18 NOVT.M OlUrAM M. 



citur comparatio, sod via-; nosque 11011 judieis. sod indi- 

 cis ; &quot; personam sustinemits. 



XXXIII. 



Xulluiii (dicendum enini est aperte) recto fieri potest 

 judiciuni nee do via nostra, nee do iis cpux; secundum 

 eam inventa sunt. per tutfic/ /xif/ottr.^ (rationein scilicet 

 qua in usu est) (juia non postulandum cst ut ejus rci 

 judieiu stetur, &amp;lt;pi;e ipsa in judiciuni voeatur. 



XXXIV. 



Xeque etiain tradendi ant explieandi ea, &amp;lt;|ua i addu- 

 einius. tacili&amp;gt; est ratio; &amp;lt;piia, &amp;lt;pue in se nova sunt, iu- 

 telligentur tamen ex analogia veterunr 1 - 



XXXV. 



Dixit Horgia :a d&amp;lt;- expeditione Gallorum in Italiain, 

 cos venisse cum creta in inanibus, ut diversoria nota- 

 rent, non cum ariuis, ut perriunperent ;u . Itidein et 



Adv. of Learning (p. 152): &quot; I like 

 better that entry of Truth which 

 conu-th peaceably with chalk to 

 mark up those minds which are 

 capable to lodge and harbour it, 

 than that winch eometh with pug 

 nacity and contention.&quot; He has 

 also quoted it in the De Augmcntis. 

 For he was peculiarly given to re 

 peat his favourite illustrations; and 

 in this his mind seems to have been 

 somewhat like Coleridge s. He was 

 peculiarly free from all disputa 

 tious humours, and despised rather 

 than attacked those whose know 

 ledge was cast in a scholastic mould, 

 or whose minds were unfit to re 

 ceive his doctrines. Macaulay (Essay 

 on Bacon) says, &quot; he never engaged 

 in controversy ; nay, we cannot re 

 collect, in all his philosophical works, 

 a single passage of a controversial 

 character.&quot; The man whose genius 

 led him so clearly to discern resem- 



;! This use of iinli j; 

 leads one to think the Iniliria of the 

 title must l&amp;gt;e &quot; the oj-enin^ out of ;i 

 ne\v \v:iy.&quot; 



:i - The undent system niul way of 

 thought would he eertainly hnm^ht 

 to bear unfavourably on his : there 

 fore he :-ets to work to oppose this, 

 and at the same time to apologise 

 for the dilliculty of tlii^ his work : 

 ef. Preface (l Jin. &quot; Kx analo^ia 

 veterum :&quot; Man, as he li\ es in the 

 midst of relations, subject to all 

 the influences of what Butler calls 

 &quot; continuous analogies,&quot; can very 

 rarely grasp any truth or principle 

 absolutely; he needs illustration and 

 connection to make it intelligible to 

 him. 



M This Borgia was Alexander VI, 

 and the expedition of the French 

 that under CharlesVIII, which over 

 ran Italy in five months. A. 0.1404. 

 ;i4 Bacon alludes to this in the 



