312 NOTES. i ae 
P. 174. [1] judgement: The Latin has here Sequitur aliud Methodi dis- 
crimen, in tradendis scientiis cum judicio adhibendum. Method has been 
described (p. 170) as a part of judgement, and here the one word 
seems to have been substituted for the other. [5] agreeable: i.e. to 
received opinions. Lat. opinionibus jampridem imbibitis et receptis affinis. 
[7] Arist. Eth, Nic. vi. 3. The opinion alluded to in this passage is 
generally supposed to be that of Plato (Theet. p. 197) and not 
Democritus. Mr, Ellis conjectured that Bacon might inadvertently have 
substituted one name for the other. [10] need only but: One of these 
words is redundant. We should say ‘need only’ or ‘need but.’ [22] 
Mr. Ellis quotes Plato, Politic. ii. 277: xadewdv, wr wapadelypacr xpd- 
pevov, ixavds évdeixvucbai m1 Tav peCdvev. [27] The Latin adds to 
these diversities of methods Diereticam and Homericam. 
P. 175. [8] Ramus (Dialect. lib. ii. c. 3) divides the axioms or first 
principles of sciences (axiomata artium) as follows: Axioms are either 
true or false. Of true axioms, some are true contingently, others 
necessarily. A necessary axiom must be true in all cases, and the 
predication is then said to be xara mavrés. It must be homogeneous, 
that is, its parts must be essentially connected together, as form with the 
thing formed, the subject with its proper adjunct, genus with species: in 
this case it is said to be xa6’ aird, Thirdly, it must be catholic or 
universal, that is, the converse of the proposition must be true as well as 
the proposition itself, when it is “a@éAouv mp@rov. To these three rules 
Ramus givés the fanciful names of the law of truth (ard mayrés), the law 
of justice (na@’ ard), and the law of wisdom (xa0dAov mp@rov). It is the 
last law which is referred to in the concluding sentence of this paragraph. 
{tr] the canker of epitomes: In p. 91 Bacon calls epitomes ‘the 
corruptions and moths of history.” [13] Referring probably to the 
dragons which kept the garden of the Hesperides and the golden fleece. 
Compare also Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii. 1. 12-14: : 
‘Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head,’ 
[26-28] and the longitude... precept: Lat. longitudo vero sumitur a 
summa propositione ad imam in eadem scientia, [30] which is the rule they 
call xa8avrd: Omitted in the Latin. See note on p. 175, 1. 8. 
P. 176. [5] Ortelius: Abraham Ortel, or Ortelius, born June 9, 1527, 
at Antwerp, and called the Ptolemy of his time. He was appointed 
geographer to the King of Spain, and died June 26, 1598. Prefixed to 
his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is a map of the world called Typus Orbis 
Terrarum, to which Bacon probably alludes. [20] Raymundus Lullius: 
born at Palma in Majorca in 1235. He was at first steward to King 
James of Majorca and High Chamberlain ; or, as others say, a merchant 
