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A72146	Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.; De augmentis scientiarum. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Watts, Gilbert, d. 1657.	1640 (1640)	STC 1167.7; ESTC S124505	372,640	654

both parties had a just cause yet he thus bespeaks them both Exod. II. You are Brethren why strive you Wherefore if these things be well observed it will be found a matter of great moment and use to define what and of what latitude those points are which discorporate men from the body of the Church and cast them out and quite casseere them from the communion and fellowship of the faithfull And if any think that this hath bin done now long agoe let him seriously consider with what syncerity and moderation the same hath bin perform'd In the mean space it is very likely that he that makes mention of Peace shall bear away that answer Jehu gave to the Messengers Is it PEACE Iehu I Reg. IX What hast thou to doe with PEACE turne and follow me Peace is not the matter that many seek after but Parties and sideing Notwithstanding we thought good to set downe amongst DEFICIENTS as a wholsome and profitable work a Treatise touching THE DEGREES OF UNITY IN THE CITTY OF GOD. ✿ VTRES COELESTES sive Emanationes Scripturarum III Seeing the Parts of sacred Scripture touching the Information of Theology are such and so great let us specially consider the Interpretation thereof nor doe we here speak of the Authority of interpretateing them which is establisht by the consent of the Church but of the manner of Interpreting This is of two sorts Methodicall and Solute or at large for this divine water which infinitely excells that of Iacobs well is drawn forth and deliver'd much after the same manner as Naturall waters use to be out of wells for these at the first draught are either receiv'd into Cisternes and so may be convayed and diriv'd by many Pipes for publique and private use or is powred forth immediatly in Buckets and vessells to be us'd out of hand as occasion requires § Now this former Methodicall manner hath at length brought forth unto us Scholasticall Theologie whereby Divinity hath bin collected into an Art as into a Cisterne and the streames of Axioms and Positions distributed from thence into all parts § But in solute Manner of Interpreting two extreams intervene the one presupposeth such a perfection in Scriptures as that all Philosophie ought to be fetcht and diriv'd from those sacred fountains as if all other Philosophy were an unhallowed and Heathenish thing This distemperature hath prevaild especially in the Schoole of Paracelsus and some others the source and spring whereof flowed from the Rabbins and Cabalists But these men have not attain'd their purpose nor doe they give honour as they pretend to Scriptures but rather embase and distaine them For to seeke a materiate Heaven and Earth in the word of God whereof it is said Heaven and Earth shall passe Mat. XXIV but my word shall not passe is indeed to pursue Temporarie things amongst eternall for as to seek Divinity in Philosophy is as if you would seek the living amongst the Dead so on the other side to seek Philosophy in Divinity is all one as to seek the Dead amongst the living § The other manner of Jnterpreting which we set downe as an excesse seems at first sight sober and chast yet notwithstanding it both dishonoureth Scriptures and is a great prejudice and detriment to the Church and it is to speak in a word when Divinely inspir'd Scriptures are expounded after the same manner that humane writings are For it must be remembred that there are two points known to God the Author of Scripture which mans nature cannot comprehend that is The secrets of the Heart and the succession of times Wherefore seeing the Precepts and Dictates of Scriptures were written and directed to the Heart and Thoughts of men and comprehend the vicissitudes of all Ages with an eternall and certain fore-sight of all Heresies Contradictions differing and mutable estates of the Church as well in generall as of the Elect in speciall they are to be interpreted according to the Latitude and the proper sense of the place and respectively toward that present occasion whereupon the words were utter'd or in precise congruity from the Context of the precedent and subsequent words or in contemplation of the principall scope of the place but so as we conceive them to comprehend not only totally or collectively but distributively even in clauses and in every word infinite springs and streams of Doctrine to water every part of the Church and the spirits of the Faithfull