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to discover the properties of creatures and to impose 

 names, the occupation of Adam in Paradise, his 

 tables of invention are constructed in the Novum 

 Organum with the admonition &quot; That all partitions 

 &quot; of knowledges be accepted rather for lines and 

 &quot; veins, than for sections and separations ; and that 

 &quot; the continuance and entireness of knowledge be 

 &quot; preserved.&quot;* The sciences being the Pyramids 



* There is scarcely a page of his works which does not con 

 tain an illustration of this union in all the parts of nature, and 

 the injury to the advancement of knowledge from a supposition 

 of their separation. In the Advancement of Learning he says, 

 &quot; We see Cicero the orator complained of Socrates and his 

 &quot; school, that he was the first that separated philosophy and 

 &quot; rhetoric; whereupon rhetoric became an empty and verbal 

 &quot; art. So we may see that the opinion of Copernicus touching 

 &quot; the rotation of the earth, which astronomy itself cannot 

 &quot; correct, because it is not repugnant to any of the phenomena, 

 t( yet natural philosophy may correct. So we see also that the 

 &quot; science of medicine, if it be destituted and forsaken by natu~ 

 &quot; ral philosophy, it is not much better than an empirical prac- 

 &quot; tice.&quot; 



In the treatise De Augmentis, speaking of the mode in 

 which the laws of the heavenly bodies would be discovered, and 

 (if the anecdote respecting Newton and the falling apple is true) 

 were discovered, he thus predicts &quot; whoever shall reject the 

 &quot; feigned divorces of superlunary and sublunary bodies ; and 

 * shall intentively observe the appetencies of matter, and the 

 &quot; most universal passions, (which in either globe are exceeding 

 &quot; potent, and transverberate the universal nature of things) he 

 &quot; shall receive clear information concerning celestial - matters 

 &quot; from the things seen here with us : and contrariwise from 

 &quot; those motions which are practised in heaven; he shall learn 

 &quot; many observations which now are latent, touching the mo- 



