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501 Plan | an Atalanta's apple that hinders the race.1 Such then is
502 Plan(1)| man who could defeat her. Hippomenes (or Melanion) accepted the
503 Pre | God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, that remembering
504 Pro | themselves, was a thing not to be hoped for, because the primary
505 Plan | my strength and beyond my hopes. I have made a beginning
506 Plan | such as dense and rare, hot and cold, solid and fluid,
507 Pre | the true and legitimate humiliation of the human spirit. For
508 Pre | the matter. And the same humility which I use in inventing
509 Pre | virgin, but her womb was hung round with barking monsters,
510 Plan | unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest
511 Pre | exempting ignorance from ignominy. Now for those things which
512 Plan | listened to; for "He that is ignorant (says the proverb) receives
513 Pre | faculty, the unkind and ill-starred divorce and separation of
514 Plan | precepts and rules by way of illustration (for of these I have given
515 Plan | give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world;
516 Pre | be of good hope, nor to imagine that this Instauration of
517 Plan | cannot easily be conceived or imagined. For the matter in hand
518 Pro | mind readily and passively imbibes, stores up, and accumulates (
519 Pre | experiments of light, not imitating the divine procedure, which
520 Pre | lay near to the senses and immediately beneath common notions;
521 Plan | logic is great, indeed, immense. For the ordinary logic
522 Pre | which they are weary and impatient. And if any one take this
523 Pre | offer from the errors and impediments of the way, to come forward
524 Pre | injustice to me may perhaps imperil the business itself) — that
525 Plan | sciences received, not without importing into them some useful things
526 Plan | which held the absolute impossibility of knowing anything were
527 Pre | authority of that art itself as impossible of attainment; and how can
528 Plan | footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.~Therefore
529 Plan | the whole structure) be improperly and overhastily abstracted
530 Pre | but advance little, and improve the condition of knowledge,
531 Plan | approached. And I hold the improvement of that which we have to
532 Pre | these doctrines of mine; inasmuch as all that premature human
533 Pro | likewise of his honest mind and inclination toward the benefit of the
534 Plan | being as the first offers inclinations, and, as it were, glances
535 Plan | the way. And therefore I include in this part such things
536 Plan | INSTAURATION~The Instauration includes six Parts:~ The Divisions
537 Pre | way and left the inquiry incomplete, nevertheless I so present
538 Pro | notions less arbitrary and inconstant; whence it follows that
539 Pre | certain individual authors and increasing their retinue. And let it
540 Pre | may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard
541 Plan | But I design not only to indicate and mark out the ways, but
542 Pre | of embellishing certain individual authors and increasing their
543 Pre | persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest. For after the
544 Pre | satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for
545 Plan | and rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion. And if that
546 Pre | of knowledge be further infected by them; and it will be
547 Plan | conclusive the immediate informations of the sense, when well
548 Pre | venom which the serpent infused into it, and which makes
549 Plan | demonstration. But the innate are inherent in the very nature of the
550 Plan | into children do serious injury to their minds; and the
551 Pre | favor more to ask (else injustice to me may perhaps imperil
552 Plan | once was, the companion of innocence and simplicity), let me
553 Pre | nature took pleasure in the innocent and kindly sport of children
554 Plan | the meantime for wayside inns, in which the mind may rest
555 Pro | that ignorance mischiefs innumerable — he thought all trial should
556 Plan | point them out, so that this insidious action of the mind may be
557 Plan | upset by a contradictory instance, takes into account only
558 Plan | and follies which nurses instill into children do serious
559 Plan | shall mark as omitted, I intend not merely to set down a
560 Pre | of nature is in any part interdicted or forbidden. For it was
561 Pre | that things human may not interfere with things divine, and
