NOVTIM ORGANUM, 



SIVP: 



INDICIA 1 VEEA DE INTEEPEETATIONE 

 NATTIER, 



PR^FATIO. 



2 de natura, tanquam do re explorata, pronun- 

 tiare ausi sunt, sive hoc ex animi fiducia fecerint, sive 

 ambitiose et more professorio ; maximis illi philoso- 

 pliiam et scientias detrimentis affecere. Ut enim ad 

 fid em faciendam validi, ita enim ad inquisitionem ex- 

 tinguendam et abrumpendam efficaces fuerunt : neque 

 virtute propria tantum profuerunt, quantum in hoc 

 nocuerunt, quod aliorum virtutem corruperint et per- 

 diderint. Qui autem contrariam huic viam ingressi 

 sunt, atque nihil prorsus sciri posse asseruerunt, sive 

 ex sophistarum veterum odio, sive ex animi fluctna- 

 tione, aut ctiam ex quadam doctrinae coj)ia, in hanc 

 opinionem delapsi sint, certe non contemnendas ejus 

 rationcs adduxerunt : veruntamen nee a veris initiis 

 sententiam suam derivarunt, et, studio quodam atque 



1 Indicia not &quot; Suggestions&quot; or rendered it &quot; Guide.&quot; 



&quot; Indications,&quot; as it has been usually 2 The Dogmatists : for whom see 



translated, but rather in the sense of Bk. I. Aph. 67. The other class, 



&quot; Delatio rei occultae,&quot; &quot; Tnforma- opposed to them, is that of the 



tion.&quot; I have ventured to use the &quot; Sceptics.&quot; 

 concrete for the abstract, and have 



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