FIRST 1 AllT 



OF THE 



GREAT IKSTAURATIOK 



THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, 



IN NINE BOOKS. 



CONTENTS. 

 BOOK I. 



The different Objections to Learning stated and confuted. Its Dignity 

 and Merit maintained. 



BOOK II. 



CHAPTER I. 



General Division of Learning into History, Poetry, and Philosophy, in 

 relation to the Three Faculties of the Mind, Memory, Imagination, 

 and Keason. The same Distribution applies to Theology. 



CHAFFER II. 



History divided into Natural and Civil ; Civil subdivided into Eccle 

 siastical and Literary. The Division 01 Natural History, according 

 to the Subject-matter, into the History of Generations, Prseter-gene* 

 rations, and the Arts. 



CHAPTER III. 



Second Division of Natural History, in relation to its Use and End, into 

 Narrative ami Inductive. The most important end of Natural His 

 tory is to aid in erecting a Body of Philosophy which appertains to 

 Induction. Division of the History of Generations into the History 

 of the Heavens, the History 01 Meteors, the History of the Earth and 

 Sea, the History ot Maesire or Collective Bodies, and the History of 

 Soecies. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Civil History divided into Ecclesiastical and Literary. Deficiency t( 

 th latter. The absence of Precepts for its compilation. 