562 Plan | be found; and finally, I interpose everywhere admonitions and
563 Plan | demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind
564 Pre | human mind and intellect be introduced.~For my own part at least,
565 Pre(1) | Aristotle. Cf. the editor's Introduction.]
566 Pre | humility which I use in inventing I employ likewise in teaching.
567 Pre | masters and scholars, not of inventors and those who bring to further
568 Plan | demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding
569 Pre | the veil of obscurity, to invest these inventions of mine
570 Pre | rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in
571 Pre | exercise of thought, to invoke their own spirits to give
572 Plan | without that help all appears involved and more subtle than it
573 Pre | against my own private and inward hesitations and scruples,
574 Ded | GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH,
575 Ded | AND MIGHTY PRINCE AND LORD~JAMES,~BY THE GRACE OF GOD~OF
576 Pre | this or that opinion, to join in consultation for the
577 Plan | those examples which are joined to the several precepts
578 Pro | reasoned thus with himself and judged it to be for the interest
579 Pro | would occur to anyone else, judging especially from this, that
580 Pro | man's disposal soberly and judiciously — whence follows manifold
581 Plan | modes of demonstration their jurisdiction over popular arts and such
582 Plan | own account, but having just the same relation to things
583 Plan | interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray
584 Plan | men that they will not be kept forever tossing on the waves
585 Pre | pleasure in the innocent and kindly sport of children playing
586 Pre | hide-and-seek, and vouchsafed of his kindness and goodness to admit the
587 Plan | things.~And as the first two kinds of idols are hard to eradicate,
588 Pre | doctrines and transfer the kingdom of opinions to themselves;
589 Ded | wisest and most learned of kings belongs of right the regeneration
590 Pro | places.~Moreover, because he knew not how long it might be
591 Pre | irregular in their lines and so knotted and entangled. And then
592 Pre | be well assured that I am laboring to lay the foundation, not
593 Plan | by the logicians was so laborious, and found exercise for
594 Pre | vary his experiments as laboriously as he will, he never comes
595 Pre | understanding is framed like a labyrinth, presenting as it does on
596 Plan | Foundation of Philosophy The Ladder of the Intellect The Forerunners;
597 Pre | of enlargement slow and languid, carrying a show of perfection
598 Ded | so at length, after the lapse of so many ages, philosophy
599 Ded | may perhaps accuse me of larceny, having stolen from your
600 Ded | peacefulness of your reign, in the largeness of your heart, in the noble
601 Plan | argument. But this comes too late, the case being already
602 Pre | upon them to lay down the law with such confidence, yet
603 Pre | established forever a true and lawful marriage between the empirical
604 Pre | revolt from God and give laws to himself, which was the
605 Ded | times of the wisest and most learned of kings belongs of right
606 Pre | works. So that the state of learning as it now is appears to
607 Plan | mathematical certainty), yet it leaves an opening for deception,
608 Plan | careless, irregular, and led by chance; tradition, vain,
609 Plan(1)| here to Atalanta of Greek legend, who challenged her suitors
610 Plan | things and works which the letters of the alphabet have to
611 Plan | acting too confusedly and letting nature slip out of its hands.
612 Pre | will not rise above the level from which it fell. Men
613 Plan | concludes at hazard, is always liable to be upset by a contradictory
614 Plan | the operative part of the liberal arts, of the many crafts
615 Plan | greater increase or progress lies in a reconstruction of the
616 Pre | yet this is what posterity likes, because it makes the work
617 Pre | confine the sense within the limits of duty in respect of things
618 Plan | spring helps to man, and a line and race of inventions that
619 Pre | natures so irregular in their lines and so knotted and entangled.
620 Plan | will make me the better listened to; for "He that is ignorant (
621 Ded | severe (unincumbered with literature and book-learning), such
622 Ded | and the sciences may no longer float in air, but rest on
623 Pre | cast themselves completely loose from received opinions or
624 Plan | causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature
