance); and to lay it down once
182 Plan | which upholds the sense, and closes with nature, and comes to
183 Pre | sometimes shining out, sometimes clouded over, through the woods
184 Pre | and against the fogs and clouds of nature, and the phantoms
185 Pre | steps must be guided by a clue, and the whole way from
186 Pre | they are commonly rude, clumsy, and shapeless; afterwards
187 Plan | here and there one, but in clusters. And that unseasonable and
188 Pre | stars, they could indeed coast along the shores of the
189 Plan | of the work.~Having thus coasted past the ancient arts, the
190 Plan | We will therefore make a coasting voyage along the shores
191 Plan | dense and rare, hot and cold, solid and fluid, heavy
192 Ded | in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a natural
193 Plan | protect this work, which coming from thy goodness returneth
194 Plan | broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
195 Pro | upon a better plan, and to commence a total reconstruction of
196 Pro | should be made, whether that commerce between the mind of man
197 Pre | acquire new powers and more commodious arrangements and constructions,
198 Pre | originally invented they are commonly rude, clumsy, and shapeless;
199 Plan | of the body once was, the companion of innocence and simplicity),
200 Pro | seemed poor in his eyes compared with the work which he had
201 Pre | themselves again, they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature,
202 Pro | much as he has been able to complete. The cause of which haste
203 Pre | ventured to cast themselves completely loose from received opinions
204 Plan | spring up out of the ill complexion of the mind itself, and
205 Ded | the books which you have composed — would further follow his
206 Plan | for dealing with truth is comprised in three refutations: the
207 Pre | it is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but it is the glory
208 Plan | mind a clear and detailed conception. For I do not propose merely
209 Ded | Majesty, and which especially concerns the work in hand, namely,
210 Plan | down a simple title or a concise argument of that which is
211 Plan | enumeration, is a puerile thing, concludes at hazard, is always liable
212 Plan | rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion. And if that ordinary mode
213 Plan | lastly, they receive as conclusive the immediate informations
214 Pre | things themselves and the concordances of things, that they may
215 Plan | within reach, I utterly condemn and reject as an Atalanta'
216 Pre | no means forgetful of the conditions of mortality and humanity (
217 Plan | examine them and as they conduce to the end in view. Nay (
218 Plan | syllogism as acting too confusedly and letting nature slip
219 Pre | of which has thrown into confusion all the affairs of the human
220 Pre | endeavor either by triumphs of confutation, or pleadings of antiquity,
221 Plan | whether there be any error connected with it and may arouse themselves
222 Plan | of such virtues as may be considered cardinal in nature. I mean
223 Pre | of their own, prudently considering with themselves that by
224 Pre | needs assert (if I am to be consistent with myself), they are entitled
225 Plan | which is this: the syllogism consists of propositions — propositions
226 Pre | contrary, dwelling purely and constantly among the facts of nature,
227 Plan | desires of matter which constitute the primary elements of
228 Plan | much more of nature under constraint and vexed; that is to say,
229 Pre | commodious arrangements and constructions, in so far that men shall
230 Pre | that opinion, to join in consultation for the common good; and
231 Plan | intellectual light as the crown and consummation thereof, guard and protect
232 Pro | certainly the two ways of contemplation are much like those two
233 Pre | multitude; and thus if any contemplations of a higher order took light
234 Pre | pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others,
235 Pre | fruit and works, then arise contentions and barking disputations,
236 Pre | are those which are either contentious and pugnacious, or specious
237 Pre | along the shores of the old continent or cross a few small and
238 Plan | speculations may, in virtue of my continual conversancy with nature,
239 Pre | some breath of life, are continually growing and becoming more
240 Pre | easy also for others to continue and carry on my labors.
241 Pre | itself and the time it has continued a consideration of much
242 Pre | vast; things solid are most contracted and lie in little room.
243 Plan | liable to be upset by a contradictory instance, takes into account
