76 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



fovent, negligens oninino cst, ct vix vorbo ipsi congrua. 

 Mundi cnini scniiini et grandacvitas pro antiquitate vore 

 habcnda sunt ; qua 1 temporibus nostris tribui debent, 

 non juniori a-tati inundi, quails apud antiquos fuit. 

 Tlla cMiiiu tvtas, rcspectu nostri, antiqua ct major; re- 

 speotu inuudi ipsius, nova ct minor fuit. Atquc rcvera 

 quemadmoduni inajoreiu rcruin humanaruni notitiam, 

 ct niaturius judieiuni, ab honiinc scne expectamns, 

 quain a juvcnc, pro]&amp;gt;tcr expericntiam, ct rcruin, quas 

 vidit, ct audivit, ct cogitavit, varictatem ct copiam ; 

 codcm modo ct a nostra a&amp;gt;tatc (si vires suas nossct, ct 

 cxpcriri ct intcndcrc vcllct) inajora inulto (juam a 

 priscis tcinporibus expeotari j&amp;gt;ar cst ; utj&amp;gt;otc a-tate 

 inuudi grand lore, ct infinitis experimentis ct obscrva- 

 tionibus&quot; 11 aucta ct cumulata. 



Xcquc pro nihilo a stimanduni, quod ]&amp;gt;cr longinquas 

 navigationes ct peregrinationes (qua 1 scculis nostris in- 

 crcbucrunt) ])luriiua in natura patucrint, ct rcj&amp;gt;crta sint, 

 qua- novani philosopliia 1 luccni imniittcrc possint. Quin 

 ct turpc hominibus forct, si globi matcrialis tractus, 

 tcrrarum videlicet, mariuni, astrorum, nostris tcinpori 

 bus iinmcnsuni apcrti ct illustrati sint ; globi autcm 

 intcllcctualis finis inter vctcrum invcnta ct angustias 

 cohibeantur. 



Essay on Human Understanding. &quot; Personal Experiment is neces- 



Cf. also Hooker s Eccles. Pol. V. sary in order to correct our own 



j.i. Observations of the Experiments 



Seneca also had the notion of the which \atureherselfmakes for us 



later times being really the older; I mean, the Phenomena of the Uni- 



and is quoted to that effect in the verse. But then Observation is, 



Opus Majus, i. 9. &quot; Antiquitas se- in turn, wanted to direct and sub- 



culi juventus mundi.&quot; stantiate the course of Experiment. 



79 Experiment and Observation Experiments alone cannot advance 



their relative worth and application, knowledge without Observation ; 



See Sir W. Herschel s Discourse, they amuse for a time, and then 



67. Mill s Logic, book III. ch. vii. pass off the scene and leave no trace 



Coleridge^ Table-Talk, Oct. 8, 1 830. behind them.&quot; 



