102 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



definitiones et ideas, bac certe forma inductionis ali- 

 quatenus utitur. Vernm ad Imjtis inductionis sive de- 

 monstrationis instructionem bonam ct legitimam qnam- 

 plurima adhibonda sunt, qurc adliuc nullius mortalium 

 cogitationem subiore; adeo ut in ca major sit consu- 

 menda opera, qnain adliuc consumpta est in syllogismo. 

 Atque hujus inductionis auxilio, non soluin ad axiomata 

 invenienda, vcrum etiam ad notiones terminandas, 

 utendum est. Atque in hac certe inductione spes max 

 ima sita est. 



CVT. 



At in axiomatibus constituendis per hanc inductio- 

 neni, examiuatio et probatio etiam facienda est, utrum 

 quod constituitur axioma aptatum sit tantum, ct ad 

 mensuram factuni eoruin particularium, ex quibus ex- 

 trabitur ; an vero sit amplius et latins*. Quod si sit 

 amplius aut latins, videndum, an earn suam amplitudi- 

 ncni et latitudinem, per novorum particularium dcsig- 

 nationem, quasi fidejussione quadam firmet ; ne vel in 

 jam notis tantum luvreamus, vel laxiore fortasse com- 

 plexu, umbras et formas abstractas, non solida et de- 

 tcrminata in materia, prensemus. Hiec vero cum in 

 usum venerint, solida turn demum spes merito afful- 



serit. 



CVII. 



Atque hie etiam resumendum est, quod superius- 1 



30 Even after the introduction of necting a general system of Natural 



the new system, jealous heed must Philosophy with particular Sciences 



be taken lest Axioms be hastily makes progress whenever such ge- 



or falsely assumed. For then we neral principles as that of Gravita- 



should warp facts into unity with tion, or of the propagation of Light 



our theories, which is a fatal error and Sound, are discovered. The 



in Physical Science, and not with- Ancient system of commencing with 



out its disadvantages in Morals and Ens and working down by differ- 



Politics. ences to each Science, is, of course, 



31 Cf. I. 103. This work of con- the last thing that Bacon would in- 



