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5. The consequences of any doctrine are not to be 

 charged to those who hold those doctrines. 



6. It is improper to refer any saying of an adver- 

 sar to a party. 



Lord Bacon's Arrangement. 



History. To comprehend all knowledge of parti- 

 cular facts and events. 



Philosophy. To comprehend all general conclu- 

 sions or laws, inferred from these particulars by in- 

 duction. 



Poetry. All the arts addressed to the imagination. 



Induction. 



Induction is, when from several particular propo- 

 sitions we infer one general rule. 



It is the business of philosophy to explain detached 

 phenomena, by referring them to general laws. 



The Instantia Crucis. 



When in any investigation the mind is placed in 

 equilibrio between two causes, nothing remains to be 

 done but to look for a fact, which can be explained 

 by only one of the causes, which last must then be 

 considered as the true cause. Such facts perform 

 the operation of a cross, erected at the separation of 

 two roads, on which account Lord Bacon gave them 

 the name of the instantiae crucis. 



Classification. 



The characters of the class comprehend all the 

 properties common to its orders, genera, and species. 



The characters of the order will include all the 

 properties common to its genera and species. 



