LIB. I. 106109. 103 



dictum est de natural! philosophia producta, et scientiis 

 particularibus ad earn reductis, ut non fiat scissio et 

 truncatio scientiarum ; nam etiam absque hoc, minus 

 de progressu sperandum est. 



CVIII. 



Atque de desperatione tollenda, et spe facienda, ex 

 praeteriti temporis erroribus valere jussis, aut rectifica- 

 tis, jam dictum est. Videndum autem et si quae alia 

 sint, quse speni faciant. Illud vero occurrit ; si homi- 

 nibus non quserentibus, et aliud agentibus, multa utilia, 

 tanquam casu quodain, aut per occasionem, inventa 

 sint ; nernini dubium esse posse, quin iisdem quaerenti- 

 bus, et hoc agentibus, idque via et ordine, non impetu 

 et desultorie, longe plura detegi necesse sit. Licet 

 enim semel aut iterum accidere possit, ut quispiam in 

 id forte fortuna incidat, quod magno conatu et de in- 

 dustria scrutantem antea fugit; tamen in summa rerum 

 proculdubio contrarium invenitur. Itaque longe plura, 

 et meliora, atque per minora intervalla, a ratione et 

 industria, et directione, et intentione hominum, spe- 

 randa sunt, quam a casu, et instinctu animalium, et 

 hujusmodi, quae hactenus principium inventis dede- 



runt 32 . 



CIX. 



Etiam illud ad spem trahi possit, quod nonnulla ex 



tend. Such books as Herschel s The Baconian Form not having 



Discourse on Natural Philosophy been discovered, his remarks on 



form the best comment on his the growth of knowledge by its 



meaning. means must always be overstrained. 



32 And yet even now how many Man s office as interpreter of Nature 



great discoveries are due to chance, must be more limited than Bacon 



Steam, for example. In the appli- believed it to be : but at the same 



cation of our discoveries, however, time it allows of greater varieties of 



modern times are far more fruit- power and skill than he thought 



ful than the ancient would have possible. For modern Physics do 



been ; for we have grown vastly in anything rather than level intel- 



ingenuity, if we have not in genius, lects. 