625 Ded | GRACIOUS AND MIGHTY PRINCE AND LORD~JAMES,~BY THE GRACE OF GOD~
626 Plan(1)| picking them up and thus lost the race. — Ed.]~
627 Pre | obedience to the everlasting love of truth, I have committed
628 Pre | opinions or to their own, but loving liberty, have desired to
629 Plan | plain truth), I do in fact (low and vulgar as men may think
630 Ded | accident (as we call it) and luck as well in what men think
631 Pre | by one who sought to give luster to his own name rather than
632 Plan | sought, unless men mean to go mad) and a not unskillful interpreter
633 Pro | built up, and like some magnificent structure without any foundation.
634 Pre | in those which go to the main. These are as the pillars
635 Plan | suspension of judgment in one who maintains not simply that nothing
636 Plan | propositions as well as the major. For I consider induction
637 Plan | makes me anxious, having the management of the childhood, as it
638 Pro | judiciously — whence follows manifold ignorance of things, and
639 Pre | remembering the sorrows of mankind and the pilgrimage of this
640 Pre | discovered, the use of the mariner's needle, as a more faithful
641 Plan | as lie at the heart and marrow of things.~But the greatest
642 Plan(1)| suitors to a race. She would marry only the man who could defeat
643 Pre | attempting what it cannot master, has done more to establish
644 Pre | is still a succession of masters and scholars, not of inventors
645 Plan | understanding with very bad materials for philosophy and the sciences.~
646 Plan | which is a proposition of mathematical certainty), yet it leaves
647 Plan | For I remember that in the mathematics it is easy to follow the
648 Plan | a fixed and established maxim that the intellect is not
649 Pre | experience and almost turned mechanics, yet these again have in
650 Pre | assenting to the rest. But these mediocrities and middle ways so much
651 Pre | or cross a few small and Mediterranean seas; but before the ocean
652 Plan(1)| defeat her. Hippomenes (or Melanion) accepted the challenge
653 Ded | business may perhaps go to the memory of your name and the honor
654 Plan | Then an attempt is made to mend the matter by a preposterous
655 Ded | ascribed to the infinite mercy and goodness of God, and
656 Plan | the matter in hand is no mere felicity of speculation,
657 Pro | be content with its own merit, without seeking other recompense.~
658 Plan | of the heavenly bodies, meteors, earth and sea, minerals,
659 Plan | who propose not to devise mimic and fabulous worlds of their
660 Plan | meteors, earth and sea, minerals, plants, animals — but much
661 Plan | rest is subservient and ministrant) discloses and sets forth
662 Plan | throughout, and that in the minor propositions as well as
663 Plan | of the whole body or the minuteness of the parts, or distance
664 Pre | neither the births nor the miscarriages of Time are entered in our
665 Pro | reason of that ignorance mischiefs innumerable — he thought
666 Plan | overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity. This is the
667 Plan | but in forming its notions mixes up its own nature with the
668 Plan | state is sound and without mixture of fables or vanity. All
669 Plan | conclusion. And if that ordinary mode of judgment practiced by
670 Ded | copied from a very ancient model, even the world itself and
671 Plan | I mean actual types and models, by which the entire process
672 Plan | these famous and boasted modes of demonstration their jurisdiction
673 Pre | themselves never the more modest, seeing that they will rather
674 Pre | they retain the credit of modesty by assenting to the rest.
675 Pre | hung round with barking monsters, from which she could not
676 Pre | ambitious and proud desire of moral knowledge to judge of good
677 Plan | do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green corn.
678 | mostly
679 Plan | slowness or else swiftness of motion, or familiarity of the object,
680 Plan | state, and squeezed and moulded. Therefore I set down at
681 Pre | and celebrated, but not moved or advanced. Nay, they sometimes
682 Plan | harvest-time and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the
683 Pre | judgment of the time and the multitude; and thus if any contemplations
684 Pre | with regard to the divine mysteries, but rather that the understanding
685 Pre | so present these things naked and open, that my errors
686 Pre | knowledge whereby Adam gave names to the creatures according
