1 J-H 



NOVUM OlUiANUM. 



a tornas respioinnt) constitnat physicam ; atqne liis 

 subordinentnr similitor practica dmv; pliysicce mcclia- 

 jiicn ; int taj&amp;gt;ln/xic((! (perpurgnto nomine) mayia-*, propter 

 latas ojus vias, et niajus imperinni in nuturam. 



X. 



Posito itaquo doctrina* scopo. pergendum ad pra&amp;gt;- 

 repta ; id(|iu online ininime pervorso, ant pertnrbato. 

 At(|iie indicia dc interpretatione iuttttra complectnntur 

 partos in ^enoro dims 2 -&quot; 1 ; primani, do educendis ant 

 oxritandis axiomatibus ab experientia; secnndani, do 

 dodnrondU ant dorivandis experimentis novis ab axio 

 matibus. Prior antoin trif ariam dividitnr: in tros 



-* The Mnyfia which Bacon thus 

 wished to retain has vanished with 

 the discussion of Form-; and we 

 hear of no kind of Magic in Mo 

 dern Philosophy. For Bacon s 

 meaning cf. Adv. of Learninir. P- 

 149. i,-,O, where lit- notes it as deli- 

 dent, and characterises it as &quot; that 

 great liberty and latitude of opera 

 tion which dependeth upon the 

 knowledge of f units.&quot; He believed 

 that a&amp;lt; soon as men had discovered 

 the Forms of things, they would he 

 able to apply that knowledge to the 

 most marvellous effect : and to pro 

 duce results infinitely farther be 

 yond the ordinary expectations of 

 men. than even the tricks of the 

 Magicians of his day were. Cf. 

 also the Magical Instances, infr. II. 



5 1 - 



- : Bacon s critics often forget this 



division of &quot;Method&quot; into the Induc 

 tive, and the Deductive. He never 

 carried out the latter, leaving it as a 

 duty to be performed by posterity. 

 The charges against his Method 

 which seem to be substantiated are 

 those to which Coleridge (The 

 Friend, vol. III. Essay 9) refers 

 the want of sufficient prominence 

 t/iven to the Mental Initiative, and 



(connected with it) the neglect of 

 the fact, that the genius of man act 

 ing inductively may and does over 

 leap the steps of Method; and arrives 

 honestly at some great truth by a 

 short road, as was the case with Dai- 

 ton s Atomic Theory, and with the 

 discoveries of a great part of Mixed 

 Mathematics. 



For the Deductive side of Me 

 thod (in its modern sense), and its 

 great value, see Mill s Logic, Bk. 

 111. chap. xiii. 7. &quot; Deduction,&quot; 

 he says, &quot; is the great scientific 

 work of the present and of future 

 ages.&quot; And again. &quot;A Revolution 

 is peaceably and progressively ef 

 fecting itself in Philosophy, the re 

 verse of that to which Bacon has 

 attached his name. That great man 

 changed the Method of the Sciences 

 from Deductive to Experimental, 

 and it is now rapidly reverting from 

 Experimental to Deductive.&quot; This 

 is partly true, and Bacon seems to 

 have expected it : but Mill s love for 

 Deduction has led him to a narrow 

 ing of the field of Science. There 

 is still scope for countless Induc 

 tions. Cf. \Vhc\vell on Induction, 

 P- 75- 



