FIRST PART OF 

 THE GREAT INSTAURATION 



DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



IN NINE BOOKS 



CONTENTS 



BOOK I 



The Different Objections to Learning stated and confuted; its Dignity and 



Merit maintained . . . . . . . . . .37 



BOOK II 



CHAPTER I 



General Divisions of Learning into History, Poetry, and Philosophy, in re 

 lation to the Three Faculties of the Mind Memory, Imagination, and 

 Reason. The same Distribution applies to Theology . . . .85 



CHAPTER II 



History divided into Natural and Civil ; Civil subdivided into Ecclesiastical 

 and Literary. The Division of Natural History according to the sub 

 ject matter, into the History of Generations, of Praeter-Generations, 

 and the Arts . . . . . . . . . . .94 



CHAPTER III 



Second Division of Natural History, in relation to its Use and End, into 

 Narrative and Inductive. The most important end of Natural History 

 is to aid in erecting a Body of Philosophy which appertains to Induc 

 tion. Division of the History of Generations into the History of the 

 Heavens, the History of Meteors, the History of the Earth and Sea, 

 the History of Massive or Collective Bodies, and the History of Species 99 



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