98 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



tan turn scquens, (ut supcrius dictum est) mcra palpatio 

 est, et homines potius stupefacit, quam informat. At 

 cum experientia lege certa procedet, seriatim et conti- 

 nenter, de scientiis aliquid melius spcrari poterit. 



CI. 



Postquam vero copia et materies historic 1 natnralis 

 et experientire talis. qualis ad opus intellectus, sive ad 

 opus philosophiciim requiritur, pra?sto jam sit et parata; 

 tamen nullo modo snflicit intellectus, ut in illam mate- 

 riam agat s{)onte et memoriter; non magis, quam si 

 quis computationem alicujus ephemeridis memoriter se 

 tenere, et superare posse spcret. At([iie hactenus ta 

 men potiores meditationis partes, quam scriptionis, in 

 invenicndo fuerunt ; neque adhuc experientia literata- 5 

 facta est: atqni nulla nisi de scripto inventio ])rol)anda 

 est. Tlla vero in usum veniente, al) experientia, faota 

 demum literata, melius sperandum. 



CII. 



Atque insnper, cum tantns sit particularium nume- 



23 &quot; Literate experience.&quot; Cf. De produceMethodical experiment; and 

 Augm. Scient. V. 2. Adv. of Learn- Memory dies with each man, while 

 ing, p. 186. One sense given to &quot; litera scripta manet.&quot; The danger 

 this phrase is &quot; experience learnedly of our age is not the want, but the 

 or scientifically conducted&quot; not so abundance of literate experience, 

 much an Art or part of Philosophy, Men actually propose &quot; Congresses&quot; 

 as a certain species of Sagacity of persons qualified, to gather into 

 &quot; Venatio Panis.&quot; This would be Pandects existing knowledge, that 

 the highest sense of the phrase, as so no time may be lost through the 

 indicating experience thoroughly great variety of information. En- 

 well ordered and arranged. But cyclopaedias are an evidence of this 

 here it merely signifies experience want. This is however being done 

 reduced to writing, when experi- quietly by the ordinary progress of 

 ments are recorded and duly classi- things. Chemists have gathered into 

 fied. Mvf)[j.T)v 6 airdvTtcv povvofj.rjTop a compendious shape all the well 

 ipya-riv Bacon holds to be insuffi- proved facts of their Science; and 

 cient. Memory without registry of rejections are constantly going on, 

 facts, is what the recited Epic would as new observations and experiments 

 be to the printed History. Such re- are brought out. 

 gistering has of course a tendency to 



