of Experimental Philofophy. 355 



period of life, faw the futility of Ariftotle's 

 fyllogiftic fyftem, which, proceeding on the 

 fuperticial enumeration of a few particulars, rifes 

 at once to the eftablifnment of univerfal propo- 

 fitions. Dua via funt, atque ejfe fojfunty ad in- 

 quirendam et inveniendam veritatem. Altera a Jen/a 

 €t particularibus advolat ad aximnata maxime gene^ 

 ralia^ atque ex iis p-rincipiisy eorumque immota vert- 

 tate judicat et invenit axiomata media ; atque hac 

 via in uju eft. Altera a Jenju et particularibus eX' 

 citat axiomata, ojcendendo contincnter et gradatim, 

 ut ultimo loco perveniatur ad maxime generalia j 

 qua via vera eft, fed intent at a. * 



It is obvious ^hat the force of this indudive 

 method of reafoning mud depend on the ad- 

 vancement, which has been made, in the differ- 

 ent branches of phyfics. Indeed, it prefuppofes 

 a ftore of particular fads, gradually accumulated, 

 but fufficicntly ample, and fit for reduftion into 

 their proper claffes. Time and obfervation will 

 be continually diminifhing the number, and 

 confequently enlarging tiie boundaries of thefe 

 claffes, by difcovering other relations between 

 them, and pointing out the connexion of phae- 

 nomena, deemed, at firft, diftindl and inde- 

 pendent. But it mufl be remembered that 

 every acceffion to knowledge renews the doubts 

 and difficulties, that refult from ignorance, be- 



* Bacon. Nov. Organ. Lib. I, Aphor. 19. 



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