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1001 Pre    |           difficulties as these. Our steps must be guided by a clue,
1002 Pre    |              ones; and yet all their stir has but little advanced
1003 Pre    |       persons secretly attempted and stirred; so neither the births nor
1004 Ded    |         accuse me of larceny, having stolen from your affairs so much
1005 Pro    |       readily and passively imbibes, stores up, and accumulates (and
1006 Pre    |         examples and experience, and straightway proceeded, as if invention
1007 Plan   |            falsehoods also (which by strange negligence have been allowed
1008 Plan   |           since the minds of men are strangely possessed and beset so that
1009 Plan   |        nature of the mind, is as the strewing and decoration of the bridal
1010 Pre    |           and without circumlocution stripped off, and men be duly warned
1011 Pro    |             to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which
1012 Pre    |           men shall sooner leave the study and pursuit of them and
1013 Ded    |        provided the machine, but the stuff must be gathered from the
1014 Plan   |            mind from going astray or stumbling, but it is not any excellence
1015 Plan   |             work; experiment, blind, stupid, vague, and prematurely
1016 Plan   |              that may in some degree subdue and overcome the necessities
1017 Pre    |         vanity, and yet not the less subject and entirely submissive
1018 Pre    |            less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles, may
1019 Plan   |             established until it has submitted to a new trial and a fresh
1020 Plan   |            men have done heretofore, submitting to examination those things
1021 Pro    |            nor are the secondary and subsequent notions less arbitrary and
1022 Plan   |           work (to which the rest is subservient and ministrant) discloses
1023 Plan   |        provide helps for the sense — substitutes to supply its failures,
1024 Plan   |             kind of experiments much subtler and simpler than those which
1025 Pre    |        felicity offers any chance of success. No excellence of wit, no
1026 Pre    |           For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of
1027 Pre    |            the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out
1028 Plan   |     discovery of causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first
1029 Pre    |             them no further than may suffice to let the images and rays
1030 Plan   |              bear. And they would be sufficient of themselves if the human
1031 Plan   |    abstracted from facts, vague, not sufficiently definite, faulty — in short,
1032 Plan(1)|           legend, who challenged her suitors to a race. She would marry
1033 Plan   |            The first part exhibits a summary or general description of
1034 Pre    |            for the sense is like the sun, which reveals the face
1035 Pre    |             round and set forth with sundry artifices. And if there
1036 Pre    |           are weighty and solid have sunk. Nay, those very authors
1037 Pre    |            or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit,
1038 Plan   |         observed that the fables and superstitions and follies which nurses
1039 Pre    |              Pedarii) have agreed to support some one person's opinion,
1040 Pre    |            the first place to logic, supposing that the surest helps to
1041 Pre    |              must be laid out upon a sure plan. Not that I would be
1042 Pre    |            logic, supposing that the surest helps to the sciences were
1043 Plan   |            there is no true and even surface left to reflect the genuine
1044 Plan   |           upon.~And now that we have surrounded the intellect with faithful
1045 Plan   |             do not propose merely to survey these regions in my mind,
1046 Plan   |            own way, but I hold it as suspect and no way established until
1047 Plan   |           any one be alarmed at such suspension of judgment in one who maintains
1048 Ded    |            the thing, and such great suspicions concerning matters long
1049 Plan   |          labor in thy works with the sweat of our brows, thou wilt
1050 Pre    |             makes the mind of man to swell, we may not be wise above
1051 Plan   |           place, or slowness or else swiftness of motion, or familiarity
1052 Pre    |         inquiry, without any regular system of operations. And besides
1053 Pre    |             property of boys: it can talk, but it cannot generate,
1054 Pre    |             themselves certain petty tasks, taking it for a great matter
1055 Pre    |       inventing I employ likewise in teaching. For I do not endeavor either
1056 Plan   |       devoted.~The fifth part is for temporary use only, pending the completion
1057 Pre    |           the form and manner of the temptation. Whereas of the sciences
1058 Plan   |          especially for minds either tender or preoccupied) to become
1059 Plan   |              which agree in a middle term agree with one another (
1060 Pre    |             in fact the true end and termination of infinite error; and seeing
1061 Plan   |            derive the rest by middle terms — a short way, no doubt,
1062 Plan   |           the intellectual as in the terrestrial globe waste regions as well
1063 Plan   |              be relied upon. For the testimony and information of the sense
1064        | therein
1065        | thereof
1066        | thereupon
1067 Plan   |              them. And therefore the third part of the work embraces
1068 Pro    |             made acquainted with his thoughts.~Being convinced that the
1069 Pre    |             in the very entrance and threshold of the work, and that frankly
1070        | throughout
1071 Pro    |           the mind, they pass by and throw away those true powers,
1072 Pre    |              separation of which has thrown into confusion all the affairs
1073 Pre    |            either entangle assent or tickle it. And therefore no doubt
1074 Plan   |          merely to set down a simple title or a concise argument of
1075 Plan   |             words; and words are the tokens and signs of notions. Now
1076 Plan   |             will not be kept forever tossing on the waves of experience,
1077 Ded    |        Certainly they are quite new, totally new in their very kind:
1078 Pre    |              to change doctrines and transfer the kingdom of opinions
1079 Pre    |            before the ocean could be traversed and the new world discovered,
1080 Pre    |             varying in the method of treatment, but not new in substance,
1081 Pre    |           abide by the decision of a tribunal which is itself on trial.~
1082 Pre    |            do not endeavor either by triumphs of confutation, or pleadings
1083 Plan   |              lastly, natural history trivial and poor — all these have
1084 Plan   |          discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them,
1085 Plan   |              sciences may be no more troubled with them. For it has been
