19H XOVTM OKGANUM. 



m an ens in statn ; sive animal, sive vegetabile, sive 

 minerals; sive aqua, sive oleum, sive aer ; aut aliqua 

 alia snbstantia quavunque susceptiva niotus prtudicti. 

 Calidum autem ad sensum res eadom est : sed cum 

 analogia, qualis competit scnsui. Nunc vero ad ulte- 

 riora auxilia procedendum est. 



XX T. 



Post 7V//W /.N c&amp;lt;n/xD t nti((&amp;lt; prhnfr, et r eject ionem sive 

 r.i clns/rtnn, noc non rindemiatioiicm prhnaiii far tain se- 

 enndumeas; pergendum est ad reliqua auxilia intel- 

 Icctus. circa interpretationem )i&amp;lt;ttt/r\ et inditctionem 

 veram ac pert octam. In quibus proponcndis, nbi opus 

 erit tabulis. procedemus super caliduin ct frigidum 40 ; 

 ubi autem o})iis erit tantum excni])lis paucioribus, pro- 

 cedenius per alia omnia: ut nee confundatur inquisitio, 

 et tamen doctrina versetur minus in angusto. 



Diccmus ita(|iK jirimo loco, de prarogativis uist&amp;lt;ui- 

 tiiirmii n : secundo, de adminicitlis inductionis : tertio, 

 de ri i tifii dtimn inductionis: quarto, de variations in- 

 pro nut lira x)il&amp;gt;j&amp;lt; &amp;lt; ti : qninto, de prcprogativis 

 quateuus ad inquisitionem, sive de eo quod 

 inqnirendum est ])rius et posterius : sexto, de terminis 

 hit/ttixititmix. sive dc .w/oy&amp;gt;\/ omnium natururinii in 

 nniverso: septimo, de dwluctioue ad pra.rhi, sive de eo 



* This shews that Bacon did not ractcristic plienomena, selected from 



consider the Form of Heat to he yet the great mass of facts existing in 



diM-o\vrvd, unless the discussion in nature. Phenomena so selected on 



II. 1 1-20 he supposed to be a sample account of some peculiarly forcible 



of the results of the whole Method. way in which they strike the reason, 



41 Precroyatiffp refers to the Ko- and impress us with a kind of sense 



man system of voting by centuries, of causation, or a particular aptitude 



That which voted first was called for generalization, he considers, and 



the Prerogative Century ; and it justly, as holding a kind of prero- 



was usually found that by some gutive dignity, and claiming our 



prejudice or superstition it influ- first and especial attention in phy- 



enced the rest, which seldom voted sical enquiries.&quot; Herschel s Dis- 



otherwise. Cf. Cic. pro Mur. xviii. course, 190. 

 By this name Bacon denote.! &quot; cha- 



