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maxima initiis suis debentur, mihi satis fuerit sevisse 



posteris et Deo immortal!: cujus numen supplex precor, 



per filium suum et servatorem nostrum, ut has et hisce 



similes intellectus humani victimas, religione tanquam sale 



respersas, et glorioe suse immolatas, propitius accipere 



dignetur.&quot; In the midst of his profound reasoning in the 



Novum Novum Organum, there is a passage in which his opinion 



Organum. Q f our i ncor p orea i nature is disclosed, (x) And the third 



3rd Part part of the Instauration concludes thus : &quot; .Deus Universi 



Instauratio Conditor, Conservator, Instaurator, hoc opus, et in ascen- 



sione ad gloriam suam, et in descensione ad bonum 



humanum pro sua erga homines, benevolentia, et miseri- 



cordia, protegat et regat, per Filium suum unicum, 



nobiscum Deum.&quot; 



Minor In his minor publications the same piety may be seen. 



Sons&quot;*&quot; ^ a PP ears i* 1 tne Meditationes Sacra ; (a) in the Wisdom 

 of the Ancients; (6) in the Fables of Pan,(c) of Pro- 

 metheus,(d) of Pentheus,(e) and of Cupid :(/) in various 

 parts of the Essays, but particularly in the Essay on 

 Atheism (g) and Goodness of Nature: (h) in the New 

 Atlantis : (i) in his tract, &quot; De principiis,&quot; and the tract, 

 entitled &quot; The Conditions of Entities, (k) 



(#) &quot; Quare actio magnetica poterit esse instantia diuortii circa naturam 

 corpoream, et actionem naturalem. Cui hoc adjici potest tanquam corol- 

 larium aut lucrum non prsetermittendum : viz. quod etiam secundum 

 sensum philosophanti sumi possit probatio, quod sint entia et substantise 

 separatae et incorporeae. Si enim virtus et actio naturalis, emanans a cor- 

 pore, subsistere possit aliquo tempore, et aliquo loco, omnino sine corpore ; 

 prope est ut possit etiam emanare in origine sua a substantia incorporea. 

 Videtur enim non minus requiri natura corporea ad actionem naturalem 

 sustentandam et deprehendam, quam ad excitandum aut generandam.&quot; 



() See vol. i. p. 203, and preface to vol. i. p. xxiii. 



(6) Vol. iii. p. 1, and preface, p. 2. (c) Vol. iii. p. 11. 



(d) Vol. iii. p. 63. (e} Vol. iii. p. 29. (/) Vol. iii. p. 43. 



(g) Vol. i. p. 53. (A) Vol. i. p. 40. (0 Vol. ii. p. 336. 



(/c) Baconiana, p. 91. It concludes thus : &quot;This is the form and rule 



