API KM) IX D. 



Ancient [nduction, 1 may refer the reader to Mr. Mill s Logic. 

 Hk. III. chap. 3. . 2, 3. V 



What then did Bacon propose as a substitute for this un 

 satisfactory system ( 



He sought for a Method which might enable all men (be 

 their natural faculties never so different) to attain the know 

 ledge of truths with equal case and certainty. His Method 

 was to unfold the Form, or real nature (Natura naturans) of 

 things to man s ga/.e ; and enable man to npply his knowledge 

 to the production of new fruit of inventions, and almost of 

 creations in Art and Science. ]Iis Method was then not 

 ascending only, but descending also ; it had a Deductive as 

 well as an Inductive Logic ; it was to dissect Nature, that it 

 might the more surely recompose and rearrange her parts. 



There can be nothing more grand than this scheme. It was 

 to be a Logic of universal application: Logic itself, or (as 1 

 suppose he meant) mental phenomena of every kind; Morals; 

 Politics; all these, as well as Physics, were to display their 

 treasuries of Truth before the eyes of him who held the key 

 provided by the New Method. Before the eye of the Philo 

 sopher the old limits passed away, and he saw a promised 

 land, and the glory of it : the Phantoms of the past he saw 

 flying from the light of that day, in whose grey dawn he was 

 the brightest star ; and no wonder that his imagination saw 

 the Forms of truth peopling the awakened world. It is as he 

 foresaw, and it is not. Much that he predicted has been 

 verified ; but not as he expected. His Method has brought in 

 all modern Science ; and yet it is cast aside. 



We do not possess all the Method as Bacon meant to unfold 

 it; still we have enough to judge fairly, enough to enable us 

 to see his object. For the Novum Organum was intended to 

 have been divided into two great parts. ( i ) The Pars De- 

 struens, and the statement of the end, and an illustration ; (i. c. 

 Nov. Org. I. i. II. 20.) and (2) the nine processes which he 

 entitles the &quot; Helps of the Intellect,&quot; of which he has only 

 completed the first, viz. (II. 22 52.) the Prerogatives among 

 Instances. 



From the famous Aphorisms, I. 100 106. we draw most of 



