382 ON THE SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF THE 
they are “ wise and salutary with reference to physics,” must 
goa step farther, and admit that they are also wise and salu- 
tary with reference to inquiries regarding the mind. The ob- 
ject of philosophy, and the principles of philosophizing are the 
same, whether the investigation relates to the laws of matter 
or the laws of mind ; and thus the logic of the Novum Organum 
cannot be useful with reference to the one, without having the 
same character with reference to the other. It is upon this 
ground that Bacon himself represents his logic as equally ap- 
plicable to the advancement of the moral and metaphysical as 
of the physical sciences. ‘“ Atque quemadmodum vulgaris Lo- 
“ gica, que regit res per Sy/logismum, non tantum ad naturales, 
** sed ad omnes scientias pertinet; ita et nostra, que procedit 
“ per Jnductionem, omnia complectitur *.” 
In adverting to the question as to the influence of Bacon’s 
philosophical writings upon the subsequent progress of phy- 
sical science, this writer observes, that it presents a “ point 
*“ as to which it is very difficult to form an explicit opi- 
* nion. But this,’ says he, “ is sufficiently clear, that if Ba- 
* con’ is to be allowed any considerable share in the honours 
“ which modern experimentalists have acquired, he may, in 
“ many respects, be compared to the husbandman in Aisop’s 
“ fable; who, when he died, told his sons that he had left 
“ them gold buried under ground in his vineyard; and they 
“ digged all over the ground, and yet they found none; but by 
“ yeason of their stirring and digging the mould about the 
“ roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the following 
“ year.” It would, if I do not mistake the matter, be as diffi- 
cult to explain, how this simile could assist any one to form a 
correct opinion upon the point in question, as to explain how 
Bacon 
* Novum Organum, Lib. i. Aph 127. 
