LIB. I. 101103. 99 



rus, et quasi exercitus, isque ita sparsus et diffusus, ut 

 intellectum disgreget et confunclat ; de velitationibus, 

 et levibus motibus, et transcursibus intellectus, non 

 bene sperandum est ; nisi fiat instructio et coordinatio 

 per tabulas inveniendi idoneas, et bene dispositas, et 

 tanquam vivas, eorum quae pertinent ad subjectum, in 

 quo versatur inquisitio, atque ad liarum tabularuni 

 auxilia praeparata et digesta mens applicetur. 



cm 24 . 



Verum post copiam particulariuni rite et ordine 

 veluti sub oculos positorum, non statim transeundum 

 est ad inquisitionem, et inventionem novorum particu- 

 larium, aut operum; aut saltern, si hoc fiat, in eo non 

 acquiescendum. Neque enim negamus, postquam om- 

 nia omnium artium experimenta collecta et digesta 

 fuerint, atque ad unius hominis notitiam et judicium 

 pervenerint; quin ex ipsa traductione experimentorum 

 unius artis in alias, multa nova mveriiri possint, ad hu- 

 manam vitam et statum utilia, per istam experientiam, 

 quam vocamus literatam : sed tamen minora de ea spe- 

 randa sunt; majora vero a nova luce axiomatum ex 

 particularibus illis certa via et regula eductorum, quae 



24 Bacon here shews how strongly ed these Forms (if we understand 



his mind was set on the discovery them rightly), nor has consciously 



of Forms for such we take his descended except perhaps in 



&quot; nova lux axiomatum&quot; to be. He the case of Optics which &quot; ter- 



is not content with mere &quot; Literate minata in Mathematico,&quot; as Bacon 



experience&quot; in each Art or even would say, have been earned for- 



with the mutual light discoveries in wards rapidly and deductively. But 



different Arts shed on one another, still the formulae which are the prin- 



(as Colour and Light, Colour and ciples of Optics are scarcely what 



Music,&c.are connected through the Bacon would have meant by Forms, 



medium of Vibration,) but he must This Aphorism is carried out more 



reach these highest Truths, and fully in the next. It is too the germ 



then use a formal deductive process of the &quot; Scala Intellectus&quot; in the 



from them. We need hardly add, Fourth Part of the Instauratio. The 



thatModern Science does not strictly subject is treated more fully in Ap- 



follow this system, never has reach- pendix D. 



H 2 



