CXll LIFE OF BACON. 



These subjects considered of importance by Bacon; by 

 the ancients, and by all physiologsts, (b) do not form any 

 part of our University education. The formation of bodily 

 habits, upon which our happiness and utility must be 

 founded, are left to chance, to the customs of our parents, 

 or the practices of our first college associates. All nature 

 strives for life and for health. The smallest moss cannot be 

 moved without disturbing myriads of living beings. If any 

 part of the animal frame is injured, the whole system is 

 active in restoring it : but man is daily cut off or withered 

 in his prime; and, at the age of fifty, we stand amidst the 

 tombs of our early friends. 



At some future time the admonition of Bacon, that 

 &quot; although the world, to a Christian travelling to the land 

 of promise, be as it were a wilderness, yet that our shoes 

 and vestments be less worn away while we sojourn in this 

 wilderness, is to be esteemed a gift coming from divine 

 goodness,&quot; may, perhaps, be considered deserving attention. 



Bacon arranges knowledge respecting the mind into 

 i. The understanding.- 



- {5: 



1. Invention. 



2. Judgment. 



3. Memory. 

 .4. Tradition. 



The image of good. 



-ii. The will, i ^ rpi r ,i 



The culture of the mind. 



In the English universities there is not, except by a few 

 lectures, some meagre explanations of logic, and some 

 indirect instruction by mathematics upon mental fixedness, 

 any information imparted upon the nature or conduct of 



(6) See note Q Q Q at the end. 



