306 NOTES, 
1633. Isai is the form of the word in the Bishops’ Bible. [32] The 
lictores and viatores were both attendants upon a Roman magistrate, the 
business of the former being to clear the way and of the latter to sum- 
mon persons before him. So that lictores corresponds to ‘ whifflers,’ 
and viatores to ‘ sergeants.’ 
P. 153. [5] Referring to Matt. xviii. 3. Compare Of the Interpreta- 
tion of Nature (iii. p. 224); ‘It is no less true in this kingdom of know- 
ledge than in God’s kingdom of heaven, that no man shall enter into it 
except he become first as a little child.’ [10] in subject of nature: Lat. in 
rebus naturalibus que participant ex materia. [17] In this sentence Bacon 
appears to have had in his mind what he afterwards said of the investig- 
ation of fpal causes: nam causarum finalium inquisitio sterilis est, et tan- 
quam virgo Deo consecrata nihil parit (De Augm. iii. 5). In speaking of 
these (p. 119, 1. 5) he calls them ‘satisfactory and specious causes; ’ 
while in the present passage he characterizes them as_producing =a 
but_barren of result. [20] the current tokens or marks of popular 
notions of things: See again pp. 166, 167, and Arist. Interp. i. 1. 2. 
[21] notions: Lat. notiones ipse (que verborum anime sunt), For the 
construction, see p. 143, 1. 16. [32] Cic, Acad. Queest. ii, 5. § 15: 
Socrates autem, de se ipso detrahens in disputatione, plus tribuebat iis 
quos volebat refellere. Ita cum aliud diceret atque sentiret, libenter uti 
solitus est ea dissimulatione quam Greci eipoveay vocant. See also Brutus, 
c. 85. 
P. 154. [1] Tiberius: Tac. Ann. i. 7. 11. [4] acatalepsia : incompre- 
hensibility, the doctrine of the impossiLility of attaining absolute truth. 
Cic. Acad. Quest. ii, 6.18. See Noy. Org. i. 37. [9] in both acade- 
mies: The Lat. adds, multo magis inter Scepticos. [10] in subtilty and 
integrity : Lat. simpliciter et integre, as if the reading had been, as it pro- 
bably should be, ‘in simplicity and integrity.’ [14] by help of instru- 
ment: Lat. ope instrumentorum. Perhaps we should read ‘ instruments.’ 
With this whole passage compare what Bacon says in his treatise Of the 
Interp. of Nat. (Works, iii. 244): ‘That the information of the senses is 
, fsufficient, not because they err not, but because the use of the sense in 
-- _4/ discovering knowledge is for the most part not immediate. So that it is 
the work, effect, or instance, that trieth the Axiom, and the sense doth 
but try the work done or not done, being or not being.’ [29] experientia 
literata: In the De Augmentis this is explained at some length as treat- 
ing of the methods of making experiments. [30] interpretatio nature ; 
The Lat. adds, sive Novum Organum. Of these two divisions Bacon 
says, in the De Augmentis, the former proceeds from one experiment to 
another; the latter from experiments to axioms, which in their turn 
lead to new experiments, 
P. 155. [1] De Augm. v. 3. [23] Aristotle, Soph. El. ii. 9. [30] 
Matt, xiii, 52, 
