16 THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE 



people are all wasting their time, just as 

 Gilbert and Kepler and Galileo and my 

 worthy physician Harvey did in mj day. 

 Where are the fruits of the restoration of 

 science which I promised ? This accumu- 

 lation of bare knowledge is all very well, 

 but cui bono f Not one of these people is 

 doing what I told him specially to do, 

 and seeking that secret of the cause of 

 forms which will enable men to deal, at 

 will, with matter, and superinduce new 

 natures upon the old foundations.' 

 its re- But, a little later, that growth of 



feet on knowledge beyond imaginable utilitarian 

 llfe " ends, which is the condition precedent of 

 its practical utility, began to produce 

 some effect upon practical life ; and the 

 operation of that part of nature we call 

 human upon the rest began to create, not 

 'new natures,' in Bacon's sense, but a 

 new Nature, the existence of which is de- 

 pendent upon men's efforts, which is sub- 

 servient to their wants, and which would 