687 Pre | resemblances of objects and signs, natures so irregular in their lines
688 Pre | argumentation — for they lay near to the senses and immediately
689 Plan | and I begin the inquiry nearer the source than men have
690 Pre | discourse and opinion, is not nearly subtle enough to deal with
691 Plan | adding to the total you necessarily alter the parts and sections;
692 Plan | subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity.
693 Pre | the use of the mariner's needle, as a more faithful and
694 Pre | upon that which I must needs assert (if I am to be consistent
695 Plan | falsehoods also (which by strange negligence have been allowed for many
696 | none
697 Plan | pass it by with a slight notice and hasten on to the formulae
698 Pre | puzzled, and increase the number of errors and wanderers.
699 Pre | insomuch that the whole stock, numerous as it appears at first view,
700 Plan | superstitions and follies which nurses instill into children do
701 Plan | creatures.~Therefore do thou, O Father, who gavest the visible
702 Pre | my own part at least, in obedience to the everlasting love
703 Plan | commanded except by being obeyed. And so those twin objects,
704 Plan | therefore, if I am sometimes obliged to depart from the ordinary
705 Plan | nature of which is at all obscure, so that men may not perhaps
706 Plan | overcoming the difficulties and obscurities of nature. The art which
707 Plan | not unfrequently subjoin observations of my own, being as the
708 Pre | the issue they can yield. Observe also, that if sciences of
709 Plan | best disposed and no way obstructed, by reason either of the
710 Pro | sight easy and free from obstruction, leads to pathless and precipitous
711 Plan | propositions, which, though obtainable no doubt by the syllogism,
712 Plan | syllogism, are, when so obtained, barren of works, remote
713 Pre | Mediterranean seas; but before the ocean could be traversed and the
714 | often
715 Plan | mechanical arts, of the operative part of the liberal arts,
716 Plan | one being to overcome an opponent in argument, of the other
717 Plan | of the Sciences The New Organon; or Directions concerning
718 Pre | of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the
719 Pre | becoming more perfect. As originally invented they are commonly
720 Pro | there might remain some outline and project of that which
721 Pre | depend upon myself, at the outset of the work I most humbly
722 Plan | exalted, and made capable of overcoming the difficulties and obscurities
723 Pre | store or their strength, but overrate the one and underrate the
724 Pro | instead of vainly affecting to overrule her, are within its reach.
725 Plan | and like a fair sheet of paper with no writing on it. But
726 Plan | brows, thou wilt make us partakers of thy vision and thy sabbath.
727 Plan | by anticipation in some particular subjects; choosing such
728 Pre | genius full play, have made a passage for themselves and their
729 Plan | equip the intellect for passing beyond. To the second part,
730 Plan | nature. I mean those original passions or desires of matter which
731 Pro | which the mind readily and passively imbibes, stores up, and
732 Pro | from obstruction, leads to pathless and precipitous places.~
733 Plan | our own imagination for a pattern of the world; rather may
734 Plan | thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received;
735 Plan | the rest, like interest payable from time to time until
736 Ded | of your judgments, in the peacefulness of your reign, in the largeness
737 Pre | senators whom they called Pedarii) have agreed to support
738 Plan | for temporary use only, pending the completion of the rest,
739 Pre | hope to encourage them to penetrate further. And since opinion
740 Pre | methods and short ways which people like, who has in appearance
741 Plan | and search and world-wide perambulation be supplied by any genius
742 Pre | most truly and excellently perceived that the human intellect
743 Ded | order for the collecting and perfecting of a natural and experimental
744 Plan | And thus I conceive that I perform the office of a true priest
745 Pre | done more to establish and perpetuate error than to open the way
746 Pre | agreed to support some one person's opinion, from that time
747 Plan | far as may be, plainly and perspicuously (for nakedness of the mind
748 Plan | of philosophers or from perverse rules of demonstration.
749 Pre | proposed to themselves certain petty tasks, taking it for a great
