200 LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA-. 



The same in English by the Publisher. 



Francis, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. AI- 

 bans, to the Indulgent Mother, the famous University of 

 Cambridge, Health. 



I here repay you according to my ability the debts of a 

 son. I exhort you also to do the same thing with myself: 

 That is, to bend your whole might towards the advance 

 ment of the sciences, and to retain freedom of thought, to 

 gether with humility of mind ; and not to suffer the talent 

 which the ancients have deposited with you to lie dead in a 

 napkin. Doubtless, the favour of the divine light will be 

 present and shine amongst you, if philosophy being sub 

 mitted to religion, you lawfully and dexterously use the keys 

 of sense; and if all study of opposition being laid aside, 

 every one of you so dispute with another as if he were 

 arguing with himself. Fare ye well. 



A Letter of the Lord Bacon s, to the University of 

 Cambridge, upon his sending to their public 

 Library, his Novum Organum. 



Almae Matri Academise Cantabrigiensi. 

 Cum vester films sim et alumnus, voluptati mihi erit, par- 

 turn meumnuper editum vobis in gremium dare: aliter enim 

 velut pro exposito eum haberem. Nee vos moveat, quod 

 via nova sit. Necesse est enim talia per aetatum, et seculo- 

 rum circuitus evenire. Antiquis tamen suus constat honos ; 

 ingenii scilicet: nam fides verbo dei, et experientia? tan- 

 turn debetur. Scientias autem, ad experientiam retrahere, 

 non concedituv : at easdem ab experientia de integro exci- 

 tare, operosum certe sed pervium. Deus vobis, et studiis 

 vestris faveat. 



Filius vester Amantissimus, 

 FRANC. VERULAM, Cancel. 



