52 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



manorum erga fratres suos) pugnacibus confutationibus 

 contrucidasset, de singulis pronunciavit ; et ipse rursus 

 qiurstiones ex arbitrio suo subornat, delude conficit ; ut 

 omnia certa sint et decreta : quod etiam apud succes- 

 siones suas valet, et in nsu est. 



At Platonis schola acatalepsiam introduxit, primo 

 tanquani per jocum et ironiain, in odium veteruni 

 sophistarum, Protagoiw, IIippia.% et reliquorum, qui 

 nihil tani verebantur, quam ue dubitare de re aliqua 

 vidcrentur. At nova academia acatalepsiam dogmati- 

 zavit, et ex professo tenuit : qiuv licet honestior ratio 

 sit, &amp;lt;|uam pronunciandi licentia, quum ipsi pro se di- 

 cant, se mininie confundere inquisitionem, ut Pyrrho 

 fecit et Ephectici- , sed habere quod sequantur ut 

 probabile, licet non habeant quod teneant ut verum ; 

 tamen postquam animus humanus de veritate inve- 

 nienda semel desperaverit, oinnina omnia fiunt langui- 

 diora : ex quo fit, ut deflectant homines potius ad 

 amoenas disputationes et discursus, et rerum quasdam 

 peragrationes, quam in severitate inquisitionis se susti- 



I). Stewart s Phil, of the Human humble view of our powers of mind; 



Mind, Introtl. II. i. to wait patiently till we see the truths 



What view did Bacon then take ? of Nature, and not to content our- 



&quot;NVe shall find an answer in this whole selves with the phantoms of the 



work ; and in a short form in one of Imagination, or the baseless theo- 



thewise sayings in the Adv. of Learn- ries of the Intellect. This is the 



ing (p. 51 ) : &quot; If a man will begin with true (TTO^TJ, which slowly indeed, but 



certainties, he shall end in doubts ; all the more surely, has led to just 



but if he will be content to begin views of things, and to a practical 



with doubts, he shall end in cer- Truth and Utility such as Bacon 



tainties.&quot; His was the just doubt- set before himself, and left it to 



fulness of Caution, such as Descartes posterity to attain to : cf. also infra 



brought in as a preparation for phi- I. 126. 



losophical investigation: a deter- 25 &quot;Ephectici.&quot; &quot;Ephectica(Phi- 



mination to judge nothing without losophia) dicitur ab eventu, quod 



sufficient data : to appeal first to post inquisitionem ambigatur iti 



facts; and if nature gives no reply dem.&quot; Diog. Laert. vita Pyrrh. 



still to suspend judgment ; a will- They enjoyed many names dno- 



ingness, too, to narrow the field of pijriKoi, (JK^TTTIKOI, f 



our obaervations ; to take a more KOI. 



