LIB. I. 123, 124. 121 



cam, tanquam per rotas ex puteo haustam. At nos 

 liquorem bibimus et propinamus ex infinitis confectum 

 u vis, iisque maturis et tempest! vis, et per racemos 

 quosdam collectis ac decerptis ; subinde in torculari 

 pressis, ac postremo in vase repurgatis et clarificatis. 

 Itaque nil mirum, si nobis cum aliis non conveniat. 



CXXIV. 



Occurret proculdubio et illud : nee metam aut sco- 

 pum scientiarum a nobis ipsis (id quod in aliis repre- 

 hendimus) verum et optimum procfixum esse. Esse 

 enim contemplationem veritatis omni operum utilitate 

 et magnitudine digniorem et celsiorem : longam vero 

 istam et sollicitam moram in experientia et materia, et 

 rerum particularium fluctibus, mentem veluti humo 

 affigere, vel potius in Tartarum quoddam confusionis et 

 perturbationis dejicere ; atque ab abstractae sapientise 

 serenitate et tranquillitate (tanquam a statu multo di- 

 viniore 65 ) arcere et summovere. Nos vero huic ration! 

 libenter assentimur ; et hoc ipsum, quod innuunt ac 

 prseoptant, proecipue atque ante omnia agimus. Etenim 

 verum exemplar mundi in intellectu humane funda- 

 mus ; quale invenitur, non quale cuipiam sua propria 

 ratio dictaverit. Hoc autem pcrfici non potest, nisi 

 facta mundi dissectione atque anatomia diligentissima. 

 Modulos vero ineptos mundorum et tanquam simiolas 66 , 



65 This is both Platonic and Peri- excellent. A knowledge of Nature 



patetic. Cf. Arist. Eth. JNic. x. 7. is also a knowledge of Truth. God 



The /St oy deatprjTiKos was described is its Author ; and by studying the 



as a state undisturbed by moral &quot; Ideas of the Divine Mind&quot; we 



storms or trials, in which man by attain to a conception of what is 



pure contemplation approached the true. &quot; Truth and Utility&quot; rather 



knowledge of things as they are, than &quot; Utility and Progress&quot; (as 



not as they seem; and grew more Macaulay reads it) were Bacon s 



and more like to the Divine Na- watchwords. Cf. supr. I. 81. 



ture, whose whole Being (accord- f&amp;gt;6 &quot; Buffooneries.&quot; The word is 



ing to Aristotle) is contemplative, not Latin. 

 Bacon s answer to this objection is 



