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but I interposed my moral and political writings, because 

 they were more in readiness. 



And for them they are these following. The first is, 

 The History of Henry the 7th, King of England. Then 

 follows that book which you have called in your tongue, 

 &quot; Saggi Morali.&quot; But I give a graver name to that book ; 

 and it is to go under the title of Sermones Fideles, 

 [faithful sayings], or Interiora Rerum, [the inside of things]. 

 Those Essays will be increased in their number, and en 

 larged in the handling of them. 



Also that tome will contain the book of the Wisdom of 

 the Ancients. And this tome (as I said) doth, as it were 

 interlope, and doth not stand in the order of the In- 

 stauration. 



After these shall follow the Organum Novum, to which 

 a second part is yet to be added which I have already 

 comprised and measured in the idea of it. And thus the 

 second part of my Instauration will be finished. 



As for the third part of the Instauration, that is to say 

 the Natural History, it is plainly a work for a king or a 

 pope, or for some college or order ; and cannot be by 

 personal industry performed as it ought. 



Those portions of it, which have already seen the light, 

 to wit, concerning winds, and touching life and death, 

 they are not pure history, by reason of the axioms and 

 larger observations which are interposed. But they are a 

 kind of mixed writings composed of natural history, and a 

 rude and imperfect instrument, or help, of the under 

 standing. 



And this is the fourth part of the Instauration. Where 

 fore that fourth part shall follow, and shall contain many 

 examples of that instrument, more exact, and much more 

 fitted to rules of induction. 



Fifthly, there shall follow a book to be entitled by us, 

 Prodromus Philosophise Secuudse, [the fore-runner of Se 

 condary Philosophy]. This shall contain our inventions 



