CC1XXXVI LIFE OF BACON. 



TABLE II. 



Negative The second, or Negative Table, (a) consists of a collection 

 of all the known instances of similar bodies, which do not 

 agree in the same nature. Thus let the nature sought be 

 heat. 



Affirmative Table. 



The Sun s direct rays. 

 Blood of Terrestrial Animals. 

 Living Animals. 

 Boiling Water. 

 &c. c. 



Negative Table. 



The Moon s rays. 

 Blood of Fish. 

 Dead Animals. 

 Ice. 



&c. &c. 



By observing this table, it appears that the blood of all 

 animals is not hot. This table, therefore, prevents hasty 

 generalization. &quot; As if Samuel should have rested in those 

 sons of Jesse which were brought before him in the house, 

 and should not have sought David who was absent in the 

 field.&quot; 



By observing the table, it also appears that boiling 

 water is hot; ice is cold: living bodies are hot; dead 

 bodies are cold ; but in boiling water and in living bodies 

 there is motion of parts : in ice and dead bodies they are 

 fixed. Another use, therefore, of this table is to discover 

 the nature sought, by observing its qualities which are 

 absent in the analogous nature, &quot; like the images of Cassius 

 and Brutus, in the funeral of Junia;&quot; of which, not being 

 represented as many others were, Tacitus saith, &quot; Eo ipso 

 pr&fulgebant quod non visebantur.&quot; 



(n) Aph. 12. Nov. Org. L. 2. vol. ix. p. 301. 



