APPENDIX C. 347 



stake, and in what a thraldom the old Logic held all the realm 

 of knowledge. See D. Stewart s Phil, of the Human Mind, 

 part II. chap. iii. Locke s Essay on the Human Understanding, 

 Bk. iv. chap. 17 ; Mill s Logic; Hallam s Lit. of Europe, part 

 III. chap. iii. 77 (note). 



APPENDIX C, 



BACON NOT AN UNBELIEVER. 



BACON S belief in Revelation has been denied by two parties. 

 (1.) By the supporters of blind belief, the antagonists to a pure 

 rational faith, who dislike or dread any appeal to God s world, 

 of whom Le Maistre is the leader ; he having written an &quot; Ex- 

 amen &quot; of Bacon s works, and having condemned him as a 

 blasphemer and an Atheist, (and with him doubtless all the 

 followers of Physical studies 



&quot; omnes uno ordine habetis Achivos 

 Idque audire sat est.&quot;) 



(2.) By those modern thinkers who are termed Positivists, and 

 who, with Auguste Comtc at their head, have elaborated a 

 material system of the Universe, whose tendency, if not its 

 definite language, is toward absolute Atheism. These men 

 have boldly claimed Bacon as their friend and ally. Not that 

 they would affirm, perhaps, that he was consciously an Atheist, 

 or that the trammels of position or education had fallen off 

 from him : but that his mind was essentially materialist ; that 

 he was prepared with a physical system of Ethics, and with a 

 Godless system of Physics; and that had he lived in later 

 days, he would have thrown off the mantle of religion as 

 readily as he abandoned the awkward subtilties of scholastic 

 language. 



It is sad to see blind Superstition leading blind Infidelity till 

 both fall into the ditch. Superstition denounces Bacon as her 

 natural enemy ; and as she considers herself alone the favoured 

 of God, denounces him as God s enemy as well : Atheism re- 



