18 CONTENTS. 



to assassinate the Chancellor. Law Reporters. Ordi 

 nances in Chancery. Judges, character of. Gardens, 

 Bacon s delight in. Lincoln s Inn Fields. Gorhambury. 

 His philosophical house. Alienation Office. York 

 House. His sixtieth birth-day. Ben Jonson s poem. 



Chapter in. 



From the publication of the Novum Organum 

 to his retirement from active life .... cclx 



Resolution to publish Novum Organum. Literate 

 Experience. Division of Instauratio Magna. Division 

 of the Sciences. Novum Organum. Our powers. 

 Defects of the Senses. Division of Idols. Idols of the 

 Tribe : of the Market : of the Den : of the Theatre. 

 Destruction of Idols. Our motives for acquiring know 

 ledge. Obstacles to acquiring knowledge. Want of 

 time. Want of means. Right road. Formation of 

 opinion. Affirmative table. Negative table. Table of 

 comparisons. Table of results. Instances, solitary, 

 travelling, journeying, constituent, patent, maxima, 

 frontier, singular, divorced, deviating, crucial. Diffe 

 rences. Parliamentary proceedings. Charge of bribery. 

 Decision against donors. Presents advised by counsel. 

 Custom of receiving presents. Error of judging of 

 past by present times. Presents made by men of emi 

 nence. Presents of furniture. Presents customary. No 

 influence on judgment. Particular charges. Fears of 

 the King and Buckingham. Advice of Williams. Inter 

 view with the King. Meeting of Parliament. King s 

 speech. Letter to the Lords. Letter to the King. 

 Sentence. His silence. Letter from the Tower. Letter 

 to the King. Lambeth Library. His will. Silence of 

 friends. Tennison. Bushel. Williams, Lord Keeper. 