1086 Plan   |     themselves to devise proofs more trustworthy and exquisite, if such can
1087 Pro    |          course left, therefore — to try the whole thing anew upon
1088 Pro    |              nor to be deterred from trying and entering upon that one
1089 Plan   |              ways, the whole edifice tumbles. I therefore reject the
1090 Plan   |            thy glory. Thou when thou turnedst to look upon the works which
1091 Pre    |        themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation,
1092 Plan   |           being obeyed. And so those twin objects, human knowledge
1093 Plan   |             work); but I mean actual types and models, by which the
1094 Pre    |              than they arrive at the ultimate perfection of which they
1095 Plan   |             practice, and altogether unavailable for the active department
1096 Pre    |              committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes
1097 Pre    |             it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby
1098 Pre    |             but overrate the one and underrate the other. Hence it follows
1099 Pro    |            though in the project and undertaking it may seem a thing infinite
1100 Plan   |          this is certain: that as an uneven mirror distorts the rays
1101 Plan   |          familiar with nature, I not unfrequently subjoin observations of
1102 Plan   |            beginning, as I hope, not unimportant: the fortune of the human
1103 Ded    |            history, true and severe (unincumbered with literature and book-learning),
1104 Pre    |            the rational faculty, the unkind and ill-starred divorce
1105 Pre    |            in selection popular, and unsatisfactory even to those who propound
1106 Ded    |              make — a request no way unworthy of your Majesty, and which
1107 Pre    |              divine assistance, have upheld my mind both against the
1108 Plan   |         while others only profess to uphold and cultivate the sense,
1109 Plan   |          form of demonstration which upholds the sense, and closes with
1110 Plan   |               is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance,
1111 Plan   |          which, though in themselves useless, are the elements of which
1112        | using
1113 Pre    |          those very authors who have usurped a kind of dictatorship in
1114 Plan   |           which come within reach, I utterly condemn and reject as an
1115 Pro    |          wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her,
1116 Pre    |            the thing itself; let him vary his experiments as laboriously
1117 Pre    |       repetitions of the same thing, varying in the method of treatment,
1118 Pre    |            the empty things that are vast; things solid are most contracted
1119 Pre    |            authority, or even by the veil of obscurity, to invest
1120 Pre    |         being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused
1121 Pre    |          sciences, yet have they not ventured to cast themselves completely
1122 Plan   |              that all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and could find
1123 Plan   |        itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural
1124 Plan   |          nature under constraint and vexed; that is to say, when by
1125 Pre    |           had the head and face of a virgin, but her womb was hung round
1126 Plan   |              my speculations may, in virtue of my continual conversancy
1127 Plan   |             separate history of such virtues as may be considered cardinal
1128 Plan   |             O Father, who gavest the visible light as the first fruits
1129 Plan   |            three points especially — viz., in the end aimed at, in
1130 Pre    |        playing at hide-and-seek, and vouchsafed of his kindness and goodness
1131 Plan   |            therefore make a coasting voyage along the shores of the
1132 Pre    |             the number of errors and wanderers. In circumstances so difficult
1133 Pre    |        experiments pursued a kind of wandering inquiry, without any regular
1134 Pre    |           one of the chief causes of want, and satisfaction with the
1135 Plan   |            argument of that which is wanted. For as often as I have
1136 Pre    |        stripped off, and men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make
1137 Plan   |             in the terrestrial globe waste regions as well as cultivated
1138 Pre    |              him, knowledge being as water, which will not rise above
1139 Plan   |            serve in the meantime for wayside inns, in which the mind
1140 Pre    |          entanglement of causes, the weakness of the human mind; wherein
1141 Pre    |             this our life wherein we wear out days few and evil, they
1142 Pre    |           inquiry, of which they are weary and impatient. And if any
1143 Ded    |           the same well examined and weighed. I have provided the machine,
1144 Pre    |            up, while those which are weighty and solid have sunk. Nay,
1145 Pro    |              that all other ambition whatsoever seemed poor in his eyes
1146        | whenever
1147        | where
1148 Pre    |           and are carried round in a whirl of arguments, and in the
1149 Pro    |              science there is only a whirling round about, and perpetual
1150 Pro    |              and how hard a thing to win faith and credit for, nevertheless
1151 Pre    |           presently blown out by the winds of vulgar opinions. So that
1152 Plan   |            preposterous subtlety and winnowing of argument. But this comes
1153 Pre    |             plainly avowed that that wisdom which we have derived principally
1154 Pre    |              to swell, we may not be wise above measure and sobriety,
1155 Ded    |           surely to the times of the wisest and most learned of kings
1156 Plan   |           attempt are no better than wishes, when they are in fact things
1157 Pre    |           among the facts of nature, withdraw my intellect from them no
1158 Pre    |            face of a virgin, but her womb was hung round with barking
1159 Pre    |             and abstract meditation, wonderful men. But, as in former ages,
1160 Ded    |               And to say truth, I am wont for my own part to regard
1161 Pre    |            clouded over, through the woods of experience and particulars;
1162 Plan   |              safeguards to guide its working. But my history differs
1163 Plan   |            this labor and search and world-wide perambulation be supplied
1164 Plan   |            devise mimic and fabulous worlds of their own, but to examine
1165 Pre    |        contrary, stand like statues, worshipped and celebrated, but not
1166 Pre    |          receiving any augmentations worthy of the human race, insomuch
1167 Plan   |            graciously grant to us to write an apocalypse or true vision
1168 Pre    |        settled in the works of a few writers; and that there being now
1169 Plan   |          fair sheet of paper with no writing on it. But since the minds
1170 Pre    |           and all the issue they can yield. Observe also, that if sciences