[ROCK H. 293 
Homer was in fact a Bible, and guarded with all the care and all the 
piety that belong to such a book. Prof. Blackie, Art. on Homer, © 
Encyc. Brit. eighth ed. This is true generally, and not only of ‘the 
later schools of the Grecians.’ ‘But what really conveys a more 
vivid impression of the influence of Homer in Greek education, than 
any anecdotes about schools and schoolmasters, is the very apt and 
easy way in which all Greek men are everywhere found quoting Homer 
from memory, and applying it for the need of the moment, by a sort 
of habitual “accommodation,” just as we see many a devout father of 
the Christian Church, and the ancient Jews, constantly quoting the 
Old Testament, without any curious inquiry as to the exact critical 
propriety of the text so applied.’ Blackie, Homer and the Iliad, i. 
308. [24] this third part of learning: It should be ‘this second.’ 
[27-32] But... harangués: Omitted in De Augm. 
P. 105. [3] The third book of the De Augm. begins here. [29] philo- 
sophia prima: See p. 40, 1. 8. 
P. 106. [1] a certain rhapsody: Lat. farraginem quandam et massam 
inconditam. [27] The instances of these ‘ participles in nature’ given by 
Bacon in the De Augm. are, moss, which is intermediate between putre- 
faction and a plant; fish that adhere and do not change their place and 
are between a plant and an animal; mice and other animals which are 
between those propagated by putrefaction and those propagated by 
impregnation; bats, which are between birds and quadrupeds; flying - 
fish, between birds and fish; seals, between fish and quadrupeds, and so 
on. See Nov. Org. ii, 30. 
P. 107. [8] Euclid, Elem. Book i. Axiom 4. [9, 10] an axiom.. 
mathematics: In some copies of ed. 1605, and in the edd. of 1629 and 
1633, this clause is inserted by mistake after the following sentence. 
The error is noted in the Errata at the end of a copy of ed. 1605 in the 
Bodleian Library, and the true reading is given, preceded by the follow- 
ing remark: ‘In some few Bookes, in Ff: fol. 21, and the beginning of 
the second page thereof, there is somewhat misplaced, and to be read 
thus.’ The catchword of the previous page is‘ And.’ [10] This ana- 
logy between commutative (or corrective) and distributive justice is 
derived from Aristotle (Eth. v. 3, 4). Of distributive justice Sir Alex- 
ander Grant in his notes on the passage gives the following summary: 
‘Justice implies equality, and not only that two things are equal, but 
also two persons between whom there may be justice. Thus it is a 
geometrical proportion in four terms; if A and B be persons, C and D 
lots to be divided, then as A is to B, so must C be to D. And a just 
distribution will produce the result that A+C will be to B+D in the 
same ratio as A was to B originally. In other words, distributive 
justice consists in the distribution of property, honours, &c., in the state, 
according to the merits of each citizen.’ And of corrective, or as Bacon 
