BOOK I. 289 
the Novum Organum, App. A., has shown that Bacon uses ‘axiom’ 
to denote any general principle of the lowest degree of generality. 
And in this he is followed by Sir Isaac Newton, who gives the title 
of ‘ Axiom’ to all ‘ general experimental truths,’ to the ‘laws of motion,’ 
which are purely inductive and not at all ‘self-evident’ truths, to the 
principles of optics, &c. 
P. 88. [4] In the treatise ‘Dzemonologie, in forme of a Dialogue,’ 
in three books, printed among the works of James I., p. 93, ed: 1616. 
[5] Comp. Noy. Org. i. 120, sol enim ceque palatia et cloacas ingreditur, 
neque tamen polluitur. And Chaucer’s Parson’s Tale, quoted by Mr. 
Kitchin: ‘Certes holy writ may not be defouled, no more than the 
sonne that schyneth on a dongehul’ (vol. iii. p. 168, Percy Soc. ed.). 
{7-9] I hold fit, that these narrations... be sorted by themselves, 
and not ¢o be mingled &c.: For other instances of this mixed con- 
struction, see Ps. lxxviii. 4, 8 (Pr. Bk.): ‘That we should not hide... 
but to shew &c.” ‘That they might put their trust in God, and not 
to forget &c.’ [23] Plato, Hippias Major, iii. 291. 
P. 89. [3] the philosopher: Thales. See Plato, Theet. i.1743 Diog. 
Laert.i. 34. [9] Arist. Polit. i. 3. § 1; Phys. i. 
P. 90. [1] Proteus: Virg. Georg. iv. 386, &c. [5] De Augm. ii. 6. 
[22] of the world: i.e. in the world. [27] as was said: See above, 
1. 13. In this paragraph Bacon perhaps had in his mind Camden’s 
Remaines concerning Britaine (1605). 
P. gt. [2] In the discourse on the Union of the Kingdoms (Life and 
Letters, iii. p. 94) Bacon gives instances in nature of those bodies 
which were imperfecte mista, and concludes, ‘So as such imperfect 
minglings continue no longer than they are forced, and still in the 
end the worthiest gets*above.’ He probably had this in his mind 
when he called such histories the salvage of the deluge of time. [5] 
epitomes: Bacon elsewhere (p. 175) condemns Ramus for ‘ introducing 
the canker of epitomes’ Were he refers probably to the Epitomes of 
Florus, Aurelius Victor, and others. [10] De Augm. ii. 7. [26] the 
true and inward resorts: Lat. veros fomites et texturas subtiliores. Perhaps 
we should read fontes. [27] The Latin adds neque enim de elogiis ex 
hujusmodi ec wrationibus jejunis loquimur. [32] Referring to 
Thucydides, Xenophon, and Sallust. 
P. 92. [4, 5] specially of any length: This refers to the length of the 
period contemplated by the history, not to the history itself. The 
Latin has a different idea, presertim que etate scriptoris multo antiquior 
sit; where the true reading would be quod... antiquius. [5])—p. 93. 
[4] Omitted in the Latin. [22] Virg. Ain. iv.177. [29] Justinianus: 
Born a.p. 483; reigned from 527 to 565. [Ib.] Ultimus Romanorum: 
Used of Cassius by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 34) and of Brutus and Cassius 
by Suetonius (Tib. 61). [33] to be kept: ‘are’ is omitted in the 
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