NO! I, 11 i; |;. 



The Preface considereth the present unhappy state of learning, together with 



)unsels and advices to advance and improve it. To this preface, therefore, 

 are to be reduced the Indicia, and the Proem in (miter, () concerning theinter- 



etation of nature; the first book de Augmentis Scientiarum, which treateth 



jnerally of their dignity and advancement. (/&amp;lt;) 

 To the Distribution belongeth that Latin fragment in Gruter, (c) called the 



elineation and Argument of the second part of the Instauration. (d) 

 In the bringing this labour to maturity, lie used great and deliberate care ; 



isomuch that Dr. Rawley saith, he had seen twelve copies of it revised year by 

 year, one after another, and every year altered and amended in the frame 

 thereof, till at last it came to the model in which it was committed to the press. 

 It was like a mighty pyramid, long in its erection, and it will probably be like 

 to it in its continuance. Now he received fiom many parts beyond the seas 

 testimonies touching this work, such as beyond which he could not (he saith) 

 expect at the first, in so abstruse an argument ; yet, nevertheless (he saith 

 again) he had just cause to doubt that it flew too high over men s heads. He 

 purposed, therefore (though he broke the order of lime) to draw it down to the 

 sense by some patterns of natural story and inquisition. 



Montagu s Preface. 



In the year 1605 Lord Bacon, in the Advancement of Learning, divided 

 knowledge respecting the Mind of Man into the understanding and the will. 

 Knowledge respecting the understanding he divided into 



Invention, 

 Judgment, 

 Memory, 

 Tradition. 



&quot; Man s labour is to invent that which is sought or propounded ; .or to judge 

 that which is invented ; or to retain that which is judged; or to deliver over 

 that which is retained. So as the arts must be four; art of inquiry or inven 

 tion ; art of examination or judgment ; art of custody or memory ; and art of 

 elocution or tradition.&quot; 



Under the head of Invention, after having explained the deficiencc of the 

 art of Invention, &quot; which,&quot; he says, &quot; seemeth to me to be such a deficience 

 as if, in the making of an inventory touching the estate of a defunct, it should 

 be set down, of ready money nothing : for as money will fetch all other com 

 modities, so this knowledge is that which should purchase all the rest. And 

 like as the West Indies had never been discovered, if the use of the mariner s 

 needle had not been first discovered, though the one be vast regions and the 

 other a small motion ; so it cannot be found strange if sciences be no farther 

 discovered, if the art itself of invention and discovery hath been passed over.&quot; 



He then adds, &quot; This part of invention, concerning the invention of sciences, 

 I purpose, if (jod give me leave, hereafter to propound, having digested it into 

 two parts ; whereof the one I term Experientia Literata, and the other 

 Interpretatio Naturae: the former being but a degree and rudiment of the 

 latter. But I will not dwell too long, nor speak too great upon a promise.&quot; 



The Novum Organum was published, imperfect and incomplete, in the year 

 1620, when- Lord Bacon was Chancellor. The reasons for the publication at 

 that period are stated in his letter to the King: &quot; And the reason why I have 

 published it now, specially, being unperfect, is, to speak plainly, because 1 number 

 my days, and would have it saved. There is another reason of my so doing, 

 which is to tiy whether 1 can get help in one intended part of this work, 



() Script. 285, 479. 



(M Referred by Tennison to Preface of Novum Organum. 



(c) Inter Script. 293. 



(&amp;lt;/) Referred by Tennison to the second part of Novum Organum. 



