422 ON THE SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF THE 



furnishes an additional proof of that notoriety. "Lord Bacon," 

 says the writer, " is here, more and more known, and his works 

 " more and more delighted in %" 



There was an Italian philosopher of that period, whose 

 ardent genius, the cruel torture of the rack, and twenty- 

 seven years imprisonment, had not been able to repress ; who 

 fortunately found a friend, to publish in Germany, the works 

 which he penned in the prisons of Naples ; and who has had the 

 honour to be placed in the same rank with Bacon, by no less a 

 judge of philosophical merit than Leibnitz. This was Campa- 

 nella. " If," says Leibnitz, " we compare Descartes and 

 " Hobbes, with Bacon and Campanella, the former writers 

 " seem to grovel upon the earth, — the latter to soar to the 

 " heavens, by the vastness of their conceptions, their plans, 

 " and their enterprises." — " After looking," says Mr Stew- 

 art, (from whose rich stores of varied erudition I have bor- 

 rowed this quotation,) " into several of Campanella' s works, 

 " with some attention, I must confess, I am at a loss to con- 

 " ceive, upon what grounds this eulogy proceeds t." But, how- 

 ever just Mr Stewart's surprise, Leibnitz was not the first 

 who conjoined the names of Bacon and Campanella. Tobias 

 Adams, the person who performed the task of editing those -works 

 which Campanella wrote in prison, tells us, in his introduc- 

 tion to the Realis Philosophia of the latter, published at Frank- 

 fort in 1623, that Campanella, like the great Verulam, took 

 experience for his guide, and drew his philosophy from the 

 book of nature %. The comparison here, is as unsound, as the 



eulogy 



* See Bacon's Life, prefixed to Rawley's Rescuscitatio. 

 •f Dissertation, p. 39. 



I Realis Philosophies Epilogistica partes qualuor ; hoc est, de rerum natura, ho- 

 minum moribus, politico, et eeconomica; cum adnot. Thob. Adami. 



