NOVUM ORGANUM. 



collcctio aquarum fuisse ante tacta, atquo in his locis 

 hoesisse ct mansisse, ct postca potins per causam vio- 

 lentani dejecta et dctrusa csse, quam naturali motu 

 gravitatis cecidisse : adeo ut conjici possit corporeani 

 molem densam atque compactam in inagna distantia 

 a terra fore pensilem tanquam terrain ipsani ; nee ca- 

 surani. nisi dejiciatur. Yerum de hoc nil certi affirma- 

 mus. Interim in hoc et in imiltis aliis facile apparebit, 

 qnani inopcs simus historia 1 natnralis; cum loco instan- 

 tiaruni certaruin noniiuiHjnani suppositiones aiferre pro 

 exemplis coo-amur. 



Similiter sit natura inqnisita, discursus ingenii. Vi- 

 detur oinnino divisio veru. rationis humana\, et solerthe 

 brutorunr . Attamen sunt iioimnlhp instantia* aetio- 

 nuin, qua&amp;gt; eduntur a hrutis, per (juas videntur etiam 

 bruta quasi syllogizare: ut memoria* prodittim est de 

 corvo ; qui per magnas siccitates (ere enectus siti, con- 

 sprxit a(|uani in trunco cavo arboris ; atque cum non 

 daretur ei intrare propter angustias, non cessavit jacere 

 inultos lapillos, per &amp;lt;|uos surge ret ct ascenderet aqua, 

 ut l)ibere posset ; quod postea cessit in proverbium. 



Similiter sit natura iiujuisita, visibile. Vidctur oni- 



&quot; J licy who allow man no higher ferentia lies in no one quality, and 

 &quot;Differentia than the scholastic certainly not most in his Intellectual 

 &quot;Rationale&quot; -who regard the in- superiority. His &quot;Spiritual&quot; fa- 

 ferential power as the distinctive culties raise him highest. His 

 quality of Humanity must always Moral and Social qualities, and his 

 tremble at any glimmering of a power of combination, all lift him 

 Syllogistic faculty in Brutes, and above other creatures ; and though 

 fear lest, after all, man should be some slight growth and improve- 

 nothing more than a highly polish- ment may be discerned in the men- 

 ed Ape. Yet even then the gift tal powers (if one may be pardoned 

 of speech (^tpuiru&amp;gt;v ytvos avpu&amp;gt;v) for such language) of domesticated 

 would do much to distinguish us beasts, yet Man alone is really pro- 

 from our unpleasant neighbours in gressive alone can consciously use 

 the scale of Creation : though here the knowledge of his fathers as 

 too we approach a little too near to means for the increase of his own. 

 Parrots. But, in truth, Man s Dif- 



