422 ON THE SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF THE 
furnishes an additional-proof of that notoriety. “ Lord Bacow,” 
says the writer, “is here, more and more known, and his works 
* more and more delighted in *.” | 
There was an Italian: philosopher of that period, whose 
ardent genius, the cruel torture of the rack, and twenty- 
seven years imprisonment, had not been able to repress ; whe 
fortunately found a friend, to publish in Germany, the works 
which he penned in the prisons of Naples ; and who has had the 
honour to be placed in the same rank with Bacon, by no less a 
judge of philosophical merit than Lemyirz. This was Camra- 
weLLa. “ If,’ says Lemnirz, “ we compare Descarres and 
“ Hoxnses, with Bacon and Campanetna, the former writers 
“ seem to grovel upon the earth,—the latter to soar to the 
“ heavens, by the vastness of their conceptions, their plans, 
“ and their enterprises.”—‘ After looking,’ says Mr Srew- 
art, (from whose rich stores of varied erudition I have bor- 
rowed this quotation,) “into several of CampanrLia’s works, 
“ with some attention, I must confess, I am at a loss to con- 
“ ceive, upon what grounds this eulogy proceeds }.” But, how- 
ever just Mr Srewart’s surprise, Lzmwnrrz was not the first 
who conjoined the names of Bacon,and CamraneLia. Tostas 
Apans, the person who performed the task of editing those works 
which CampaneLta wrote in prison, tells us, in his introduc- 
tion to the Realis Philosophia of the latter, published at Frank- 
fort in 1623, that CampaneLa, like the great VeruLam, took 
experience for his guide, and drew his philosophy from the 
book of nature {. The comparison here, is as unsound, as the 
eulogy 
* See Bacon’s Life, prefixed to Rawney’s Rescuscitatio. 
+ Dissertation, p. 39. 
+ Realis Philosophie Epilogistice partes quatuor ; hoc est, de rerwn natura, ho- 
minum moribus, politica, et economica ; cum adnot. Tuos. Apamt. 