750 Plan | exorcise every kind of phantasm.~Lastly, knowing how much
751 Pre | regard nature, the divine philosopher declares that "it is the
752 Plan | the doctrines and sects of philosophers or from perverse rules of
753 Plan | refutations: the refutation of the philosophies; the refutation of the demonstrations;
754 Plan(1)| Atalanta could not resist picking them up and thus lost the
755 Plan | experience and take it to pieces, and by a due process of
756 Pre | sorrows of mankind and the pilgrimage of this our life wherein
757 Pre | the main. These are as the pillars of fate set in the path
758 Pre | the trust which they have placed in others or in their own
759 Plan | in view. Nay (to say the plain truth), I do in fact (low
760 Plan | earth and sea, minerals, plants, animals — but much more
761 Pre | giving their genius full play, have made a passage for
762 Pre | the human spirit for his playfellow at that game. Lastly, I
763 Pre | kindly sport of children playing at hide-and-seek, and vouchsafed
764 Pre | triumphs of confutation, or pleadings of antiquity, or assumption
765 Plan | the sense is. For let men please themselves as they will
766 Plan | for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the
767 Plan | differs from it in three points especially — viz., in the
768 Plan | propositions, as certain fixed poles for the argument to turn
769 Plan | For it is in vain that you polish the mirror if there are
770 Pre | various are the forms of civil polities, there is but one form of
771 Pre | there is but one form of polity in the sciences; and that
772 Pre | find most favor with the populace are those which are either
773 Plan | of such work, or else a portion of the work itself executed
774 Pre | accustomed have certain general positions which are specious and flattering;
775 Pre | value of the arts which they possess they seek no further, or
776 Plan | minds of men are strangely possessed and beset so that there
777 Plan | the human race at present possesses. For I thought it good to
778 Plan | general who means to take possession. So much for the first part
779 Pre | sciences. For it is hardly possible at once to admire an author
780 Plan | ordinary mode of judgment practiced by the logicians was so
781 Pre | and middle ways so much praised, in deferring to opinions
782 Pre | And now, having said my prayers, I turn to men, to whom
783 Plan | are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration (
784 Pro | of things, which is more precious than anything on earth,
785 Plan | short way, no doubt, but precipitate and one which will never
786 Pro | obstruction, leads to pathless and precipitous places.~Moreover, because
787 Pre | PREFACE~That the state of knowledge
788 Pre | aside all emulations and prejudices in favor of this or that
789 Plan | blind, stupid, vague, and prematurely broken off; lastly, natural
790 Plan | which it seems necessary to premise, partly for convenience
791 Plan | for minds either tender or preoccupied) to become familiar with
792 Plan | professes to contrive and prepare helps and guards for the
793 Plan | to mend the matter by a preposterous subtlety and winnowing of
794 Pre | framed like a labyrinth, presenting as it does on every side
795 Pre | light anywhere, they were presently blown out by the winds of
796 Ded | nature. May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty!~Your Majesty'
797 Plan | have a value beyond the pretensions of my wit, they will serve
798 Pro | errors which have hitherto prevailed, and which will prevail
799 Plan | perform the office of a true priest of the sense (from which
800 Ded | MOST GRACIOUS AND MIGHTY PRINCE AND LORD~JAMES,~BY THE GRACE
801 Plan | from time to time until the principal be forthcoming. For I do
802 Plan | kind and gathered on a new principle. For it is in vain that
803 Pre | not imitating the divine procedure, which in its first day'
804 Plan | the logicians speak, which proceeds by simple enumeration, is
805 Pre | entire day, on which day it produced no material work, but proceeded
806 Pro | PROEM~Francis of Verulam reasoned
807 Plan | and that while others only profess to uphold and cultivate
808 Plan | For the ordinary logic professes to contrive and prepare
809 Pre | superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any
810 Pre | of arguments, and in the promiscuous liberty of search have relaxed
811 Plan | intellect, which is far more prone to error than the sense
812 Plan | which took upon them to pronounce. But then they did not provide