244 Pre | dispute, what they can add and contribute to the common stock. And
245 Plan | and poor — all these have contributed to supply the understanding
246 Pre | generate, for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works. So
247 Plan | necessary to premise, partly for convenience of explanation, partly for
248 Plan | conceive that a safe and convenient approach may be made to
249 Plan | in virtue of my continual conversancy with nature, have a value
250 Pro | with his thoughts.~Being convinced that the human intellect
251 Ded | very kind: and yet they are copied from a very ancient model,
252 Plan | moss or to reap the green corn. For I well know that axioms
253 Plan | case either by work or by counsel. For if it were for the
254 Plan | vulgar as men may think it) count more upon this part both
255 Pro | out at last into the open country, while the other, seeming
256 Pro | struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit. And
257 Plan | liberal arts, of the many crafts which have not yet grown
258 Pre | in its first day's work created light only and assigned
259 Plan | light as the first fruits of creation, and didst breathe into
260 Plan | of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.~
261 Pre | anything I have been either too credulous or too little awake and
262 Pre | of the old continent or cross a few small and Mediterranean
263 Plan | light and vague notion has crossed my mind, and that the things
264 Plan | intellectual light as the crown and consummation thereof,
265 Plan | vanity. All received or current falsehoods also (which by
266 Pre | deferring to opinions and customs, turn to the great detriment
267 Pre | angel or man ever come in danger by it.~The requests I have
268 Pre | ambiguities of way, such deceitful resemblances of objects
269 Plan | certain it is that the senses deceive; but then at the same time
270 Plan | it leaves an opening for deception, which is this: the syllogism
271 Pre | are entitled to judge and decide upon these doctrines of
272 Pre | fairly asked to abide by the decision of a tribunal which is itself
273 Pre | the divine philosopher declares that "it is the glory of
274 Plan | is as the strewing and decoration of the bridal chamber of
275 Ded | EPISTLE DEDICATORY~TO OUR MOST GRACIOUS AND
276 Plan | foundations of the sciences deeper and firmer; and I begin
277 Plan(1)| marry only the man who could defeat her. Hippomenes (or Melanion)
278 Ded | FRANCE, AND IRELAND KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, ETC.~Most
279 Pre | ways so much praised, in deferring to opinions and customs,
280 Plan | occasion to report anything as deficient, the nature of which is
281 Plan | not empty notions but well defined, and such as nature would
282 Pre | first author, and afterwards degenerate. For when men have once
283 Plan | inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the
284 Plan | establishes provisionally certain degrees of assurance for use and
285 Plan | propose is not so much to delight with variety of matter or
286 Pre | opinions by pulling down and demolishing former ones; and yet all
287 Plan | elements of nature; such as dense and rare, hot and cold,
288 Plan | am sometimes obliged to depart from the ordinary divisions.
289 Pre | that these things do not depend upon myself, at the outset
290 Plan | operation fails.~And all depends on keeping the eye steadily
291 Plan | extracted not merely out of the depths of the mind, but out of
292 Plan | upon, and from these to derive the rest by middle terms —
293 Pre | that wisdom which we have derived principally from the Greeks
294 Ded | shall in its proper place describe: that so at length, after
295 Plan | history, then, as I have described, I conceive that a safe
296 Plan | exhibits a summary or general description of the knowledge which the
297 Plan | probable reasons, but of designations and directions for works.
298 Pre | but loving liberty, have desired to engage others along with
299 Plan | those original passions or desires of matter which constitute
300 Plan | as fast as old errors are destroyed new ones will spring up
301 Plan | application of the second part in detail and at large — the fourth
302 Plan | my own mind a clear and detailed conception. For I do not
303 Pre | if there be any who have determined to make trial for themselves
304 Plan | for the express purpose of determining the point in question. To
305 Pro | it or himself, nor to be deterred from trying and entering
306 Pre | customs, turn to the great detriment of the sciences. For it
307 Plan | and provided is at length developed and established. The completion,
