LIB. II. 19, 20. 189 



ex confusione, utile putamus, ut fiat permissio intellec- 

 tui, post tres tabulas comparentifs primce (quales posui- 

 mus) factas et pensitatas, accingencli se et tentandi 

 opus inter pretationis naturce in affirmativa ; tarn ex 

 instantiis tabularum, quam ex iis, qua? alias occurrent. 

 Quod genus tentamenti, permissionem intettectus, sive 

 interpretationem inckoatam, sive vindemiationem pri- 

 mam 25 appellare consuevimus. 



Vindemiatio prima de forma calidi. 



Animadvertendum autem est, formam rei inesse (ut 

 ex iis, qua? dicta sunt, plane liquet) instantiis universis 

 et singulis, in quibus res ipsa inest; aliter enirn forma 

 non esset : itaque nulla plane dari potest instantia con- 

 tradictoria. Attamen longe magis conspicua invenitur 

 forma et evidens in aliquibus instantiis, quam in aliis ; 

 in iis videlicet, ubi minus coliibita est natura forma?, et 

 impedita, et redacta in ordinem, per naturas alias. Hu- 

 jusmodi autem instan tias, elucescentias vel instantias 

 ostensivas appellare consuevimus 26 . Pergendum ita 

 que est ad vindemiationem ipsam primam de forma 

 calidi. 



Per universas ct singulas instantias, natura, cujus 

 limitatio est calor, videtur esse motus. Hoc autem 



harmful than no progress at all ; a substitution only &quot; notionis ma- 



and definite error is often more gis noscibilis.&quot; Bacon s &quot; Motus&quot; 



tenacious than indefinite. may possibly be right, though the 



a5 This phrase, &quot;Vindemiatio pri- Instances by which he reaches it 



ma,&quot; shews that Bacon does not are wrong. At present the judg- 



think he has settled the subject of ment of the Authorities on Physical 



Heat, or has arrived at its Form, subjects inclines to the contrary 



All the other Auxilia (cf. infr. II. view; viz. that Heat is a very sub- 



21) are yet to be brought to bear tie material substance, not a mere 



upon it. For after all, &quot; Limited motion in other substances. See 



Motion&quot; is by no means a Physical infr. note 38. 



Form, if one rightly understands 26 Cf. infr. II. 24. 

 Bacon s meaning ; but at the best 



