LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA. 203 



speeches, perhaps, you will think fit to publish. The letters 

 many of them touch too much upon late matters of state to 

 be published ; yet I was willing they should not be lost. I 

 have also by my will, erected two lectures in perpetuity, in 

 either university : One with an endowment of 2001. per 

 annum a piece. They are to be for natural philosophy, and 

 the sciences thereupon depending ; which foundations I have 

 required my executors to order by the advice and direction 

 of your lordship, and my Lord Bishop of Coventry and 

 Litchfield. These be my thoughts now. I rest 

 Your Lordship s most 



affectionate to do you service. 



A Letter written in Latin by tbe Lord Verulam, to 

 Father Fulgentio, the Venetian, concerning his 

 writings ; and now translated into English by the 

 Publisher. 



Most reverend Father, 



I must confess myself to be a letter in your debt ; but 

 the excuse which I have, is too, too just. For I was kept 

 from doing you right by a very sore disease, from which I 

 am not yet perfectly delivered. 



I am now desirous to communicate to your fatherhood 

 the designs I have touching those writings which I form in 

 my head and begin ; not with hope of bringing them to per 

 fection, but out of desire to make experiment, and because 

 I am a servant to posterity ; for these things require some 

 ages for the ripening of them. 



I judged it most convenient to have them translated in 

 the Latin tongue, and to divide them into certain tomes. 



The first tome consisteth of the books of the Advance 

 ment of Learning, which, as you understand, are already 

 finished and published ; and contain the Partition of Sei- 

 ences, which is the first part of my Instauration. 



The Novum Organum should have immediately followed. 