308 Pre | own cause? So it is but a device for exempting ignorance
309 Plan | skillfully and artificially devised for the express purpose
310 Pre | who have usurped a kind of dictatorship in the sciences and taken
311 Plan | kind of logic, though the difference between it and the ordinary
312 Pre | that knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the
313 Plan | subservient and ministrant) discloses and sets forth that philosophy
314 Plan | guess and divine, but to discover and know, who propose not
315 Pre | instead of being resolved by discussion is only fixed and fed; and
316 Pre | altogether too weak for the disease, nor is it without evil
317 Pro | helps which are at man's disposal soberly and judiciously —
318 Pre | risen up some man of bold disposition, and famous for methods
319 Pre | contentions and barking disputations, which are the end of the
320 Pre | they have, what they can dispute, what they can add and contribute
321 Plan | own, but to examine and dissect the nature of this very
322 Plan | minuteness of the parts, or distance of place, or slowness or
323 Plan | that as an uneven mirror distorts the rays of objects according
324 Plan | the sight of man's mind is distracted by experience and history,
325 Plan | and plan of the work. I distribute it into six parts.~The first
326 Pre | the unkind and ill-starred divorce and separation of which
327 Plan | matter so difficult and doubtful there are still some things
328 Plan | occur accidentally. For I drag into light many things which
329 Plan | that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for
330 Plan(1)| the advice of Aphrodite, dropped three golden apples on the
331 Plan | take it to pieces, and by a due process of exclusion and
332 Pre | stripped off, and men be duly warned not to exaggerate
333 Pre | oracles. I, on the contrary, dwelling purely and constantly among
334 Pre | inquiry. There is none who has dwelt upon experience and the
335 Pre | premature and unseasonable eagerness; it has sought, I say, experiments
336 Plan | hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which
337 Plan(1)| and thus lost the race. — Ed.]~
338 Plan | in many ways, the whole edifice tumbles. I therefore reject
339 Pre(1) | is to Aristotle. Cf. the editor's Introduction.]
340 Plan | with a religious care to eject, repress, and, as it were,
341 Pre | both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion, and against
342 Pre | all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things
343 Pre | to the servile office of embellishing certain individual authors
344 Plan | the third part of the work embraces the "phenomena of the universe";
345 Pre | lawful marriage between the empirical and the rational faculty,
346 Pre | interests, and laying aside all emulations and prejudices in favor
347 Pre | neither desire nor hope to encourage them to penetrate further.
348 | ending
349 Pre | he will find everywhere endless repetitions of the same
350 Pre | consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they
351 Pre | seek either to force or ensnare men's judgments, but I lead
352 Pre | such, I say, as either entangle assent or tickle it. And
353 Pre | lines and so knotted and entangled. And then the way is still
354 Pre | obscurity of things, the entanglement of causes, the weakness
355 Pre | miscarriages of Time are entered in our records. Nor, secondly,
356 Pro | deterred from trying and entering upon that one path which
357 Pro | well aware how solitary an enterprise it is, and how hard a thing
358 Pre | consistent with myself), they are entitled to judge and decide upon
359 Pre | regarded be in the very entrance and threshold of the work,
360 Pre | business which is in hand I entreat men to believe that it is
361 Plan | which proceeds by simple enumeration, is a puerile thing, concludes
362 Ded | EPISTLE DEDICATORY~TO OUR MOST GRACIOUS
363 Plan | arts, the next point is to equip the intellect for passing
364 Plan | kinds of idols are hard to eradicate, so idols of this last kind
365 Plan | this last kind cannot be eradicated at all. All that can be
366 Pre | the other, the causes of erring are the same in both. And
367 Plan | are very many things which escape the sense, even when best
368 Pre | master, has done more to establish and perpetuate error than
369 Plan | course and way; and yet establishes provisionally certain degrees
370 | ETC
371 Pre | least, in obedience to the everlasting love of truth, I have committed
372 Pro | had conceived, and some evidence likewise of his honest mind
373 Plan | made it, that men, knowing exactly how each point was made
