Fir.sT TAirr 



OF THE 



GREAT IXSTAURATIOK 



THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARN1N«, 

 IN NINE BOOKS. 



CONTENTS. 

 BOOK I. 



The diflFerent Objections to Learning stated and confuted. Its Dig:uty 

 and Merit maintained. 



BOOK II. 



CHAPTER I. 



General Division of Learning into History, Poetry, and Philosophy, in 

 relation to the Three Faculties of the Mind, Memory, Iniagination, 

 and Iteason. The same Distribution applies to Theology. 



CHAPIER IL 



History divided into Natural and Civil ; — Civil subdivided into Eccle- 

 siastical and Literary. The Division oi Natural Histoiy, according 

 to the Subject-matter, into the History of Generations, Praeter-gene' 

 rations, and the Arts. 



CHAPTER IIL 



Second Division of Natural History, in relation to its Use and End, into 

 Narrative and Inductive. The most important end of Natural His- 

 tory is to aid in erecting a Body of Philosophy which appertains to 

 Induction, Division ol the History of Generations into the History 

 of the Heavens, the History oi Meteors, the History of the Earth and 

 Sea, the History ot Massire or Collective Bodies, and the History of 

 Snecies. 



CHAPTER IV. 



CHvil History divided into Ecclesiastical and Literary. Deficiency c( 

 th« latter. The absence of Precepts for its compilaticit. 



