XIV PREFACE. 



ter these beginnings, and the wheel once set on 

 going, men shall seek more truth out of Christian 

 pens, than hitherto they have done out of heathen. 

 I say with hope ; because I hear my former book of 

 the Advancement of Learning, is well tasted in the 

 universities here, (&) and the English colleges 

 abroad : and this is the same argument sunk deeper. 

 And so I ever humbly rest in prayers, and all 

 other duties, 



Your majesty s most bounden and 

 devoted servant, 



FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



York-House, this 12th 

 of October, 1620. 



This Letter was written with the King s own hand, 

 to my Lord Chancellor Verulam, upon his Lord 

 ship s sending to his Majesty his Novum Orga- 

 num. 



My Lord, 



I have received your letter and your book, than 

 the which you could not have sent a more accept 

 able present unto me. How thankful I am for it 

 cannot better be expressed by me than by a firm re 

 solution I have taken ; first, to read it through 

 with care and attention, though I should steal some 

 hours from my sleep. Having otherwise as little 

 spare-time to read it as you had to write it. And 

 then to use the liberty of a true friend, in not spar- 



(k) In the year 1620 the Advancement of Learning was 

 known in our universities. Qy. Is it known in the year 1828 ? 