813 Plan | judgment has been thereupon pronounced. And lastly, the information
814 Plan | arouse themselves to devise proofs more trustworthy and exquisite,
815 Pre | and has the characteristic property of boys: it can talk, but
816 Pre | besides they have mostly proposed to themselves certain petty
817 Plan | which this science of mine proposes is the invention not of
818 Pre | experimenting has begun with proposing to itself certain definite
819 Plan | one another (which is a proposition of mathematical certainty),
820 Pre | unsatisfactory even to those who propound them; and therefore fenced
821 Pre | creatures according to their propriety, which, gave occasion to
822 Plan | and become established) I proscribe and brand by name, that
823 Pre | state of knowledge is not prosperous nor greatly advancing, and
824 Plan | consummation thereof, guard and protect this work, which coming
825 Pre | It was the ambitious and proud desire of moral knowledge
826 Plan | that is ignorant (says the proverb) receives not the words
827 Pre | it appears at first view, proves on examination to be but
828 Pre | within one generation, but provides for its being taken up by
829 Pre | every side, in the hope of providing at last for the present
830 Plan | ought to enter the several provinces of science armed with a
831 Pre | present induces neglect of provision for the future, it becomes
832 Plan | way; and yet establishes provisionally certain degrees of assurance
833 Plan | fact. Such then are the provisions I make for finding the genuine
834 Pre | something of their own, prudently considering with themselves
835 Pro | the like, he resolved to publish at once so much as he has
836 Pre | been brought to light and published, much less all that has
837 Pre | down to us things light and puffed up, while those which are
838 Pre | are either contentious and pugnacious, or specious and empty —
839 Pre | and their own opinions by pulling down and demolishing former
840 Pre | forbidden. For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural
841 Pre | on the contrary, dwelling purely and constantly among the
842 Pre | being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity, and
843 Pre | understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and
844 Plan | devised for the express purpose of determining the point
845 Plan | have been a more cautious purveyor than those who have hitherto
846 Plan | and ought to call those putative principles to account until
847 Pre | was said) themselves also puzzled, and increase the number
848 Plan | that the intellect is not qualified to judge except by means
849 Plan | expurgation of the intellect to qualify it for dealing with truth
850 Plan | matter supplied of good quality and well prepared for the
851 Pre | barren of works, full of questions; in point of enlargement
852 Pre | knowledge, but do not extend its range. Some, indeed, there have
853 Pre | the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion, and against
854 Plan | nature; such as dense and rare, hot and cold, solid and
855 Pre | abstracted from the facts rashly and sooner than is fit,
856 Pre | between the empirical and the rational faculty, the unkind and
857 Plan | of speculation, but the real business and fortunes of
858 Plan | attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green corn. For I well
859 Pro | PROEM~Francis of Verulam reasoned thus with himself and judged
860 Plan | the mind; and lastly, they receive as conclusive the immediate
861 Plan | such as nature would really recognize as her first principles,
862 Pro | merit, without seeking other recompense.~
863 Pre | Time are entered in our records. Nor, secondly, is the consent
864 Plan | to supply its failures, rectifications to correct its errors; and
865 Plan | and even surface left to reflect the genuine rays of things,
866 Plan | there are no images to be reflected; and it is as necessary
867 Plan | which the mind may rest and refresh itself on its journey to
868 Plan | truth is comprised in three refutations: the refutation of the philosophies;
869 Pre | existing stock of inventions is regarded be in the very entrance
870 Ded | kings belongs of right the regeneration and restoration of the sciences.
871 Plan | Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom
872 Ded | the peacefulness of your reign, in the largeness of your
873 Pre | sooner than is fit, is by me rejected (so far as the inquisition
874 Plan | process of exclusion and rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion.
