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tern sequi necesse est liberi jam erunt, rem monstra- 

 tarn in potius perducant. Quin contra, artem veram 

 adolescere statuimus. 1 



1 So in the original. Possibly the manuscript was imperfect at the 

 end, and the sentence completed by conjecture: for this can hardly be 

 what Bacon wrote. The aphorism is repeated in many places, and al 

 ways in the form artem inveniendi cum inventis adolescere. See the end 

 of the first book of the Novum Organum. J. S. 



