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1. 23. instead of a fruitful, etc. , the student should notice the 

 stress which Bacon lays on the proposition, that all study is 

 worthless, which is not productive of benefits to mankind. 



1. 24. barking, loud. It is mere noise. 



1. 25. quality, kind. 



1. 28. they are all out of their way which never meet, people 

 who never agree must, it is thought, all be in error. 



1. 29. digladiation, obstinate fighting. 



Page 31, 1. 3. with dark keeping, with being kept in the dark 

 " shut up in the cells of a few authors," p. 29, 1. 10. He alludes 

 to the effect of darkness on the temper of animals. 



1. 5. to leave the oracle, etc. , as for instance in the discussion 

 of such subjects as I have alluded to on p. 29, 1. 23. 



1. 7. the oracle of God's works, called " the book of God's 

 works/' p. 9, 1. 12. 



1. 9. unequal, uneven. Instead of deriving their ideas of 

 things from a direct study of things themselves, they contented 

 themselves with their own erroneous ideas of things. The idea 

 which ?, prejudiced mind forms of a thing no more resembles the 

 reality, than does an image reflected in a mirror with a rough or 

 broken surface. 



1. 13. of all the rest, this is a confusion of two expressions, 

 "Foulest of all," and " Fouler than all the rest." 



1. 14. the essential form, the Latin tr. has ' the very nature and 

 life of knowledge.' The words essence and form signify the 

 qualities which make a thing what it is. 



1. 1 5. for the truth, i. e. , the truth is to reality as the reflection 

 is to the object reflected. We have attained to truth when our 

 subjective ideas about things and their .relations correspond 

 exactly to the things themselves and their objective relations. 



1. 21. to proceed of, we should say/rom. 



1. 23. the verse, quoted from Horace, Ep. 1. 8. 69. 



1. 27. as we see it in fame, as we see in the case of rumours. 



1. 32. fiction and belief, the wish to deceive, and the tendency 

 to be imposed upon. 



1. 36. speak, say. matter of art and opinion, see p. 32, 1. 32. 



Page 32, 1. 6. they had a passage, they were believed. On 

 this subject, see Gibbon, ch. 28. 



1. 9. divine poesies, religious fictions. It was thought unwise 

 to shake any of the foundations of religious belief. 



1. 10. they, for the construction cf. p. 2, 1. 17. 



1. 12. Antichrist, the spirit of evil ; literally, the opponent of 

 Christ. When predicting the signs of the approaching destruc- 