875 Pre | promiscuous liberty of search have relaxed the severity of inquiry.
876 Plan | of assurance for use and relief until the mind shall arrive
877 Pre | the reasoning on which he relies is most fallacious and weak.
878 Plan | scruples and cautions, with a religious care to eject, repress,
879 Pre | solitudes of the ways and, relying on the divine assistance,
880 Pro | of his death there might remain some outline and project
881 Plan | subjects, and those various and remarkable, should be set, as it were,
882 Plan | before the eyes. For I remember that in the mathematics
883 Pre | there is another thing to be remembered — namely, that all industry
884 Pre | God the Holy Ghost, that remembering the sorrows of mankind and
885 Plan | obtained, barren of works, remote from practice, and altogether
886 Pre | before we can reach the remoter and more hidden parts of
887 Pre | No excellence of wit, no repetition of chance experiments, can
888 Pre | find everywhere endless repetitions of the same thing, varying
889 Pre | it now is appears to be represented to the life in the old fable
890 Plan | religious care to eject, repress, and, as it were, exorcise
891 Plan | the mind may be marked and reproved (else as fast as old errors
892 Ded | affairs so much time as was required for this work. I know not
893 Pre | ambiguities of way, such deceitful resemblances of objects and signs, natures
894 Ded | hand, namely, that you who resemble Solomon in so many things —
895 Plan(1)| way. Atalanta could not resist picking them up and thus
896 Pre | within the limits of duty in respect of things divine: for the
897 Pre | will, he never comes to a resting-place, but still finds something
898 Ded | of time there can be no restitution unless it be that what has
899 Ded | right the regeneration and restoration of the sciences. Lastly,
900 Pro | earth, might by any means be restored to its perfect and original
901 Plan | ordinary, and leads to no result.~Now what the sciences stand
902 Pre | their liberty, while they retain the credit of modesty by
903 Pre | authors and increasing their retinue. And let it not be said
904 Plan | coming from thy goodness returneth to thy glory. Thou when
905 Pre | sense is like the sun, which reveals the face of earth, but seals
906 Plan | different thing — almost the reverse.~The sixth part of my work (
907 Pre | to the end that man may revolt from God and give laws to
908 Pre | as water, which will not rise above the level from which
909 Pre | handled diligently, there has risen up some man of bold disposition,
910 Pre | So that Time is like a river which has brought down to
911 Pre | invented they are commonly rude, clumsy, and shapeless;
912 Plan | tradition, vain, and fed on rumor; practice, slavishly bent
913 Plan | partakers of thy vision and thy sabbath. Humbly we pray that this
914 Plan | described, I conceive that a safe and convenient approach
915 Pre | in former ages, when men sailed only by observation of the
916 Pre | to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and
917 Plan | executed by myself as a sample of the whole, thus giving
918 Pre | chief causes of want, and satisfaction with the present induces
919 Pre | work short and easy, and saves further inquiry, of which
920 Plan | which his hands had made, saw that all was vanity and
921 Plan | which thy hands had made, sawest that all was very good,
922 Plan | for "He that is ignorant (says the proverb) receives not
923 Pre | on examination to be but scanty. And for its value and utility
924 Pre | succession of masters and scholars, not of inventors and those
925 Pre | life in the old fable of Scylla, who had the head and face
926 Plan | bodies, meteors, earth and sea, minerals, plants, animals —
927 Pre | reveals the face of earth, but seals and shuts up the face of
928 Pre | small and Mediterranean seas; but before the ocean could
929 Pro | from the facts; nor are the secondary and subsequent notions less
930 Pre | been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred; so
931 Pre | the foundation, not of any sect or doctrine, but of human
932 Plan | according to its own figure and section, so the mind, when it receives
933 Plan | necessarily alter the parts and sections; and the received divisions
934 Plan | either from the doctrines and sects of philosophers or from
935 Pre | guidance more faithful and secure. Wherein if I have made
936 Pre | freed and guarded by the securities and helps which I offer
