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PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS OF LORD BACON. 399 
* with us in England*.” Sprar always speaks of Lord 
Bacon, as the founder of that experimental school, which 
came to be embodied in the institution whose history he 
wrote + ; and the testimony of Mr Oxpensure, its first Secre- 
tary, though a foreigner, is equally explicit. “ The enrich- 
“ ment of the storehouse of Natural Philosophy, was a work,” 
says he, “ begun by the single care and conduct of the ex- 
“cellent Lord Verutam, and is now prosecuted by the joint 
“ undertakings of the Royal Society t.” Guanvint, whose 
zeal in defending this establishment, against the attacks of its 
enemies, well entitles him to respectful notice in the history of 
philosophy, makes frequent acknowledgements to the same 
purpose. The following passage contained in the work which 
he wrote in its defence, and which was published in 1668, under 
the title of Plus ultra, or, the Advancement of Knowledge since the 
days of AxistorLe, is too remarkable to be omitted on the pre- 
sent occasion. “The philosophy that must signify either for light 
** or use, must not be the work of the mind turned in upon itself, 
“ and only conversing with its own ideas; but must be rai- 
* sed from’ the observations and ae of sense, and 
47 : “ take 
* See his Account of his own Life, in a Letter published in the Appendix to 
Hearne’s Preface to Lanetort’s. Chronicle, Number IX. ft 
+ See particularly p. 35. History of the Royal Society. 
+ Philosophical Transactions, No. 22. p. 391. Mr O.peneurc frequently 
alludes to Bacon as the chief forwarder of experimental philosophy. ‘ When 
our renowned Lord Bacon had demonstrated the methods for a perfect restora- 
tion of all parts of real knowledge, the success became on a sudden stupendous, 
and effective philosophy began to sparkle, and even to flow into beams of bright 
shining light all over the world.”—Pref. to Philosophical Transactions tor 1672. 
—** Many of the chief Unversities in Christendom have formed themselves into _ 
philosophical societies, and have largely contributed their aids to advance Lord 
Bacon’s design for the instauration of arts and sciences.”—Pref. to Philosophical 
Transactions for 1677. 
