NOTES 



fluence. His chief work is An Essay Concerning Human 

 Understanding. 

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Franciscus Bacon sic cogitavit: thus Francis Bacon 

 thought. 



THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGA- 

 TION (1863) 



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The Method of Scientific Investigation is an extract 

 from the third of six lectures given to workingmen on The 

 Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature in Darwiniana. 



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these terrible apparatus : apparatus is the form for both 

 the singular and plural; apparatuses is another form for the 

 plural. Incident in one of Moliere's plays : the allusion 

 is to the hero, M. Jourdain in the play, " Le Bourgeois 

 Gentilhomme." 



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these kind: modern writers regard kind as singular. 

 Shakespeare treated it as a plural noun, as " These kind of 

 knaves I knew." 



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Newton : cf. page 19. Laplace (1749-1827) : a cele- 

 brated French astronomer and mathematician. He is best 

 known for his theory of the formation of the planetary sys- 

 tems, the so-called "nebular hypothesis." Until recently 

 this hypothesis has generally been accepted in its main 

 outlines. It is now being supplanted by the " Spiral Neb- 

 ular Hypothesis " developed by Professors Moulton and 

 Chamberlin of the University of Chicago. See Moulton's 

 Introduction to Astronomy, p. 463. 



ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE (1868) 



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On the Physical Basis of Life : from Methods and Re- 

 sults; also published in Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews. 

 " The substance of this paper was contained in a discourse 

 which was delivered in Edinburgh on the evening of Sunday, 

 the 8th of November, 1868 being the first of a series of 

 Sunday evening addresses upon non-theological topics, insti- 

 tuted by the Rev. J. Cranbrook. Some phrases, which could 

 possess only a transitory and local interest, have been omit- 

 ted ; instead of the newspaper report of the Archbishop of 

 York's address, his Grace's subsequently published pam- 



