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LIFE OF BACON. 



INSTANCES, those instances by which the nature sought 

 is most easily discovered. They may be thus exhibited : 



Contracting the inquiries J 

 within narrow limits. 



Exclusion of 

 irrelevants. 



Nature conspi 

 cuous. 



2. Reality and Appearances. 



3. Resemblances and Differences. 



1. Solitary. 



Travelling. 

 Journeying. 

 Nature in motion. 

 Constituent. 



*1. Patent and Latent. 



2. Maxima. Minima. 



3. Frontier. 



4. Singular. 



5. Divorce. 

 -6. Deviating. 



1. EXCLUSION OF IRRELEVANTS. 



Solitary. Solitary Instances. If the inquiry be into the nature of 

 colour : a rainbow and a piece of glass in a stable window, 

 differ in every thing except in the prismatic colours; 

 they are therefore solitary in resemblance. The different 

 parts of the same piece of marble, the different parts of a 

 leaf of a variegated tulip, agree in every thing, save the 

 colour ; they are, therefore, solitary in difference. 



By thus contracting the limits of the inquiry, may it 

 not possibly be inferred, that colour depends upon refrac 

 tion of the rays of light ? 



Motion. Nature in motion. Observe nature in her processes. If 

 any man desired to consider and examine the contrivances 

 and industry of a certain artificer, he would not be content 

 to view only the rude materials of the workman, and then 



measure supplied by a close attention to the present doctrine of Instances. 

 But, in order to render the whole more generally intelligible and useful, it 

 were greatly to be wished that some tolerably qualified person would -give 

 an essay upon it, in as familiar a manner as the subject will allow. See 

 Dr. Hook s Method of improving Natural Philosophy. Shaw. 



