NOTES. 



p. 39 . [6] Liv. ix. 17 ; quoted again in Nov. Org. i. 97, and Of the 

 True Greatness of Britain (Works, vii. 50). Comp. Of the Interpretation 

 of Nature, p. 224, for the original of this passage. [10, n] which till 

 they be demonstrate, they seem &c.: Observe the looseness of 

 construction and the unnecessary repetition of the pronoun. Comp. 11. 

 3 2 &amp;gt; 33- L 1 ^] h a th st ^ prevailed : Lat. semper obtinuisse. [23-26] Comp. 

 Nov. Org. i. 71 ; Of the Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 227). In 

 Essay liii. p. 2 1 3 Bacon uses the same figure in speaking of Fame : 



Certainly, Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swolne, 

 and drownes things waighty and solide. [32, 33] So knowledge, while 

 it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : Another instance of 

 the same construction as has been noticed before, p. 20, 11. 26, 27; p. 

 39, 11. 10, ii. See p. 48, 11. 20-24 ; p. 129, 1. 32. 



P. 40. [2] illustrate: ed. 1633 has illustrated. [8] philosophic* prima: 

 See p. 105, 1. 29 ; p. 113, 1. 20. [22] HeracKtus: In Sextus Empiricus, 

 Adv. Logicos, i. 133- [5-&amp;gt;9] for the y deluded: The original 

 form of this passage is to be found in the treatise Of the Interpretation of 

 Nature, p. 224. 



P. 41. [3] See Nov. Org. i. 63, 96. [8] Gilbertus : William Gilbert of 

 Colchester (1540-1603), Fellow of St. John s Coll. Cambridge, and 

 physician to Elizabeth and James I, wrote De Magnete, magneticisque 

 corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova &c. 1600. 



His work, says Dr. Whewell (Hist, of Ind. Sc. book xii. ch. i), 

 contains all the fundamental facts of the science, so fully examined 

 indeed, that even at this day we have little to add to them. Comp. with 

 the whole of this passage Nov. Org. i. 54, 64. [12] Cicero, Tusc. Disp. 

 i. 10. 20, Hie ab artificio suo non recessit, speaking of Aristoxenus. [14] 

 Aristot. De Gener. et Corrup. i. 2, quoted again in the treatise^ Of the 

 Interpretation of Nature, p. 231. [18] The same comparison is made 

 use of in the last-mentioned treatise, p. 250. [19] the two ways of 

 action commonly spoken of by the ancients : Bacon probably refers to 

 Xenophon (Memorabilia, ii. i. 20), who quotes Hesiod, Works and Days, 

 287-292, and introduces Prodicus s fable of the choice of Hercules. 



P. 42. [i] Cicero, De Nat. Deor. i. 8. 18. Comp. Nov. Org. i. 67. 

 [2] Socrates: See p. 153, 1. 31. [8] devote: So ed. 1605. Ed. 1633 

 has devoute. [17] Comp. S. Bernard, Serm. 36 in Cant. [28] terrace: 

 ed. 1605 tarrasse. 



P. 43- [5 6 1 Comp. Macrob. in Somn. Scip. i. 12. [7-14] Comp. Of 

 the Interpretation of Nature, p. 222 : And knowledge that tendeth to 

 profit or profession or glory is but as the golden ball thrown before Ata- 

 lanta, which while she goetli aside and stoopeth to take up she hindereth 

 the race. [14] Ovid, Metam. x. 667. [16] Cicero, Tusc. Disp. v. 4. 10. 

 [23-26] Comp. Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 222. [29] have: 

 hath in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. [32] Prov. xxvii. 6. 



