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kindness, employed him in her service: and some effort 

 was made to create a new vacancy, by the advancement of 

 Fleming, (a) 



During the contest, the University of Cambridge had 

 conferred upon him the degree of master of arts, (6) and he 

 had in the first throes of vexation declared his intention of 

 retiring there, a resolution, which, unfortunately for phi 

 losophy, he did not put into practice. (JF) 



In the year 1596 Bacon completed a valuable tract 1596. 

 upon the elements and use of the common law. (c) It ^t. 36. 

 consists in the first part of twenty-five legal maxims, (d) as 

 specimens selected from three hundred, (e) in which he 

 was desirous to establish in the science of law, as he was 

 anxious to establish in all science, general truths for the 

 diminution of individual labour, and the foundation of 

 future discoveries : and, his opinion being, that general 

 truths could be discovered only by an extensive collection 

 of particulars, he proceeded in this work upon the plan 

 suggested in his Novum Organum. (f) 



In the second part he explains the use of the law for 

 the security of persons, reputation, and property ; which, 

 with the greatest anxiety to advance freedom of thought 

 and liberty of action, he well knew and always inculcated, 

 was to be obtained only by the strength of the law re 

 straining and directing individual strength. (2) In Or- 

 pheus s Theatre, he says, all beasts and birds assembled, 

 and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some 

 of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together, 

 listening to the airs and accords of the harp; the sound 



(a) See note 3 A at the end. (e) See note 3 E at the end. 



(6) See note 3 B at the end. (/) See note 3 F at the end. 



(c) See note 3 C at the end. (x) See note X X at the end. 



(d) See note 3 D at the end. 



(?) In societati civili, aut lex aut vis valet. Justitia Universalis. 



