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1. 17. both in Solomon's petition, etc., "The Lord appeared to 

 Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what I shall 

 give thee. And Solomon said ... Give thy servant an under 

 standing heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between 

 good and bad ... And the speech pleased the Lord. ... And God 

 said unto him...Lo ! I have given thee a wise and understanding 

 heart. " History of the Jewish Kiny*, i. iii. 5. 



1. 20. donative, a gift. 



1. 21. parables, "And Solomon spake three thousand proverbs 

 ... And he spake of trees from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon 

 even unto the hyssop that springcth out of the wall : lie spoke 

 also of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." 

 Hid. i. iv. 33. 



1. 23. verdure, trees and vegetables. 



1. 24. a rudiment, something undeveloped. Elsewhere Bacon 

 calls rudiments 'participles,' i.e. partakers of two kinds. He 

 defines them as "things, the appearance of which is such, that 

 they seem to be made up of two species or to be ' rudiments ' 

 between one species and another." According to Fowler, moss 

 is incorrectly described as a rudiment. He mentions as instances 

 of 'rudiments,' in the animal world, the order Dipnoi, which 

 have affinities to fishes in one set of organs, and to amphibia in 

 another. 



1. 28. of service and attendance, i.e., of sen-ants to wait upon 

 him. 



1. 30. inquisition, cf. p. 5, 1. 20. The inquirer trying to dis 

 cover the secrets of nature, is represented as playing a game of 

 hide and seek with the author of nature. 



1. 36. the great commandment of wits and means, i.e., con 

 sidering that a king can command the assistance of so many 

 men's brains, and has such large resources at his disposal. The 

 student should observe the truth, which Bacon so often insists 

 on, that Nature does not reveal her secrets spontaneously. He 

 who would learn the truth must patiently 'interrogate nature,' 

 and cross-examine her, as a lawyer does a witness. 



Page 46, 1. 4, for our Saviour, etc. , when Christ was only twelve 

 years old, his parents "found him in the temple, sitting in the 

 midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them ques 

 tions. And all that heard him were astonished at his under 

 standing and answers." Luke, ii. 46. 



1. 7. to subdue nature, a miracle is a suspension of the ordinary 

 course of nature by God. 



1. 8. the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Christian Trinity. 

 The disciples of Christ are said to have been visited by the 

 Spirit, and his presence was revealed to them by their suddenly 



