LIB. II. 10, n. 1-lt) 



nempe ministrationes ; ministrationem ad sensuni ; mi- 

 nistrationem ad memoriam ; et ministrationem ad men- 

 tern, sive rationem. 



Primo enim paranda est historia naturalis et cd pcri- 

 mentalis, sufficiens et bona ; quod fundamentum rei 

 est: neque enim fingendum, aut excogitandum, sed 

 inveniendum, quid natura faciat, aut ferat 2fi . 



Historia vero naturalis et ewperimentalis tarn varia 

 est et sparsa, ut intellectum confundat et disgreget, 

 nisi sistatur et compareat ordine idoneo. Itaque for- 

 mandaj sunt tabulte 27 , et co-ordinationes instantiarum, 

 tali modo et instructione, ut in eas agere possit intel- 

 lectus. 



Id quoque licet fiat, tamen intellectus sibi pel-mis 

 sus, et sponte movens, incompetens est et inhabilis ad 

 oi)ificium axiomatum, nisi regatur et muniatur. Itaque 

 tertio, adhibenda est inductio legitima et vera, qua 

 ipsa davit est interpretationis. Incipiendum an tern est 

 a fine, et retro pergendum ad reliqua. 



XI. 



Inquisitio formarum sic proccdit 28 ; super uaturani 



26 This desire for a Historia Na- these particulars into any exact me- 

 turalis is probably the cause of his thod (though he that looketh atten- 

 attaching a Parasceue as a kind of lively into them shall find that they 

 specimen to his first Edition. (Lon- have a secret order) was, because 

 don, 1620.) he conceived that other men would 



27 Of a first sketch of Tables, we now think that they could do the. 

 had an example in the Sylva Sylva- like, and so go on with a farther 

 rum, &quot; a Natural History in ten collection ; which, if the Method 

 centuries&quot; a work without order had been exact, many would have 

 or digestion, and not really fit to be despaired to attain by imitation.&quot; 

 called &quot; Tables,&quot; for Bacon intend- Perhaps the brief Table in the next 

 ed by it to &quot;represent a know- Aphorism is a fairer specimen, 

 ledge broken,&quot; so to &quot;invite men though even there the instances 

 to inquire farther.&quot; See Rawley s follow no order ; still they are con- 

 Preface to the Sylv. Sylv. &quot; I have nected with one definite subject. 

 heard his lordship say that one 28 From Aph. 11-20 we have a 

 great reason why he would not put particular illustration of the method 



