j&amp;gt; NOVUM ORGAN UM. 



affectatione provccti, prorsus inodum excesserunt. At 

 antiquiores ex Gnvcis ;i (quorum scripta perierunt) inter 

 pronuntiamli jactantiam et acatalepsioi desperationem 

 prudentius se sustinuerunt : atque de inquisitionis dif- 

 ficultate, et rerum obscuritate, sappius querimonias et 

 indio-nationes miscentcs, et veluti frauium mordentes, 



O 



tamen propositum inhere, atque nature se immiscere 

 non destiterunt : consentanenni (ut videtnr) existiman- 

 tes, hoc ipsuin (videlicet utnim aliquid sciri possit) non 

 dispntare, sed experiri : et tamen illi ipsi, impetu tan- 

 tinn intellectus usi, regulam non adhibuerunt, sed 

 oinnia in acri meditatione et mentis volutatione et agi- 

 tatione perpetua ])osucrunt. 



Xostra autein ratio, u.t operc ardun, ita dictu faoilis 

 est. Ea enim est, ut eertitudinis gradus constituanms, 

 sensum per reduetionein qnandam tueamur , sed men 

 tis opus, quod sensum subset |uitur, plerurnque rejicia- 

 mus : ; novam autcm ot certain viam, ab ipsis sensuum 

 perceptionibus, mcnti ajieriamus et muniamus. Atque 

 hoc proculdubio viderunt et illi, qui tantas dialectica? 



3 Cf. I. Apli.7i,89. and De Auffin. ut sensus tantuin de experimento, 

 Sc. III. 4. experimentum de re judicet. Quare 



4 Shaw explains this difficulty exist iinainus nos sensus Antistites 

 thus :&quot; By contriving ways of trans- reli^iosos, el oraculoruni ejus nou 

 Tnitting things in a jiro])er manner imperitos Interpretes nos praesti- 

 to the senses, that a true judgment tisse : ut alii j)rofessione (juadam, 

 may he formed of them when thus nos reipsa sensum tucri ac colere 

 again brought under view.&quot; It, videamur.&quot; 



seems simply to mean &quot;strengthen- ; Rejecting those hasty conclu- 



ing and defending the authority of sions to which the Intellect left to 



the senses by keeping them within itself will leap immediately after 



their proper limits ;&quot; as Bacon says sensible appreciation. Here again 



(I. 126.) &quot; sensui non derogamus the Distributio throws light on the 



sed ministramus.&quot; It will be best meaning &quot; Quod vero attinet ad 



explained, perhaps, by reference to notiones primus intellectus; nihil 



that part of the &quot; Distributio ope- est eorum, qua? intellectus sibi per- 



ris,&quot; which refers to the Nov. Org. missus congessit, quin nobis pro 



where he says, &quot; Perception! sensus suspecto sit, nee ullo modo ratum, 



immediata? ac i)ropria^ non multum nisi novo judicio se stiterit, et secun- 



tribuimus : sed eo rem deducimus, dum illud pronunciatum fuerit.&quot; 



