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dental analogy between them. Leibnitz speaks of 

 the primitive forces impressed by the divine word 

 on created things, &quot; ex qua&quot; series phenomenorum ad 

 primi jussus prgescriptum consequeretur,&quot;- and Ba 

 con of the &quot; lex summa essentise et naturse, vis scili 

 cet primis particulis a Deo indita, ex cujus multipli- 

 catione oinnis rerum varietas emergat et confletur.&quot; 



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It does not seem improbable that Leibnitz, who in the 

 letter to Thomasius classes Bacon, so far as relates to 

 the present subject, with Gassendi and Descartes, came 



afterwards to find in Bacon s language hints of the 

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deeper view which he had himself been led to adopt, 

 and which constitutes the point of separation between 

 his system and the Cartesian. This supposition would 

 at least be in accordance with the emphatic manner 

 in which he has contrasted the physical theories of 

 Descartes and Bacon, taking the former as a type of 

 acuteness and the latter of profundity, and asserting 

 that compared with Bacon, Descartes seems to creep 

 along the ground. 1 



It may not be out of place here to remark that there 

 are other traces of Bacon s influence on Leibnitz. In 

 Erdmann s edition of his philosophical works, we find 

 several fragmentary papers which Leibnitz wrote under 

 the name of Gulielmus Pacidius. The title of one of 

 these is &quot; Gulielmi Pacidii Plus Ultra, sive initia et 

 specimina scientiae generalis de instauratione et aug- 

 mentis scientiarum ac de perficlenda mente rerumque 

 inventione ad publicam fcelicitatem.&quot; Plus Ultra was 

 the motto to Bacon s device of a ship sailino- through 



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the Pillars of Hercules, and the remainder of the title 

 is both in tone and language clearly Baconian. The 



1 Leibnitiana, vol. vi. p. 303., ed. Genev. 1768. T. S. 