937 Pro | with its own merit, without seeking other recompense.~
938 Pre | another); and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly
939 | seemed
940 | seeming
941 Pre | keeping, and (like those senators whom they called Pedarii)
942 Plan | my duty besides to make a separate history of such virtues
943 Pre | ill-starred divorce and separation of which has thrown into
944 Pre | of that venom which the serpent infused into it, and which
945 Pre | themselves, but fall to the servile office of embellishing certain
946 Plan | ministrant) discloses and sets forth that philosophy which
947 Pre | course being completed) have settled in the works of a few writers;
948 Pre | search have relaxed the severity of inquiry. There is none
949 Pre | commonly rude, clumsy, and shapeless; afterwards they acquire
950 Plan | were even and like a fair sheet of paper with no writing
951 Pre | of the sense, sometimes shining out, sometimes clouded over,
952 Pre | my mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion,
953 Plan | themselves of no great use; which shows that they were not sought
954 Pre | of earth, but seals and shuts up the face of heaven. My
955 Plan | difficulties, I have sought on all sides diligently and faithfully
956 Plan | information of the sense itself I sift and examine in many ways.
957 Plan | setting the business right or sifting away the errors. The only
958 Plan | experiments much subtler and simpler than those which occur accidentally.
959 Plan | companion of innocence and simplicity), let me first explain the
960 Pre | matter to work out some single discovery — a course of
961 Plan | is this all. For I also sink the foundations of the sciences
962 Plan | almost the reverse.~The sixth part of my work (to which
963 Plan | experiments, I mean, as are skillfully and artificially devised
964 Plan | fed on rumor; practice, slavishly bent upon its work; experiment,
965 Plan | but they pass it by with a slight notice and hasten on to
966 Plan | confusedly and letting nature slip out of its hands. For although
967 Pre | of a few persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest.
968 Pre | in point of enlargement slow and languid, carrying a
969 Plan | or distance of place, or slowness or else swiftness of motion,
970 Plan | unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the
971 Pro | will be found sound and sober, more so than what has been
972 Pro | which are at man's disposal soberly and judiciously — whence
973 Pre | be wise above measure and sobriety, but cultivate truth in
974 Pro | ambition for himself, but solicitude for the work; that in case
975 Pro | although he was well aware how solitary an enterprise it is, and
976 Pre | uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes of the ways and, relying
977 Ded | namely, that you who resemble Solomon in so many things — in the
978 Pre | God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost,
979 Plan | the prayer of the bridal song) there may spring helps
980 Pre | specious and flattering; but as soon as they come to particulars,
981 Pre | Ghost, that remembering the sorrows of mankind and the pilgrimage
982 Plan | the mind (which are as the soul of words and the basis of
983 Plan | begin the inquiry nearer the source than men have done heretofore,
984 Plan | hand is no mere felicity of speculation, but the real business and
985 Plan | For besides that I hope my speculations may, in virtue of my continual
986 Plan | of the alphabet have to speech and words — which, though
987 Pre | of their own powers they spend their strength in small
988 Plan | logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism. Of
989 Pre | thought, to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles. I,
990 Pre | while he has in fact only spoiled all that the others had
991 Pre | the innocent and kindly sport of children playing at hide-and-seek,
992 Plan | of her natural state, and squeezed and moulded. Therefore I
993 Plan | received sum of them as it stands now.~With regard to those
994 Pre | only by observation of the stars, they could indeed coast
995 Plan | demonstration, and in the starting point of the inquiry.~For
996 Pre | the contrary, stand like statues, worshipped and celebrated,
997 Pre | last reached their full stature, and so (their course being
998 Pre | that they stand almost at a stay, without receiving any augmentations
999 Plan | pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through
1000 Plan | depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of