The works of Francis Bacon
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. PART L WORKS PUBLISHED, OR DESIGNED FOR PUBLICATION, AS PARTS OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA J ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE WRITTEN. Constllum est univenram opus I...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. PART L WORKS PUBLISHED, OR DESIGNED FOR PUBLICATION, AS PARTS OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA J ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE WRITTEN. Constllum est univenram opus Instaurationie potius promovere in multta qnam perflcere in paucis ; hoc perpetuo maximo cum ardore (qualem Dene mentibus ut plane conflilimus addere solet) appetentes ; ut quod adhuc nunquam tentatum s,t id ne jam fruttra tenletur. - Auctoris Monitum, 1622. NOVUM ORGANUM. NOTE. Mr. Ellis's preface to the Norum Organum was written when he was travelling abroad and bad not his books of reference about him. He was at work upon it the night he was taken ill at Men- tone, and was not afterwards able either to finish or to revise it. I have added a page or two at the end, by which the analysis of the first book is completed. Of the second book it was not necessary to say anything ; the subject of it being Bacon's method, which has been fully discussed in the General Preface. A few bibliographical inaccuracies of little conseqnence in themselves I have corrected, either in notes or by the insertion of words within brackets. These were merely oversights, hardly avoidable in the first draft of a work written in such circumstances. But there are also a few opinions expressed incidentally in which I cannot altogether concur, though they have evidently been adopted deliberately. With regard to these (Mr. Ellis not being in a condition to enter into a discussion of them) I had no course but to explain the grounds of my dissent, and leave every man to decide for himself upon the qnestions at issne. To avoid inconvenient interruptions however, I have thrown my arguments into an appendix, and contented myself in the foot notes with marking the particular expressions which I hol...
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