NOVL M ORGAN I M. 



indites hominuni ita obsident, ut veritati aditus diftici- 

 lis pateat; sed etiam dato et ooncesso aditu, ilia rursus 

 in ipsa instauratione seientiarum occunvnt, ct molcsta 

 cnint; nisi homines proemoniti adversus ea so, quan 

 tum fieri potest, muniant 1 57 . 



XXXTX. 



Quatuor stint genera idolorinn, qua mentes liumanas 

 obsidont. lis (dor-cndi gratia) noniina imposuimus ; ut 

 ])riinuin genus, Idnlti tribw; secundinn, nhtlu specus ; 

 tertium, uloln / &amp;lt;&amp;gt;ri ; ([iiartum, nlnla tltcdtri, voceutur. 



XL. 



Kxcitatio notionuin ct axioniatu.n per inductionem 

 vorain est ci-rte ]&amp;gt;ropriniii nMiiediuin ad hlnln arcenda 

 et suinniovenda; sod tanien indicatio idolorum niagni 

 est iisns. Dortrina enini do ulnli* similiter se habet 

 ad iiifa-jtrt tfifioHt in )t&amp;lt;iti&amp;gt;r , sicnt dootrina do sophisticis 

 clenchis ad dialocticain vulgarem* 



XLT. 



Idoht * tribus sunt fundata in ipsa naliira huinana, 



3&quot; It is worthy of notice that iM As the So]ih. I&quot;!, attacked cer- 



Friar Bacon has pointed out the tain quibbles, and cleared the way 



causes of error as clearly as his for Dialectics, by getting rid of am- 



illustrious successor and namesake biguities, &c., so this part of the 



has done, in the Opus Majus, cap. i. Nov. Org. is intended to clear away 



&quot; Quattuor vero sunt niaxime com- certain jn-ejudices and preoccupa- 



prehendenda veritatis offendicula, tions of men s minds, so as to make 



qnse omnem (|nemcun(Uie sapientem way for the declaration of the true 



impediunt : (i) fragilis et indignse Method. 



auctoritatis exemplum : (2) consue- x&amp;gt; Idolo. Reference may be made, 



tudinis diuturnitas (3) vulgi sensus for a view of the way in which other 



imperitus : (4) proprio? ignorantise writers treat the Phantoms of the 



occultatio cum ostentatione sapien- mind, to D.Stewart s Philosophy of 



tia 3 apparentis. Nam ubi luvc domi- the Human Mind, part II. ch. iii. 



nantur, nulla ratio movet, nullum sect. 2 : see also the Port Royal 



his judicat. nulla lex ligat, fas lo- Logic, chapter on &quot; Des sophismes 



cum non habet ; naturae dictamen d amour-propre, d iuteret, et de pas- 



perit; facies rerum mutatur, ordo sion ;&quot; and Sir J. HerschePs Dis- 



confunditur, vitium pra?valet, virtus course on the Study of Nat. Phil, 



exstinguitur, falsitas regnat. veritas 68 73. 

 exsufflatur.&quot; 



