278 ; NOTES, 
P. 39. [6] Liv. ix. 17; quoted again in Noy. Org. i. 97, and Of the 
True Greatness of Britain (Works, vii. 50). Comp. Of the Interpretation 
of Nature, p. 224, for the original of this passage. [10, 11] which till 
they be demonstrate, they seem &c.: Observe the looseness of 
construction and the unnecessary repetition of the pronoun. Comp. Il. 
32, 33- [16] hath still prevailed: Lat. semper obtinuisse. [23-26] Comp. 
Nov. Org. i. 71 ; Of the Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 227). In 
Essay liii. p. 213 Bacon uses the same figure in speaking of Fame: 
‘Certainly, Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swolne, 
and drownes things waighty and solide.’ [32, 33] So knowledge, while 
it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth: Another instance of 
the same construction as has been noticed before, p. 20, ll. 26, 27; p. 
39, ll. 10, 11. See p. 48, ll. 20-24; p. 129, 1. 32. 
P. 40. [2] illustrate: ed. 1633 has illustrated. [8] philosophia prima: 
See p. 105, 1. 29; p. 113, 1.20. [22] Heraclitus: In Sextus Empiricus, 
Ady. Logicos, i. § 133. [25- 29] for they ...deluded: The original 
form of this passage is to be found in the treatise Of the Interpretation of 
Nature, p. 224. 
P. 41. [3] See Nov. Org. i. 63,96. [8] Gilbertus: William Gilbert of 
Colchester (1540-1603), Fellow of St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, and 
physician to Elizabeth and James I., wrote ‘De Magnete, magneticisque 
corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova &c, 1600,’ 
‘His work,’ says Dr. Whewell (Hist. of Ind. Sc. book xii, ch, 1), 
‘contains all the fundamental facts of the science, so fully examined 
indeed, that even at this day we have little to add to them.’ Comp. with 
the whole of this passage Nov. Org. i. 54, 64. [12] Cicero, Tusc. Disp. 
i. Lo. 20, Hic ab artificio suo non recessit, speaking of Aristoxenus, [14] 
Aristot. De Gener. et Corrup. i. 2, quoted again in the treatise Of the 
‘Interpretation of Nature, p. 231. [18] The same comparison is made 
use of in the last-mentioned treatise, p. 250. [19] the two ways of 
action commonly spoken of by the ancients: Bacon probably refers to 
Xenophon (Memorabilia, ii. 1. 20), who quotes Hesiod, Works and Days, 
287-292, and introduces Prodicus’s fable of the choice of Hercules. 
P. 42. [1] Cicero, De Nat. Deor. i. 8. 18. Comp. Nov. Org. i. 67. 
[2] Socrates: See p. 153, 1. 31, [8] devote: So ed. 1605. Ed. 1633 
has devoute. [17] Comp. S. Bernard, Serm. 36 in Cant. [28] terrace; 
ed. 1605 tarrasse. 
P. 43. [5, 6] Comp. Macrob. in Somn. Scip. i.12. [7-14] Comp. Of 
the Interpretation of Nature, p. 222: ‘And knowledge that tendeth to 
profit or profession or glory is but as the golden ball thrown before Ata- 
lanta, which while she goeth aside and stoopeth to take up she hindereth 
the race. [14] Ovid, Metam. x. 667. [16] Cicero, Tusc. Disp. v. 4.10. 
[23-26] Comp. Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 222. [29] have; 
hath in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. [32] Prov. xxvii. 6. 
