56 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



omnimoda experientia, primum inventio oausarum ct 

 axiomatum verornm clicienda est : et lucifcra experi- 

 menta, non fructifcra qua?renda ;5 - r&amp;gt; . Axiomata auteni 

 recto invcnta ot constituta praxin non strictim, sed 

 confcrtini instruunt ; et operum agmina ac turmas post 

 so trail unt. Yerum do cxporiendi viis, qua 1 non minus 

 (jiiani via&amp;gt; judieandi obsessai sunt ct intcrclusa?, postea 

 diccmus; impraesentiarum do experientia vulgari, tan- 

 quain do mala demonstratione, tantum loquuti. Jam 

 voro postulat ordo rerum, ut de iis, (juoriiin panlo ante 

 mentiononi forinuis, signis :5 ; , (quod philosoplmu et 

 conteniplationes in usu male se habeant) et de eausis 

 rei primo intuitu tarn mirabilis ct inoredibilis, qutrdain 

 subjungamus. Signoruin enim notio pnvparat asson- 

 suni : (Miisirum vcro cxplicatio tollit miraculum. Qua 1 

 duo ad extirpationcin idolonun ex intellectu faciliorem 

 et clemcntiorcm multiim juvant. 



LXXI. 37 



Scicnti.T, (pias liabnnus, fero a Gratis fliixeriint. 

 Qua 1 enim scrij&amp;gt;tores Romani, aut Arabes, ant roeon- 

 tiores addiderunt, non multa, aut inagni momenti sunt: 

 et qualiacunque sint, fun data sunt super basin oorum 

 qu;r invcnta sunt a (ira-cis. Krat autem sapientia Gra&amp;gt;- 



3S Light and knowlcdtrf first, cd to Ijclieve that he regarded all 



Fruit will follow in due time. Cf. thinking men as his rivals. His ex- 



I. 99. 117. 121. cuse is, that some ages being times 



1(1 Cf. I. 61. ad fin. of crisis must fail in reverence and 

 7 This Aph. contains a fierce at- those times in which Bacon lived 

 tack on the older systems : and here were, of all others, the days in which 

 as much as any where we are in- the old lost all its fictitious, and per- 

 clined to say with Mr. Maurice, haps some of its real, value. There 

 &quot; Bacon failed in the homage due must be Iconoclasts whenever any 

 to his great predecessors.&quot; If he thing great is to be done. But one 

 had only differed from them it might might have hoped that the greatest 

 have been borne : but he also shews minds would have acted as mode- 

 so unfriendly a spirit towards his rators, not inflamers. See Cole- 

 contemporaries, that one is inclin- ridge s Friend, s. II. Essay. 



