II THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE M) 



manner in which scientific investigation should 

 be pursued. 



The progress of science, during the first century 

 after Bacon's death, by no means verified his 

 sanguine prediction of the fruits which it would 

 yield. For, though the revived and renewed study 

 of nature had spread and grown to an extent which 

 surpassed reasonable expectation, the practical 

 results the "good to men's estate" were, at 

 first, by no means apparent. Sixty years after 

 Bacon's death, Newton had crowned the long 

 labours of the astronomers and the physicists, by 

 co-ordinating the phenomena of molar motion 

 throughout the visible universe into one vast sys- 

 tem ; but the " Principia " helped no man to either 

 wealth or comfort. Descartes, Newton, and 

 Leibnitz had opened up new worlds to the mathe- 

 matician, but the acquisitions of their genius 

 enriched only man's ideal estate. Descartes had 

 laid the foundations of rational cosmogony and of 

 physiological psychology ; Boyle had produced 

 models of experimentation in various branches of 

 physics and chemistry ; Pascal and Torricelli had 

 weighed the air ; Malpighi and Grew, Ray and 

 Willoughby had done work of no less importance 

 in the biological sciences ; but weaving and spin- 

 ning were carried on with the old appliances ; 

 nobody could travel faster by sea or by land than 

 at any previous time in the world's history, and 

 King George could send a message from London 



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