LIB. I. 613. 11 



conchmationes re rum antea inventarum ; 11011 modi in- 

 veniendi, ant designationes novorum operum. 



IX. 



Causa vero et radix fere omnium malorum in scien- 

 tiis ea una est ; quod dum mentis hu manse vires falso 

 miramur et extollimus, vera ejus auxilia non quse- 



ramus. 



X. 



Subtilitas naturae subtilitatem sensus et intellectus 

 multis partibus superat 11 ; ut pulchrse illae meditationes 

 et speculationes humanse et causationes, res malesana 

 sint, nisi quod non adsit qui advertat. 



XL 



Sicut sciential, qnae mine habentur, inutiles sunt ad 

 inventionem operum ; ita et logica, quae nunc Uabetur, 

 inutilis est ad inventionem scientiarum 12 . 



XII. 



Logica, qtise in usu est, ad crrores (qui in notionibus 

 vulgaribus fundantur) stabiliendos et figendos valet, 

 potius quam ad inquisitionem veritatis ; ut magis dam- 



nosa sit, quam utilis l3 . 



XIII. 



Syllogismus ad principia scientiarum non adhibetur, 

 ad media axiomata frustra adhibetur, cum sit subtilitati 



1 ] This suhtilty of Nature Bacon rjfj.epav, OVTW KUI rrjs f)fj,fTfpas 



seemed to think would be laid bare 6 vovs irpos TO. TJJ (pvafi 



by the investigation of Latent Pro- travrmv. 



cess and Structure and by the dis- 12 For the old system of Logic 



covery of Forms, in Bk. II. His see Appendix B. Cf. II. 52, and 



language is very like that of Aristo- that part of the &quot; Distributio&quot; which 



tie here, and in several other places, is prefixed to this edition, and refers 



See Arist. Metaph. Bk. A the less. i. to the Nov. Org. 



&quot;la-coy de KOI rf/s xaXfTroT^roj O&TT/S 13 What is wanted is not power 



*cara 8vo rpotrovs, OVK ev rols npayfj-a- of drawing Inferences from given 



triv, aXX&quot; (v fifMv TO alnov avr^s. Principles, but of discovering Prin- 



yap Kal TCI TU&amp;gt;V vvKTtpifttov ciples themselves. 

 TTpos TO (frf yyos f\fi TO ^tff 



