91 NOVUM OHGANUM. 



sod iiitccta ot corrnpta 15 : in Aristotelis schola, per 

 logicam; in Platonis schola, per theologiam natnra- 

 1cm; in sccunda schola Platonis, Procli, ct aliorum, 

 per in.ithematicjim ; qntv philosophiam naturalem ter- 

 minare, non gcneraro ant procrcarc debet lf) . At ex 

 philosopliia naturali pura ct iinpennista, mcliora spe- 

 randa sunt. 



XCVII. 



Nemo adhnc tanta mentis constantia et rigore in- 

 ventns est, nt decreverit ct sibi imposnerit theorias et 

 notiones communes pcnitns abolerc, et intellectnm 

 abrasnm et uqmim ad particularia de intcgro appli- 

 eare 17 . Ttaqnc ratio ilia humana, ([uam habemus, ex 

 iniilta lide, et mnlto etiam casu, nee non ex puerilibus, 

 qnas primo hansimns, notionibus, farrago qiuicdam est 

 et congeries. 



Quod si qnis a-tate matnra, et sensibns integris, et 

 mcnte re])iirgata, se ad cxperientiam et ad particularia 

 de intcgro applicet, de eo melius sperandnm est. At- 

 qne hac in parte nobis spondemus fortunam Alexandri 

 Magni : nequc qnis nos vanitatis arguat, antcqnam 

 exitum rci andiat, qna3 ad exnendam omncm vanitatem 

 spec tat. 



Etenim de Alcxandro ct ejns rebus gestis /Eschines 18 



i- r&amp;gt; Cf. supr. I. T)4- f 3; Aliv - of antl cf - wliat Macaulay, Essay on 



Learning, p. 51. I or Plato s inter- Hacon, says on the point. Cf. infra 



mixture of Theology see the Timaeus. II. 8. 



^ This, on the functions of Ma- 17 Quoted by I). Stewart, Phil, of 

 thernatics as merely giving the limits the Hum-in Mind, Introd. II. i; 

 of Natural Science, is far too nar- where he adds, &quot; a great part of the 

 row. Bacon had, of course, no life of a Philosopher must he de- 

 knowledge of the intimate connec- voted not so much to the acquisition 

 tion between high and abstract Ma- of new knowledge, as to unlearn the 

 thematics and Physical truths, as errors to which he had been taught 

 we see them meeting in Astronomy to give an implicit assent before the 

 or Optics. For his views on Mathe- dawn of reason and reflection.&quot; 

 matics see De Augm. Scient. iii. 6; 8 Cf. Advancement of Learning, 



