14 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



et post parvam nioram fastidit experientiam : sed haec 

 mala demuni aueta sunt a dialectica ob pom pas dispu- 



tationum 18 . 



XXT. 



Tntellectus sibi permissus, in ingenio sobrio ct pa- 

 tiente ct gravi, (prtrsertim si a doctrinis rcccptis non 

 im])ediatur,) tentat nonnihil illain alteram viam, qua* 

 recta est, sed exiguo profectti : rum intellectus, nisi 

 regatur et juvetur, res ina&amp;gt;qualis sit, ct omnino inhabilis 

 ad Miperandam rerun) obscuritatem. 



XXII. 



rtraque via orditur a seusu et particularibus, et ac- 

 quiescit in maxime generalibus: sed immcnsum quid- 

 dani discrepant ; cum altera perstringat tantum expe 

 rientiam et particularia cnrsim ; altera in iis rite et 

 online versetur: altera rursus jam a princi|)io oonsti- 

 tuat o oneralia (ina dam abstracta et inutilia ; altera 



O I 



gradatim exsurgat ad ca qu;r revera naturae sunt no- 



tiora 1! *. 



XXIII. 



Non leve qniddam interest inter linmana mentis 

 ido1a 1( \ et divina: mentis ideas 21 ; hoc est, inter placita 



zations, such as those of the Neptti- above : &quot; &amp;lt;|Uir rebus hsereant in me- 



nian and Vulcanian theories in the dullis.&quot; These will be the &quot; divinae 



earlier History of Geology. The mentis ideae&quot; of the next Aphorism, 



weariness of suspended judgment which seem also to be the Forms, 



being too the weariness of thought of which we shall hear much pre- 



leads us into grave errors. No- sently. 



thing so much shews that Man s ^ Idola. KiSwXo, phantoms or 

 real good does not lie in dtvpia, but spectres, not &quot; idols&quot; in our sense : 

 in the moral world of actions and &quot;images&quot; as bearing both senses per- 

 feelings. haps comes near the meaning. Hal 

 s &quot; Pompse disputationum.&quot; lam, Lit. of Europe, Part III, Chap. 

 Scholastic and formal Discussions iii. 60, attacks the translation Idols, 

 upon given Theses, relics of which which Playfair had sanctioned in the 

 still survive. Dissert. (Encycl. Brit. p. 455.) &quot; the 

 19 &quot;Naturae notiora.&quot; Aristotle s false divinities to which the mind 

 0iio-6i (an-Xcos) yvapip.MTfpa. Cf. the had so long been accustomed to 

 part of the &quot; Distributio&quot; given bow.&quot; In the Advancement of 



