XV111 PREFACE. 



Antiquis tamen suus constat honos ; ingenii scilicet : 

 nam fides verbo Dei et experientia tantum debetur. 

 Scientias nut em ad es.perientiam retrahere, non 

 conceditur : at, easdem ab experientia de integro 

 excitare, operosum certe, sed pervium. Deus vobis, 

 et studiis vestris faveat. 



Filius vester amantissimus, 

 FRANC. VERULAM, Canc.(o) 



Ex jEdibus Eborac. 

 SOctob. 1620. 



Lord Bacon to Sir Henry Wotton. 

 My very good Cousin, 



Your letter which I received from your lordship(j/) 

 upon your going to sea was more than a compensa 

 tion for any former omission ; and I shall be very 

 glad to entertain a correspondence with you in both 

 kinds, which you writ of; for the latter whereof 



(o) Translation by Archbishop Tenison in Baconiana: 192. 



&quot; Seeing I am your son, and your disciple, it will much please 

 me to repose in your bosom, the issue which I have lately brought 

 forth into the world ; for otherwise I should look upon it as an 

 exposed child. Let it not trouble you, that the way in which I 

 go is new; such things will of necessity happen in the revolu 

 tions of several ages. However, the honour of the ancients is 

 secured : that, I mean, which is due to their wit. For faith is only 

 due to the word of God, and to experience. Now, for bringing 

 back the sciences to experience, is not a thing to be done : but 

 to raise them anew from experience, is indeed, a very difficult 

 and laborious, but not a hopeless undertaking. God prosper you 

 and your studies. 



Your most loving Son, 



Francis Verulam, Chancel. 



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