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1633. Isai is the form of the word in the Bishops Bible. [32] The 

 lictores and viatores were both attendants upon a Roman magistrate, the 

 business of the former being to clear the way and of the latter to sum 

 mon persons before him. So that lictores corresponds to whifflers, 

 and viatores to sergeants. 



P- J 53- [5] Referring to Matt, xviii. 3. Compare Of the Interpreta 

 tion of Nature (iii. p. 224); It is no less true in this kingdom of know 

 ledge than in God s kingdom of heaven, that no man shall enter into it 

 except he become first as a little child. [10] in subject of nature : Lat. in 

 rebus naturalibus qu&amp;lt;z participant ex materia. [l 7] In this sentence Bacon 

 appears to have had in his mind what he afterwards said of the investig 

 ation of final causes : nam causarum finalium inquisitio sterilis est, et tan- 

 quam virgo Deo consecrata nihil parit (De Augm. iii. 5). In speaking of 

 these (p. 119, 1. 5) he calls them satisfactory and specious causes; 

 while in the present passage he characterizes them as producing assent 

 but barren of result. [20] the current tokens or marks of popular 

 notions of things: See again pp. 166, 167, and Arist. Interp. i. i. 2. 

 [21] notions: Lat. notiones ips& (qua verborum animce sunt}. For the 

 construction, see p. 143, 1. 16. [32] Cic. Acad. Qusest. ii. 5. 15 : 

 Socrates aulem, de se ipso detrahens in disputatione, plus tribuebat Us 

 quos volebat refellere. Ita cum aliud diceret atque sen tire f, libenter uti 

 solitus est ea dissimulatione quam Graci flpaivdav vacant. See also Brutus, 

 c.8 5 . 



P. 154. [i] Tiberius: Tac. Ann. i. 7. n. [4] acatalepsia: incompre 

 hensibility, the doctrine of the impossibility of attaining absolute truth. 

 Cic. Acad. Qusest. ii. 6. 18. See Nov. Org. i. 37. [9] in both acade 

 mies : The Lat. adds, multo magis inter Scepticos. [10] in subtilty and 

 integrity : Lat. simpliciter et integre, as if the reading had been, as it pro 

 bably should be, in simplicity and integrity. [14] by help of instru 

 ment : Lat. ope instrumentorum. Perhaps we should read instruments. 

 With this whole passage compare what Bacon says in his treatise Of the 

 Interp. of Nat. (Works, iii. 244) : That the information of the senses is 

 sufficient, not because they err not, but because the use of the sense in 

 discovering knowledge is for the most part not immediate. So that it is 

 the work, effect, or instance, that trieth the Axiom, and the sense doth 

 but try the work done or not done, being or not being. [29] experientia 

 literata : In the De Augmentis this is explained at some length as treat 

 ing of the methods of making experiments. [30] interpretatio naturce : 

 The Lat. adds, sive Novum Organum. Of these two divisions Bacon 

 says, in the De Augmentis, the former proceeds from one experiment to 

 another ; the latter from experiments to axioms, which in their turn 

 lead to new experiments. 



P. 155. [i] De Augm. v. 3. [23] Aristotle, Soph. El. ii. 9. [30] 

 Matt. xiii. 52. 