374 Pre | men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make too much of them.
375 Plan | examination, so that nothing is exaggerated for wonder's sake, but what
376 Plan | intellect may be raised and exalted, and made capable of overcoming
377 Ded | kind, and the same well examined and weighed. I have provided
378 Pre | have indeed most truly and excellently perceived that the human
379 Plan | and by a due process of exclusion and rejection lead to an
380 Plan | portion of the work itself executed by myself as a sample of
381 Plan | either directions for the execution of such work, or else a
382 Pre | So it is but a device for exempting ignorance from ignominy.
383 Plan | according to my method, exhibited by anticipation in some
384 Plan | six parts.~The first part exhibits a summary or general description
385 Pro | in courses which have no exit. And certainly the two ways
386 Plan | repress, and, as it were, exorcise every kind of phantasm.~
387 Pre | namely, that all industry in experimenting has begun with proposing
388 Plan | simplicity), let me first explain the order and plan of the
389 Plan | of inquiry which I have explained and provided is at length
390 Plan | artificially devised for the express purpose of determining the
391 Plan | This doctrine, then, of the expurgation of the intellect to qualify
392 Plan | upon this other, which is extracted not merely out of the depths
393 Pre | follows that either from an extravagant estimate of the value of
394 Pre | represented to the life in the old fable of Scylla, who had the head
395 Plan | not to devise mimic and fabulous worlds of their own, but
396 Pre | empirical and the rational faculty, the unkind and ill-starred
397 Plan | sense itself, sometimes failing, sometimes false; observation,
398 Plan | substitutes to supply its failures, rectifications to correct
399 Pre | above the vulgar having been fain, for reputation's sake,
400 Plan | all sides diligently and faithfully to provide helps for the
401 Pre | which he relies is most fallacious and weak. For, first, we
402 Pre | attentive, or if I have fallen off by the way and left
403 Plan | All received or current falsehoods also (which by strange negligence
404 Pre | others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these
405 Plan | or preoccupied) to become familiar with nature, I not unfrequently
406 Plan | swiftness of motion, or familiarity of the object, or other
407 Pre | thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity, and yet not
408 Plan | marked and reproved (else as fast as old errors are destroyed
409 Pre | These are as the pillars of fate set in the path of knowledge,
410 Plan | not sufficiently definite, faulty — in short, in many ways,
411 Pre | propound them; and therefore fenced round and set forth with
412 Pre | the work I most humbly and fervently pray to God the Father,
413 Plan | the work is devoted.~The fifth part is for temporary use
414 Plan | objects according to its own figure and section, so the mind,
415 Pre | whole, but in the parts ill filled up; in selection popular,
416 Plan | the provisions I make for finding the genuine light of nature
417 Pre | resting-place, but still finds something to seek beyond.
418 Plan | the sciences deeper and firmer; and I begin the inquiry
419 Plan | divisions of the sciences are fitted only to the received sum
420 Pre | positions which are specious and flattering; but as soon as they come
421 Pre | nature, and the phantoms flitting about on every side, in
422 Ded | the sciences may no longer float in air, but rest on the
423 Pre | advanced. Nay, they sometimes flourish most in the hands of the
424 Pro | from them that all the rest flow) are false, confused, and
425 Plan | hot and cold, solid and fluid, heavy and light, and several
426 Plan | the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense and
427 Pre | heaven. My next, that in flying from this evil they fall
428 Pre | scruples, and against the fogs and clouds of nature, and
429 Plan | fables and superstitions and follies which nurses instill into
430 Pre | proceeded to that on the days following. As for those who have given
431 Plan | philosophy with its first food. For though it be true that
432 Plan | apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted
433 Plan | simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out
434 Pre | any part interdicted or forbidden. For it was not that pure
435 Plan | Ladder of the Intellect The Forerunners; or Anticipations of the
436 Pre | also that it is by no means forgetful of the conditions of mortality
