14^2 NOVI M ORGANUM. 



cnim speret aliquis terminare quaestionem, utruin in 

 motu diurno revera terra a ut codum rotot ; nisi natu- 

 rain rotationis spontanca? prius comprebenderit. 



VI. 



Latcns autem proccssus, de quo loqnimur, longe 

 alia res est, qnani animis hominum (qualiter mine ob- 

 sidentur) facile possit conenrrcre. Nequc enini intel- 

 ligimus meusuras quasdam, aut signa, ant sealas pro- 

 cessus, in corporibus spectabiles; SIM! plane proeessnm 

 continnatnm, qui maxima ex parte sensnm i ugit. 



Exempli gratia ; in omni generatione et transfor- 

 matione corpnrum inquireiidum, quid deperdatur et 

 cvolet, quid maneat, quid accedat ; (|uid dilatetur, quid 

 oontraliatur ; quid uniatur, quid separetur; (juid oon- 

 tinuetur, (|iiid abscindatur ; (juid impcllat, (juid im- 

 pediat ; (juid douiinetur, quid succumbat ; et alia 

 complura. 



Nc(jne hie rursus ha^e tantum in generatione ant 

 transformation e eorporum qua^renda suiit : sed et in 



18 &quot; Latent Process is the secret of reaching things not perceptihle 



and invisible process by which sen- to the senses under ordinary cir- 



sible changes are brought about, cuinstances, have been realised theo- 



and seems, in Bacon s acceptation, retically by the grand principles of 



to involve the principle since called the Calculus, and practically to a 



the Law of Continuity, according to great extent by the discovery of the 



which no change, however small, Microscope. The &quot; per minima, aut 



can be effected but in time. To saltern per ilia, qua? sunt minora 



know the relation between the time quam ut sensum feriant&quot; of this 



and the change effected in it, would Aphorism, is language quite fit for 



be to have a perfect knowledge of the Calculus. This remark holds, 



the Latent Process.&quot; Playfair s too, of Latent Structure. But by 



Encycl. Brit. vol. I. Dissert, iii. all we discover, we only learn the 



p. 459. In Bacon s account of the deep truth of Bacon s Aphorism 



Process of Nature, we see the germ (I. 10) : &quot; Subtilitas Natura? subti- 



of the Calculus, in which he evi- litatem sensus multis partibus su- 



dently would have rejoiced. See perat.&quot; Nor can life and extension 



Price on the Infinitesimal Calculus, of knowledge teach man any other 



vol. I. part. II. chap. ix. (Cf. also lesson, 

 infr. II. S ad fin.) Bacon s hopes 



