100 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



rursus nova particularia indicent et designent. Neque 

 enim in piano via sita est, sed ascendendo, et descen- 

 dendo ; ascendendo primo ad axiomata, descendendo 

 ad opera. 



CIV 25 . 



Neque tamen permittendum est, ut intellectus a 

 particularibus ad axiomata remota et quasi generalis- 

 sima (qualia sunt principia, qua? vocant, artium, et re- 

 rum) saliat et volet; et ad eoruin iininotain veritatem 

 axiomata media prol)et, et expediat: quod adhuc fac- 

 tum est, prono ad hoc impetu natural! intellectus, at- 

 que etiam ad hoc ipsum per demonstrationes, qune riunt 

 per syllogismum, jampridem cdocto et assuefacto. Sed 

 de scientiis turn demum bene sperandum est, quando 

 per scalani veram, et per gradus continues, et 11011 in- 

 termissos, aut hiulcos, a particularibus ascendetur ad 

 axiomata minora, et deinde ad media, alia aliis supe- 

 riora, et postreino demum ad generalissima. Etenim 

 axiomata infima non multum ab experientia nuda dis 

 crepant. Suprema vero ilia et generalissima (quae ha- 

 bentur) notionalia 2(i sunt, et abstracta, et nil habent 

 solidi. At media sunt axiomata ilia vcra, et solida, et 

 viva, in quibus humanae res et fortune sita 1 sunt ; et 

 supra hcec quoque, tandem ipsa ilia generalissima; talia 

 scilicet, qua) non abstracta sint, sed per hsec media vere 

 limitantur. 



25 This Aphorism is one of the posse, statuere debemus ? &quot; 



most important in the whole of Ba- 26 Notionulia, &quot;notio&quot; is a favour- 



con sworks; although perhaps &quot;phy- ite Scholastic Term. Here it simply 



sical Investigation has now far out- means &quot; residing in the conception 



grown the Baconian conceptionof In- of men s minds rather than in 



duction.&quot; (Mill s Log. Bk. III. c.iii. things as they are.&quot; For a brief 



2.) And did he not seem to fore- account of these &quot; Arbitrary Uni- 



see this when he wrote at the end versals&quot; see D. Stewart s Phil, of 



of this ist Book (I. 130) &quot; Artem the Human Mind, part I. chap. iv. 



inveniendi cum inventis adolescere 6. 



