i ^74 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



primo diligenter inquisitum fuerit, utrum possit esse 

 tnl is heterogenea inter spiritalia, qualis invcnitur inter 

 li(jui(la: 11:1111 tinn demnm ha&amp;gt;c simulacra per analogiam 

 iion incommode substituentur. 



At&amp;lt;]ue de itixtdHfii.s istis xi(j&amp;gt;/&amp;gt;/t )iti /ifi, ((iiod diximus, 

 informationem ab iis hauriendam esse, quando desint 

 instantia 1 proprho, loco /icr/}f(/ii ; niliilominus intelligi 

 volumus, quod ilia 1 etiam magni sint usus, etiam cum 

 pr&amp;lt;pria&amp;gt; instantia adsint ; ad roborandam scilicet infor 

 mationem una cum propriis. Yerum de his exactius 

 dicenius, (jiiando ad adminicida induct ionis tractanda 

 sermo ordine dilabetur l;l . 



XLIII. 



Inter pr&rngatiras instantiaruiti, ponemus loco vice- 

 simo iu*f&amp;lt;inti(ts /n r.^caiitt x ; (|ua^ etiam inxlunlnt* n l- 

 ajijicllare consuevimus, sed di versa ratione. 

 h s cnim eas :ippellamus, (|iiia vellicant intel- 

 lectunr , /icrxcctni/cx, (piia jx-rsccant naturam : undo 

 etiam illas quandoqiie iii^fnnlidx Dcmocriti A iiomina- 

 mus. K;e sunt, ([iia&amp;gt; de admirabili et exquisita subti- 

 litate natura- intellcctum siil)inonent, lit excitetur et 

 exper^iscatur ad attentioiiem, et observationem, et in- 

 quisitionem debitam. Kxemjdi gratia: (juod ])arum 

 uttuhv atramenti ad tot literas vel lincas extendatur ; 



o 



(|iiod argi iitum, exterius tantum inauratuni, ad tantam 

 longitudinem iili inaurati continuetur; (jiiod pusillus 

 vermiculus, (jualis in cute iiivenitur, habeat in se spiri- 

 tum simul et liguram dissimilarem parti uni 52 ; quod 



- 41 Cf. supra, 11.21. These (id- tion to things which would othcr- 



minicula were to have followed next wise, from their minuteness and 



after the Prerogative Instances. subtilty, have escaped our notice. 



:&amp;gt;(} Instantup vellicantes, which :&amp;gt;l Referring to his Atomic Theory, 



pluck the Intellect by the sleeve, cf. supra, 1. 51. 

 Those facts, which force our atten- - Bacon seems to have thought 



