384 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
and determined by matter.” Induction and Deduction were con- 
sidered ; true induction was not mere enumeration. Deduction, 
before Bacon’s time, was the mother of all error; but the percep- 
tion of intermediate forms (laws or order), from the highest, was 
true method. ‘The alliances of the sciences, and the unity of method, 
were illustrated. The history of knowledge showed that wider and 
wider generalities were opening; they must be accepted; the 
greatest knowledge of nature, and the widest generalisations, were 
consonant with pure and living faith, Men must no longer deny 
faith, and the highest spiritual acceptances to other men who could 
not but believe in the highest generalisations and forms, and in the 
sufficiency of natural causes and series. Bacon said ‘the divine 
word itself did not operate upon the mass of things without order.” 
It was vain to assert that a mere physical science would satisfy 
man’s mental wants ; it was as vain for men of fixed and narrow 
vision to attempt to limit the range of others who saw larger forms 
and laws in Nature. Bacon’s philosophy conveyed that to fear to 
accept truth from fear of consequences was to “ offer to the Author 
of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.* The study of the “‘ Novum 
Organum,” and the ‘‘ Advancement of Learning,” might well form 
a more prominent part of the higher education of the country : no 
other human works were so wise and wholesome ; they were the 
temple of the harmony of the greatest knowledge with the purest 
faith. 
SOME RECENT DISCOVERIES OF BUDDHIST 
RUINS IN INDIA. 
ABSTRACT OF REY. S. BEALS PAPER. 
(Read January 28th, 1875.) 

Tuts paper related chiefly to the discoveries of Buddhist ruins at 
Bharhut, in Central India. This place, in our maps, is called 
‘¢ Bharaod,” and, as General Cunningham thinks, may be identified 
with the ‘‘ Bardaotis” of Ptolemy. It is situated just 120 miles 
to the 8. W. of Allahabad. ; 
Here was the site of an old Sttpa which had long ago been 
destroyed. But some buried pillars and rails were disinterred on 
which various inscriptions were distinguishable. 
