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obliges a materialist view of morals : unless indeed one so ex 

 pand the term Matter as to break down all distinctions of fact : 

 for the man who tells me that digestion and thought are alike 

 in kind ; the former a process of the stomach, the latter of the 

 brain ; tells me what he cannot prove, and what I am not 

 bound to accept, Wherever we discern a fact we may register 

 it and think upon it : and there are facts of intellectual or 

 moral appreciation as well as of physical sensation. And he 

 who says that because these are all facts, they are all material, 

 cither defines his terms badly, or assumes what lie has no right 

 to assume, and dictates in the presumption of ignorance. 



With regard to Bacon s admiration for Democritus and the 

 Atheist Philosophy of the Ancients : we must remember what 

 that Philosophy stood over against ; and we shall immediately 

 discern that Bacon s liking for it arose, not from its Atheism, 

 but from its inductive and searching character. And more. 

 Bacon is himself careful to distinguish between Nature (i. c. 

 external Nature) and the thinking powers of man. (See Nov. 

 Org. II. 2. &quot; Licet in Natura nihil vcre existat praster corpora 

 individua in doctrinis tamen,&quot; &c.) So that we are bound to 

 believe that his respect for Democritus was limited by the 

 bounds of external Nature. 



Lastly, as respects his views on Final Causes ; he particu 

 larly refers, in his judgment on them, to the discovery of 

 Physical truths ; and not at all to moral subjects, as may be 

 seen by reference to his remarks on Causes in the Advance 

 ment of Learning. He foresaw the very use of his objection to 

 them, that has been made, and guards against it. Ineffectually, 

 it appears. For men who are interested in making out his 

 character as an unbeliever, do not fairly put side by side his 

 different statements on the same subject ; but prefer to use 

 such only as seem to make for their views. But if any one Avill 

 honestly let Bacon here, as elsewhere, speak for himself, he Avill 

 acquit him of any desire to injure the truths of Christianity, by 

 his disregard of Final Causes. This point 1 have also treated 

 of at some length in the notes upon the text. 11. 2. to which I 

 refer my reader. 



1 gladly turn from this unsatisfactory method of dealing with 



