218 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



(pqnalia xtnit, ctiam infer \c sinf tequalia, conforme est 

 cum fabrica syllogism! in logica, qui unit ea, qua; con- 

 veniunt in medio. Denique mult urn ntilis est in quam- 

 plurimis sagacitas qua dam in conquirendis et indagan- 

 dis conformitatibus, ct similitudinibus physicis 74 . 



XXVIII. 



Inter prcproqatiras instantiarum ponemus sept i mo 

 loco insfdatidx monodicas ; quas etiam irrcfjularcs, sive 

 hi trrnditax (sumpto vocabulo a grammaticis) appcllarc 

 consiicvimus 75 . Ea sunt, qua ostendunt corpora in 

 concreto ; qua videntur esse extravagantia, et quasi 

 al)ru]&amp;gt;ta in natura. et ininiinc convenire cum aliis rebus 

 ejusdem generis. Etenim instantife conformcs sunt si 

 miles alterius: at iu*tanfifr monodicce sunt sui similes. 

 Vsus vero instantiarum monndicarum est talis, qualis 

 est instantiarum clandcstinarum : viz. ad evelicndam et 

 uniendam naturam ad invenienda genera, sive commu 

 nes naturas, limitandas po^tra per differentias veras. 

 Neque enim desistendum ab inquisitione, donee pro- 

 jirietates et qualitates, qua 1 inveniuntur in hujusmodi 

 rebus, qu;v jmssunt censeri pro miraculis natura 1 , redu- 

 cantur ct comprehendantur sub aliqua forma sive lege 



&quot; 4 Some warning against the &amp;lt; These Sinynltir or irregular 



&quot; Spirit of Sy.-tfin&quot; is mvded in Instances are very valuable, as giv- 



this Aphorism. The analogies are ing something out of course and 



very fanciful, and often erroneous ; uncommon, within very narrow li- 



and it seems throughout to be mits. Saturn s Rings would be a 



much at variance with the general far better example than the Sun 



spirit of his Method. This last sec- and Moon ; and the Letter S is 



tion contains a hint of the ewro^ia, scarcely deserving of a place here. 



&quot; sagacitas qusedam,&quot; required in See Herschel s Discourse, 364. 



those who study Physical Laws. Instances 7, 8, & 9, might have all 



It is not so much as Coleridge s come under one head, for Monodica 



&quot; Mental Initiative,&quot; but only a in Species are what Derlnntes are in 



kind of shrewdness in seeing con- Individuals, and Limitancec are off- 



nections between instances; a sort shoots ofMonodicee, being those cases 



of rapid drjpfva-is aXrjdfias, as Ari- in which two species seem to have 



stotle would have expressed it. transgressed one another s limits. 



