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diverse putrefactionum, unde animalcula generantur, notandas 

 sunt. 



Atque consensus corporum principalium erga subordinata 

 sua (tales enim ii possint censeri quos notavimus) satis in aperto 

 sunt. Quibus addi possunt sensuum consensus erga objecta 

 sua. Qui consensus cum manifestissimi sint; bene notati et 

 acriter excussi, etiam aliis consensibus qui latent magnam prae- 

 bere possint lucem. 



At interiores corporum consensus et fugae, sive amicitiae et 

 lites (taedet enim nos fere vocabulorum sympathiae et antipathiae, 

 propter superstitiones et inania), aut falso ascriptae, aut fabulis 

 conspersae, aut per neglectum rarae admodum sunt. Etenim si 

 quis asserat inter vineam et brassicam esse dissidium, quia juxta 

 sata minus laete proveniunt, praesto ratio est l : quod utraque 

 planta succulenta sit et depraedatrix, unde altera alteram de- 

 fraudat. Si quis asserat esse consensum et amicitiam inter 

 segetes et cyaneum, aut papaver sylvestre, quia herbae illae 

 fere non proveniunt nisi in arvis cultis : debuit is potius asse- 

 rere dissidium esse inter ea, quia papaver et cyaneus emittuntur 

 et creantur ex tali succo terras qualem segetes reliquerint et 

 repudiaverint; adeo ut satio segetum terram praeparet ad eorum 

 proventum. Atque hujusmodi falsarum ascriptionum magnus 

 est numerus. Quoad fabulas vero, illae omnino sunt extermi- 

 nandae. Kestat tenuis certe copia eorum consensuum, qui 

 certo probati sunt experimento ; quales sunt magnetis et ferri, 

 atque auri et argenti vivi, et similium. At in experimentis 

 chymicis circa metalla inveniuntur et alii nonnulli observatione 

 digni. Maxima vero frequentia eorum (ut in tanta paucitate) 

 invenitur in medicinis nonnullis, quae ex proprietatibus suis 

 occultis (quas vocant) et specificis, respiciunt aut membra, aut 



remark that the latinised form of Feliillans used is Fuliensis, as an adjective ; the 

 proper style of the society being " Congregatio Cistertiomonastica B. Marhe Fuliensis." 

 I have not seen the work of Morotius to which Helyot, from whom the preceding 

 account is taken, refers ; but in that of C. Henrique, also mentioned by Helyot, I do 

 not find any authority for Folitani. It is probable that Bacon's chief information on 

 the subject was gathered orally during his residence in France, before the Feiiillans 

 had ceased from their first love. The expression " ordo . . . fere evanuit " must be 

 taken to mean that the severe rule that they had at first was given up. See Helyot, 

 Hist, des Ordres Monastiques, iv me partie, c. 38. Spondanus, An. 1586, iv. For 

 some particulars of the early history of the Abbey of Feiiillans, and especially for 

 the will of Jean de la Barriere, see Voyage Litteraire de deux Benedictins,'' ii. p. 16. 

 1 On account apparently of this enmity between the vine and the cabbage, the 

 latter was thought to prevent intoxication. See Lemmius, De occultis naturae miraculis, 

 ii. 17. On the subject of similar enmities, see the same work, iv. 10. ; or Cardan' 

 treatise, De rcrum varietate, and particularly the Theatntm sympatheticum. 



