i 4 PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



Plato and Bacon, to build up a perfect State from his own 

 imagination, but he, on the contrary, made himself ac- 

 quainted with the history and institutions of the nations 

 which had come into contact with the Greeks up to 

 his time, and he was able thereby to sketch one hundred 

 and fifty-eight Constitutions a most practical work for 

 politicians and students far more serviceable than the 

 "Republic" of Plato or the " New Atlantis " of Bacon. 



If Aristotle made many mistakes, and even failed to 

 apply his own method as rigorously as he might have 

 done, he none the less left gigantic work behind him ; and 

 whatever may be said of him, he is recognised, by all 

 lovers of truth, as the FOUNDER OF SCIENCE and Inductive 

 Philosophy. He left on the one hand a " Cyclopaedia of 

 Science," and on the other hand, an instrument of research 

 Induction. " He made men aware of the permanent 

 importance of fact, and he taught them to seek explanations 

 of phenomena by the objective method" It is men's business 

 to use that immortal creation induction rightly. 



