36 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



ralibus et materiatis, huic inalo mederi non possunt ; 

 quoniam et ipsse defmitiones ex verbis constant, et 

 verba gignunt verba 81 : adeo ut necesse sit ad instan- 

 tias particulares, earumque series et ordines recurrere ; 

 ut mox dicemus, quuni ad inodum et rationem consti- 

 tuendi notiones et axiomata deventum fuerit 82 . 



LX. 



Idola, qua? per verba intellectui imponuntur, duorum 

 generum sunt ; atit enini sunt reruni nomina, qua; non 

 sunt 8 *, (quemadmodum enini sunt res, qtue nomine 

 carent, per inobservationem ; ita sunt et nomina, qua: 

 carent rebus, per suppositionem phantasticam) aut sunt 

 nomina reruni, qua; sunt, sed confusa et male tenni- 

 nata, et temere et inaequaliter a rebus abstracta. Pri- 

 oris generis sunt, fortuna 81 , priinuni mobile*&quot; , planeta- 

 runi orbes 8 &quot; , elementum ignis 87 , et liujusmodi com- 



81 Such as the definitions of Plea- impose on the Intellect are, 



sure, Sensation, Will, in which we i. Actual Error in apprehension, 



are often deceived &quot; specie verho- when we imagine we have conceptions 



rum,&quot; while really we are no nearer of things which have no existence, 



knowledge than before. 2. Indistinctness of apprehension. 



8 - So we must betake ourselves ^ &quot; Fortune.&quot; &quot; Chance is but 



to true Induction. As the Indis- the pseudonyms of God for those 



tinctness of Terms and Conceptions particular cases which he does not 



react on each other, our only remedy choose to subscribe openly with his 



is to bring them to bear on one own sign-manual ;&quot; i. e. under the 



another, and to correct one another name of Tv^ 7 ? we include all things 



by a continual appeal to facts. which follow a law at present hidden 



83 These two Idola which words from us. So writes Metastasio : 



. . . . &quot; il eterno giro, 



Che sembra caso, ed e saper profondo.&quot; 



85 Primum mobile. &quot; This first the Nov. Org. in the Library of 



mover, in Ptolemy s Astronomy, was Useful Knowledge, p. 23. 



a supposed immense sphere or hoi- ^ These Orbes were supposed to 



low globe, which included within it be actual crystal spheres (cf. II. 46), 



all the spheres, or Orbs of the pla- in which the stars were set, and be- 



nets and fixed stars, and turned yond those of the Planets was one, 



itself and all these round the earth called the Celum Stellatum, on which 



in twenty-four hours.&quot; Account of the fixed stars were all fastened ; 

 &quot;The fixed stars, fixed in their orb that flies.&quot; Par. Lost, v. 176. 



