IV PREFACE. 



panics and corporations ; the foundation of colleges 

 and lectures for learning 1 , and the education of 

 youth ; foundations and institutions of orders and 

 fraternities for nobility, enterprize, and obedience ; 

 but, above all, the establishing good laws for the 

 regulation of the kingdom, and as an example to the 

 world. 



Lord Bacon s zeal for improvement was accom 

 panied by extreme caution in the admission of 

 alteration. The inferring, he says, a general po 

 sition from a nude enumeration of particulars, with 

 out an instance contradictory, is vicious : nor doth 

 such an induction infer more than a probable conjec 

 ture that there is no repugnant principle undisco 

 vered : as if Samuel should have rested in those sons 

 of Jesse which were brought before him in the house, 

 and should not have sought David who was absent in 

 the field. Upon this principle his art of invention is 

 founded : in which his tables are tests for the detec 

 tion of latent evil under apparent good, not only in 

 natural philosophy but in morals and legislation. (//) 



(&amp;lt;f) Etiam dubitabit quispiam potius quam objiciet; utrum 

 nos de naturali tantum philosophia, an etiam cle scientiis re- 

 liquis, logicis, ethicis, politicis, secundum viam nostram per- 

 ficiendis loquamur. At nos certe de universis hsec, qucc dicta 

 sunt, intelligimus atque quemadmodum vulgaris logica, quas 

 regit res per syllogismum, non tantum ad naturales, sed ad 

 omnes scientias pertinet ; ita et nostra, quas procedit per 

 inductioncm, omnia complectitur. Tarn enim historian! et 

 tabulas inveniendi conficimus de ira, metu, et verecundia, et 

 similibus, ac etiam de exemplis rerum civilium : nee min us de 



