PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS OF LORD BACON. 425 
authority more, that of a celebrated. Dutch writer of the same 
day, himself an eminent improver of science in several of its 
branches ; and who was placed in a situation, which, in a parti- 
cular manner, enabled him to collect the general sentiment of 
Europe, upon any point connected with the history of philoso- 
phy. Ihere allude to Borrwaave ; who, in his Discourse de com- 
parando certo in Physicis, delivered before the University of Ley- 
den, when he Jaid down the office of Rector in 1715, pronounced 
an eulogium upon the merits and services of Bacon, which I 
am happy to extract as a conclusion, ornament, and sanction, 
to the foregoing observations.— Atque hujus quidem Physi- 
“ ces fortunas laudare licet ex quo magnum VERULAMIUM sum- 
“ mo suo bono accepit! Virum certé ad omnia, que scientid 
“ humana comprehendi possunt, indaganda facilé principem, 
“© et de quo dubites utrum consilio, an exemplo, major fuerit 
“ in instauranda deformaté Physica. Absque invidid dixero, 
“ quidquid incrementi cepit naturalis historia ab ineunte de- 
** cimo sexto seculo in hane usque horam, omne id acceptum 
“‘ debemus monitis et preceptis illius viri; cujus indelibilem 
“ memoriam grata colet orbis perpetuitas. Gratari quoque 
“ oportet zvo nostro, quo exire servitio sectarum licuit, sicque 
“ ardere puram, castamque, veritatem, ut, posthabitd figmen- 
“ torum atque commentorum auctoritate, Naturam solam suas 
“ dotes revelantem audiamus,” . 
Vor. VIII. P. IL 3H XX. 