437 Plan | will, and of which I have formed in my own mind a clear and
438 Plan | report them truly, but in forming its notions mixes up its
439 Pre | however various are the forms of civil polities, there
440 Plan | notice and hasten on to the formulae of disputation. I, on the
441 Plan | time until the principal be forthcoming. For I do not make so blindly
442 Plan | hope, not unimportant: the fortune of the human race will give
443 Plan | but the real business and fortunes of the human race, and all
444 Pre | impediments of the way, to come forward themselves and take part
445 Pre | seek their knowledge at the fountain; but they think they have
446 Plan | detail and at large — the fourth part of the work is devoted.~
447 Pre | the human understanding is framed like a labyrinth, presenting
448 Ded | OF GOD~OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND KING, DEFENDER
449 Pre | threshold of the work, and that frankly and without circumlocution
450 Pre | common good; and being now freed and guarded by the securities
451 Plan | art than in its natural freedom.~Nor do I confine the history
452 Plan | submitted to a new trial and a fresh judgment has been thereupon
453 Pre | cannot generate, for it is fruitful of controversies but barren
454 Plan | visible light as the first fruits of creation, and didst breathe
455 Plan | to account until they are fully established. Then with regard
456 Pre | whereby little has indeed been gained, for though the error be
457 Pre | for his playfellow at that game. Lastly, I would address
458 Plan | Therefore do thou, O Father, who gavest the visible light as the
459 Pre | can talk, but it cannot generate, for it is fruitful of controversies
460 Plan | subtlety: I seek out and get together a kind of experiments
461 Pre | the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, that remembering the sorrows
462 Pre | of arts have but cast a glance or two upon facts and examples
463 Plan | inclinations, and, as it were, glances of history toward philosophy,
464 Plan | intellectual as in the terrestrial globe waste regions as well as
465 Plan | nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling, but
466 Plan(1)| Aphrodite, dropped three golden apples on the way. Atalanta
467 Pre | there have been who have gone more boldly to work and,
468 Plan | faithful helps and guards, and got together with most careful
469 Pre | and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was
470 Ded | PRINCE AND LORD~JAMES,~BY THE GRACE OF GOD~OF GREAT BRITAIN,
471 Plan | the world; rather may he graciously grant to us to write an
472 Plan | rather may he graciously grant to us to write an apocalypse
473 Ded | so many things — in the gravity of your judgments, in the
474 Pre | knowledge is not prosperous nor greatly advancing, and that a way
475 Plan(1)| Reference is here to Atalanta of Greek legend, who challenged her
476 Pre | derived principally from the Greeks is but like the boyhood
477 Plan | the moss or to reap the green corn. For I well know that
478 Plan | crafts which have not yet grown into arts properly so called,
479 Plan | and consummation thereof, guard and protect this work, which
480 Pre | and being now freed and guarded by the securities and helps
481 Plan | however, who aspire not to guess and divine, but to discover
482 Pre | present and future generations guidance more faithful and secure.
483 Pre | these. Our steps must be guided by a clue, and the whole
484 Pre | who offer themselves for guides are (as was said) themselves
485 Pre | and how can art be found guilty when it is judge in its
486 Pre | several perhaps cultivated and handled diligently, there has risen
487 Pre | seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust
488 Plan | sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time and do not attempt to mow
489 Pro | complete. The cause of which haste was not ambition for himself,
490 Plan | with a slight notice and hasten on to the formulae of disputation.
491 Plan | puerile thing, concludes at hazard, is always liable to be
492 Pre | and shuts up the face of heaven. My next, that in flying
493 Plan | way) — such as that of the heavenly bodies, meteors, earth and
494 Plan | and cold, solid and fluid, heavy and light, and several others.~
495 Plan | source than men have done heretofore, submitting to examination
496 | herself
497 Pre | my own private and inward hesitations and scruples, and against
498 Pre | reach the remoter and more hidden parts of nature, it is necessary
499 Pre | sport of children playing at hide-and-seek, and vouchsafed of his kindness
500 Pre | subtlety of nature, the hiding places of truth, the obscurity