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: 22 THE PLAN OF THE WORK. The work is in six Parts : - 1. The Divisions of the Sciences. 2. The New Organon; or Directions concerning the Interpreta - tion of Nature. 3. The Phenomena of the Unive...
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: 22 THE PLAN OF THE WORK. The work is in six Parts : - 1. The Divisions of the Sciences. 2. The New Organon; or Directions concerning the Interpreta - tion of Nature. 3. The Phenomena of the Universe; or a Natural and Expeti- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy. 4. The Ladder of the Intellect. 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy. 6. The New Philosophy ; or Active Science. The Arguments of the several Parts. It being part of my design to set everything forth, as far as may be, plainly and perspicuously (for nakedness of the mind is still, as nakedness of the body once was, the companion of innocence and simplicity), let me first explain the order and plan of the work. I distribute it into six parts. The first part exhibits a summary or general description of the knowledge which the human race at present possesses. For I thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached. And I hold the improvement of that which we have to be as much an object as the acquisition of more. Besides which it will make me the better listened to; for " He that is ignorant (says the proverb) receives not the words of knowledge, unless thou first tell him that which is in his own heart." We will therefore make a coasting voyage along the shores of the arts and sciences received; not without importing into them some usefid things by the way. In laying out the divisions of the sciences however, I take into account not only things already invented and known, butlikewise things omitted which ought to be there. For there are found in the intellectual as in the terrestial globe waste regions as well as cultivated ones. It is no wonder the...
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