CCXC11 LIFE OF BACON. 



bodies; and this we have endeavoured after, by observing 

 the ways wherein liquors open themselves by fire; for 

 water opens one way, wine another, verjuice another, and 

 milk, oil, &c. with a still greater difference. 



Consti- Constituent Instances. In inquiring into any nature, 



separate complex into simple natures. Let the nature 

 sought be memory, or the means of exciting and helping 

 the memory ; the constituent instances may be thus exhi 

 bited : 



1 . The mind free. 



,. The art of .naking * 



strong impressions. 1 rpi $ \. Variety of impression 



j agent. ]ownss o f imressi 



. Slowness of impression 

 1. Cutting off infinity 



fl. Order. 

 2. Places for artificial 



memory. 

 3. Technical memory. 



. 2. The art of recalling 

 impressions. 



2. Reducing intellectual to sensible things. 



Such are specimens of his mode of excluding irrelevant 

 natures. 



2. OBSERVING THE NATURE WHERE MOST CONSPICUOUS, 

 OR INSTANCES OF EXTREMES. 



Patent and Latent Instances. In inquiring into any 

 nature, observe where the nature, in its usual state, appears 

 most conspicuous, and where it appears in its weakest and 

 most imperfect state. The loadstone is a glaring instance 

 of attraction. The thermometer is a glaring instance of the 

 expansive nature of heat. Flame (a) exhibits its expansive 

 nature to the sense, but it is momentary and vanishes. 



(a) As the sudden lighting of gas. 



