PREFACE. 



THIS Volume contains the two last books of the 

 treatise &quot; De Augmentis,&quot; and the &quot; Novum Or- 

 ganum.&quot; 



In the year 1605 Lord Bacon, in the Advance 

 ment of Learning, divided knowledge respecting 

 the Mind of Man, into the understanding and the 

 will* 



Knowledge respecting the understanding he di 

 vided into 



Invention, 

 Judgment, 

 Memory, 

 Tradition. f 



&quot; Man s labour is to invent that which is sought 

 or propounded ; or to judge that which is invented ; 

 or to retain that which is judged ; or to deliver over 

 that which is retained. So as the arts must be four ; 

 art of inquiry or invention : art of examination or 

 judgment; art of custody or memory ; and art of 

 elocution or tradition&quot;^ 



Under the head of Invention, after having ex 

 plained the deficience of the Art of Invention, 

 which,&quot; he says, &quot; seemeth to me to be such a defi 

 cience as if, in the making of an inventory touching 



* See vol. ii. p. 173. f See vol. ii. 1 6. 



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