206 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



ad hujus inductionis, sive demonstrations, instructionem bonam 

 et legitmiam, quamplurima adhibenda sunt quae adhuc nullius 

 mortalium cogitationem subiere ; adeo ut in ea major sit consu- 

 menda opera, quam adhuc consumpta est in syllogismo. Atque 

 hujus inducuoms auxilib, non solum ad axiomata invenienda, 

 verum etiam ad notiones terminandas, utendum est. 1 Atque in 

 hac certe Tnductione spes maxima sita est. 



cvi. 



At in axiomatibus constituendis per hanc inductionem, exa- 

 minatio et probatio etiam facienda est, utrum quod constituitur 

 axioma aptatum sit tantum et ad mensuram factum eorum 

 particularium ex quibus extrahitur ; an vero sit amplius et 

 latius. Quod si sit amplius aut latius, videndum an earn suam 



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amplituduiem et latitudinem per novorum particularium de- 

 signationem, quasi fide-jussione quadam, firmet 2 ; ne vel in jam 

 notis tantum haereamus, vel laxiore fbrtasse complexu umbras 

 formas abstractas, non solida et determinate in materia, 

 _rensemus. Haec vero cum in usum venerint, solida turn de- 

 mum spes merito affulserit. 

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4*- Atque hie etiam resumendum est, quod superius dictum est 

 *7 I de Naturali Philosophia producta, et scientiis particularibus ad 



S / earn reductis, ut non fiat scissio et truncatio scientiarum ; nam 



f^^h I . . 



H *>1\/ e ^ iam absque hoc minus de progressu sperandum est. 



* * ' CVIII. 



*" ^T Atque de desperatione tollenda et spe facienda, ex praeteriti 



'/** tej n P r i s erroribus valere jussis aut rectificatis, jam dictum est. 



f/videridum autem et si quae alia sint quae spem faciant. Illud 



&*/*&** vero occurrit : si hominibus non Guaerentibus. et aliud ao-entibna. 



vero occurrit ; si hominibus non quaerentibus, et aliud agentibus, 



1 " Ad notiones terminandas " may be rendered " in order to the formation of con- 

 ceptions." This passage, especially when compared with the 14th Aphorism, shows 

 that Bacon contemplated a twofold application of induction, though he has left nothing 

 on the subject of the formation of conceptions. 



2 The meaning of this will be made clearer by comparing it with the following pas- 

 sage in Valerius Terminus : 



" That the discovery of new works or active directions not known before is the only 

 trial to be accepted of; and yet not that neither in case where one particular giveth 

 light to another, but where particulars induce an axiom or observation, which axiom 

 found out discovereth and designeth new particulars. That the nature of this trial 

 is not only on the point whether the knowledge be profitable or no, but even upon the 

 point whether the knowledge be true or no. Not because you may always conclude 

 that the axiom which discovereth new instances is true ; but contrariwise you may 

 safely conclude that, if you discover not any new instance, it is vain and untrue. 

 That by new instances are not always to be understood new recipes, but new assigna- 

 tions ; and of the diversity between these two." Vol. Ter., abridgment of the 12th 

 chapter of the first book. J. S. 



