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changes, but to banks, or mounts of perpetuity, 

 which will not break. Therefore having not long 

 since set forth a &quot;part of my Instauration ; which 

 is the work, that in mine own judgment, &quot; si nun- 

 quam f allit imago,&quot; I do most esteem ; I think to 

 proceed in some new parts thereof. And although 

 I have received from many parts beyond the seas, 

 testimonies touching that work, such as beyond 

 which I could not expect at the first in so abstruse 

 an argument ; yet nevertheless I have just cause to 

 doubt, that it flies too high over men s heads : I have 

 a purpose therefore, though I break, the order of 

 time, to draw it down to the sense, by some patterns 

 of a Natural Story and Inquisition. And again, 

 for that my book of Advancement of Learning may 

 be some preparative, or key, for the better opening 

 of the Instauration ; because it exhibits a mixture 

 of new conceits and old ; whereas the Instauration 

 gives the new unmixed, otherwise than with some 

 little aspersion of the old for taste s sake ; I have 

 thought good to procure a translation of that book 

 into the general language, not without great and 

 ample additions, and enrichment thereof, especially 

 in the second book, which handleth the partition of 

 sciences ; in such sort, as I hold it may serve in lieu 

 of the first part of the Instauration, and acquit my 

 promise in that part. Again, because I cannot alto^ 

 gether desert the civil person that I have borne ; 

 which if I should forget, enough would remember ; 

 I have also entered into a work touching Laws, 

 propounding a character of justice in a middle term. 



