LIB. I. 2634. 17 



subito percutere non possunt ; ut necesse sit eas, quoad 

 opiniones duras et absonas, fere instar mysteriortmi 

 fidei videri. 



XXIX. 



Iii scientiis, qure in opinionibus et placitis 2 &quot; fundatre 

 sunt, bonus est usus anticipationum et dialectica* ; 

 quando opus est assensum subjugare, non res 28 . 



XXX. 



Non, si omnia omnium sotatum ingenia coierint, et 

 labores contulerint et transmiserint, progressus magnus 

 fieri poterit in scientiis per anticipationes : quia errores 

 radicales, et in prima digestione mentis, ab excel ientia 

 functionum et remediorum sequentium non curantur. 



XXXI. 



Frustra magnum expectatur augmentum in scientiis 

 ex superinductione et insitione novorum super vetcra : 

 sed instauratio facienda est ab imis fundamentis, nisi 

 libeat perpetuo circumvolvi in orbem, cum exili et 

 quasi contemnendo progressu 29 . 



XXXII. 



Antiquis auctoribus suns constat honos, atque adeo 

 omnibus 30 ; quia non ingeniorum aut facultatum indu- 



27 &quot;placita,&quot; arbitrary views, with- Bacon seems here to allude to 

 out foundation except in the mind Matth. ix. 16. &quot; No man putteth a 

 of him who holds them ; the Ari- piece of new cloth unto an old gar- 

 stotelian 6f&amp;lt;ris. ment, &c.&quot; 



28 This &quot; subjugation of assent&quot; 30 Cf. Preface : &quot; non ingenio- 

 is the part of those who are content rum, &c.&quot; He declares farther on 

 to use the &quot; subtilitas Intellectus,&quot; that the new Method does not exalt 

 without troubling themselves about but level intellects : cf. Infr. I. 122. 

 the &quot; subtilitas rerum.&quot; Though, for the sake of obtaining a 



29 If the system be thoroughly bad, hearing, he is willing there should 

 no patching will avail. The more, be two &quot; doctrinarum emanationes&quot; 

 too, it is used, the farther wrong it two systems going on side by 

 will lead; or at any rate, it will, at side; yet he fully believed that his 

 the best, carry us round and round own must soon put an end to the 

 in a circle, without real progress, other, as indeed it has done. 



C 



