LIB. I. 104, 105. 101 



Itaque hominum intellectui non plumse addendae, 

 sed plumbum potius et pondera ; ut cohibeant omnem 

 saltum et volatum. Atque hoc adhuc factum non est ; 

 quum vero factum fuerit, melius de scientiis sperare 

 licebit. 



CV 27 . 



In constituendo autein axiomate, forma inductionis 

 alia, quam adhuc in usu fuit, excogitanda est ; eaque 

 non ad principia tantum (quce vocant) probanda et in- 

 venienda, sed etiam ad axiomata minora, et media, de- 

 nique omnia. Inductio enim, quae procedit per enu- 

 merationem simplicem 28 , res puerilis est, et precario 

 concludit, et periculo exponitur ab instantia contradic- 

 toria, et plerumque secundum pauciora quam par est, 

 et ex his tantummodo quse prsesto sunt, pronunciat. 

 At inductio, quae ad inventionem et demonstrationem 29 

 scientiarum et artium erit utilis, naturam separare de- 

 bet, per rejectiones et exclusiones debitas ; ac deinde 

 post negativas tot quot sufficiunt, super affirmativas 

 concludere ; quod adhuc factum non est, nee tentatum 

 certe, nisi tantummodo a Platone, qui ad excutiendas 



27 Cf. Appendices B and D. word like Demonstratio, and using 



28 This is a part of the Aristote- it as equivalent to that to which it 

 lian Induction, &quot; Inductio cui nihil was usually opposed. Demonstratio 

 occurrit in contrarium.&quot; See Mill s (a7rofietis) was strictly and perfectly 

 Logic, Bk. III. chap. xxii. 4: also deductive among the previous logi- 

 Bk. II. chap. iii. 2. This form of cal writers. Bacon denies the ex- 

 Induction Mill holds to be the basis istence of any such systematic way 

 of our knowledge of what are term- of reaching truth; and so uses the 

 ed Axioms in Mathematics. For word in its modern sense as equi- 

 the Baconian Induction, whose cha- valent to &quot;strict proof.&quot; Any 

 racteristics are given below in this knowledge fairly proved would now 

 Aphorism, (Inductio, quse ad in- be said to be &quot; demonstrated,&quot; and 

 ventionem et demonstrationem sci- the evidence of the senses would 

 entiarum, &c.) see Appendix D, and now be called &quot;demonstrative evi- 

 D. Stewart s Phil, of the Human dence.&quot; For Plato s Method of 

 Mind, part II. chap. ix. i. Induction, see Coleridge s Friend, 



29 Bacon is perhaps rather to be Sect. ii. Essay 8. 

 blamed here for taking a technical 



