DEEST 



PARS PEIMA INSTAURATIONIS, 



QILS3 COMPLECTITUR 



PARTITIONES SCIENTIARUM. 



Illce tamen ex Secundo Libro de Progressibus faciendis in Doctrina 



Divina et Humana, nonnulla ex parte 



peti possunt. 1 



SEQUITUK 



SECUISTDA PARS INSTAURATIONIS, 



ARTEM IPSAM 



Interpretandi Naturam, et verioris adoperationis Intellectus exhibet: 



neque earn ipsam tamen in Corpore tractatus justi, 



sed tantum digestam per summas, in 



Aphorismos.^ 



1 This is omitted in the common editions of Bacon's collected works (in all, 1 be- 

 lieve, except Montagu's) ; the De Augment is Scieutiarum, with the title " Instaura- 

 tionis Magnae: pars prima " prefixed on a separate leaf, being substituted for it. And 

 it is true that Bacon did afterwards decide upon supplying this deficiency by a trans- 

 lation of the Advancement of Learning enlarged; that he produced the De Augmentis 

 Scientiarum with that intention and understanding ; and that though the original 

 edition does not bear " Instaurationis Magnte pars prima " on the titlepage, yet in 

 Dr. Rawley's reprint of it in 1638 those words were inserted. Nevertheless this notice 

 is of importance, as showing that when Bacon published the Novum Organum he did 

 not look to a mere enlargement of the Advancement of Learning as satisfying the in- 

 tention of the pars prima ; for if he had, he would have referred to the work itself, 

 not to the second book only. He meant, no doubt, to reproduce the substance of it 

 in a different form. And my own impression is that the Descriptio Globi Intellectu- 

 alis was originally designed for this place, and that he had not yet abandoned the 

 hope of completing it ; but that soon after, fortune gone, health shaken, assistance 

 not to be commanded, and things of more importance remaining to be done, he found 

 he had not time to finish it on so large a scale, and therefore resolved to enlarge the 

 old house instead of building a new one. J. S. 



2 This explains a certain discrepancy between the design of the second part, as set 

 forth in the Distributio Operis, and the execution of it in the Novum Organum. The 

 Distributio, like the Dclineatio, was probably written when Bacon intended to work it 

 out in a regular and consecutive treatise, and repesents the idea of the work more 

 perfectly than the work itself. See note on Distr. Op. p. 139. J. S. 



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