BOOK II. 



the Novum Organum, App. A., has shown that Bacon uses axiom 

 to denote any general principle of the lowest degree of generality. 

 And in this he is followed by Sir Isaac Newton, who gives the title 

 of Axiom to all general experimental truths, to the laws of motion, 

 which are purely inductive and not at all self-evident truths, to the 

 principles of optics, c. 



P. 88. [4] In the treatise D?emonologie, in forme of a Dialogue, 

 in three books, printed among the works of James I., p. 93, ed. 1616. 

 [5] Comp. Nov. Org. i. 1 20, sol enim ague palatia et cloacas ingreditur, 

 neqne tamen polluitur. And Chaucer s Parson s Tale, quoted by Mr. 

 Kitchin: Certes holy writ may not be defouled, no more than the 

 sonne that schyneth on a dongehul (vol. iii. p. 168, Percy Soc. ed.). 

 [7-9] I hold fit, that these narrations . . . be sorted by themselves, 

 and not to be mingled &c. : For other instances of this mixed con 

 struction, see Ps. Ixxviii. 4, 8 (Pr. Bk.) : That we should not hide . . . 

 but to shew &c. That they might put their trust in God, and not 

 to forget &c. [23] Plato, Hippias Major, iii. 291. 



P. 89. [3] the philosopher : Thales. See Plato, Therct. i. 1 74 ; Diog. 

 Laert. i. 34. [9] Arist. Polit. i. 3. i ; Phys. i. 



P. 90. [i] Proteus: Virg. Georg. iv. 386, &c. [5] De Augm. ii. 6. 

 [22] of the world: i.e. in the world. [27] as was said: See above, 

 1. 13. In this paragraph Bacon perhaps had in his mind Camden s 

 Remaines concerning Britaine (1605). 



P. 91. [2] In the discourse on the Union of the Kingdoms (Life and 

 Letters, iii. p. 94) Bacon gives instances in nature of those bodies 

 which were imperfecte mista, and concludes, So as such imperfect 

 minglings continue no longer than they are forced, and still in the 

 end the worthiest gets above. He probably had this in his mind 

 when he called such histories the salvage of the deluge of time. [5] 

 epitomes: Bacon elsewhere (p. 175) condemns Ramus for introducing 

 the canker of epitomes. Here he refers probably to the Epitomes of 

 Florus, Aurelius Victor, and others. [10] De Augm. ii. 7. [26] the 

 true and inward resorts : Lat. veros fomites et texturas subtiliores. Perhaps 

 we should read fontes. [27] The Latin adds neque enim de elogiis et 

 hujusmodi commemorationibus jejtmis loquimur. [32] Referring to 

 Thucydides, Xenophon, and Sallust. 



P. 92. [4, 5] specially of any length : This refers to the length of the 

 period contemplated by the history, not to the history itself. The 

 Latin has a different idea, frcesertim qua cctate scriptoris multo antiquior 

 sit; where the true reading would be quod . . . antiquius. [5] p. 9^. 

 [4] Omitted in the Latin. [22] Virg. A\u. iv. 177. [29] Justinianus: 

 Born A.D. 483; reigned from 52710565. [Ib.] Ultimus Romanonnn: 

 Used of Cassius by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 34) and of Brutus and Caseins 

 by Suetonius (Tib. 61). [33] to be kept: are is omitted in the 



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