T2 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



turba longe maxima nihil ex hoc sapit, sed meritoria 

 plane cst, et professoria ; nisi forte quandoque cveniat, 

 ut artif ex aliquis acrioris ingenii, et gloria 1 cupidus, 

 novo alicui invento det operam ; quod fere fit cum 

 facilitating dispendio. At a]&amp;gt;nd ]&amp;gt;lerosqne tantum 

 abest, ut homines id sibi proponant, ut scicntiarum et 

 artium massa augmcntum obtineat ; ut ex ea, quse 

 pnvsto est, massa nil amplius sumant aut qua&amp;gt;rant, 

 (jiiam (juantum ad usuni professorium, ant lucruni, aut 

 cxistimationem, aut hujusmodi compendia, convertere 

 possint. Quod si quis ex tanta multitudine scientiam 

 afifectu ingenuo et proj)ter se expetat ; invenietur tamen 

 ille ipse potins contomplatiomim et doctrinarum varie- 

 tatem, quam veritatis severam et rigidam inquisitio- 

 nem sequi. Rnr-us, si alius qnispiam Ibrtasse veritatis 

 in&amp;lt;|uisitor sit scverior ; tamen et ille ipse talem sibi 

 proponet veritatis conditioner!!, qua; menti et intel 

 lect ni satisfaciat in redditionc causarum reruni qiitT 

 jampridem sunt cognita 1 ; non earn, qua- nova opernm 

 ])ignora, et novain axiomatum Incem assequatur. Ita- 

 que, si finis scientiarum a nemine adlnic benc j&amp;gt;ositus 

 sit, non mi rum est, si in iis. qua 1 sunt subordinata ad 

 finem, sequatur aberratio. 



LXXXII. 



Quemadmodum autem h nis ct meta scientiarum 

 male ])osita sunt apud homines; ita rursus etiam si 



home were filthy and wretched; and than ignorance and degradation, 

 nothing is so favourable to vice as which are after all a kind of brutish 

 the prostration springing from bad Infidelity. Macaulay in his Essay 

 food, bad air, and dirt. And self- on Bacon refers to this Aphorism, 

 respect is both good in itself, and His Essay has a worldly and mate- 

 leads to a moral life and to a greater rial tendency throughout (visible, for 

 readiness to receive religious im- instance, in his unjust attack on 

 pressions. And Education, though Plato), which is to be regretted. Cf. 

 its development, often too rapid and also infra I. 1 16. 

 superficial, sometimes leads to men- 69 Facultates, StW/xfu, Property, 

 tal Infidelity, is at any rate, better 