For it hath bin excellently observed that the Answers of our Saviour to many of the questions which were propounded to him seem not to the purpose but as it were impertinent to the state of the question demanded The Reasons hereof are two the one that being he knew the thoughts of those that propounded the Questions not from their words as we men use to doe but immediatly and of himselfe he made answer to their thoughts not to their words The other Reason is that he spak not only to them that were then present but to us also who now live and to men of every Age and place to whom the Gospell should be preacht which sense in many places of Scripture must take place § These thus briefely toucht and fore-tasted come we now to that Treatise which we report as Deficient There are found indeed amongst Theologicall writings too many books of Controversies an infinite masse of that Divinity which we call Positive as Common-places Particular Treatises Cases of Conscience Sermons Homilies and many Prolix Commentaries upon the Books of Scripture but the Forme of writing Deficient is this namely a succinct and sound Collection and that with judgement of Annotations and observations upon particular Texts of Scripture not dilateing into common-places or chaseing after Controversies or reduceing them into method of Art but which be altogither scatterd and Naturall a thing indeed now and then exprest in more learned Sermons which for most part vanish but which as yet is not collected into Books that should be transmitted to Posterity Certainly as wines which at first pressing run gently yeeld a more pleasant tast than those where the wine-presse is hard wrought because those somewhat relish of the stone and skinne of the Grape so those observations are most wholsome and sweet which flow from Scriptures gently exprest and naturally expounded and are not wrested or drawn aside to common-places or Controversies such a Treatise we will name The Emanations of Scripture § Thus have we made as it were a small Globe of the Jntellectuall world as faithfully as we could togither with a designation and description of those parts which I find not constantly occupate or not well converted by the Industry and labours of men In which work if I have any where receded from the opinion of the Ancients I desire that Posterity would so judge of my intentions as that this was done with a mind of further Progression and Proficience in melius and not out of a humour

Imaginatiō § Memory Appetite § Will. Appendices Divination Fascination Sensible Voluntary Motion Sense § Perception Vse and Objects of Faculties Lib. V. Hence the Emanations of Logique Ethique Civile Lib. VIII LIB V. THE PARTITION OF THE VSE AND OBIECTS OF THE FACVLTIES OF THE MIND INTO LOGIQUE hath foure Intellectuall Arts. I Inquisitiō or Jnvention of Cap. 2. Arts into Literate Experience by Variation § Production Translation § Inversion Application § Copulation Casualty or Chance Interpretation of Nature Nov. Organ Arguments into Cap. 3. Preparation or Provision Suggestion or Topiques Generall Particular II Examination or Judgement by Cap. 4. Induction Whereof a collection is in the Nov. Org. Syllogisme into 1 Reduction Direct Invert 2 Analitique Art Knowledge of Elenchs Sophismes Elenches handled by Arist in precept by Plato in example Elenchs of Interpretation of Terms Majority Minority Priority Posteriority Power Act c. Idolaes or impressions frō the Generall nature of man Individuall tēper Imposition of words names Append Analogy of Demonstration from the nature of the subject III Custody or Memory into Cap. 5. Helps to memory Writing Memory it selfe by Prenotion Embleme Elocution or Tradition LIB VI. ETHIQUES referr'd to mans will LIB VII LIB VI. THE PARTITION OF THE ART OF ELOCVTION OR OF TRADITION INTO THE ORGAN OF SPEECH into ✿ Notes of things Hieroglyphiques Reall characters Speaking Hence the original of Grammer Popular ✿ Philosophicall Writing Append. to Speech-Poetique measure Writing-Ciphers METHOD of SPEECH the Cap. 2. Kinds Magistrall § ✿ Of Probation or Initiative Exoterique § Acroamatique Delivery By way of Aphorisme By way of Method Delivery By Assertions and Proofes By Questions and Determinations Method Fitted to matter Vpon presupposition Method by way of Information § Anticipation Method Analitique § Systutique Diaeretique § Cryptique § Homericall Parts Disposition of a whole work Limitation of Propositions their Extention Production ILLUSTRATION of SPEECH or RHETORIQUE The vse and office Application ✿ Of the dictates of Reason to Imaginatiō Of speech respectively to particulars or the wisdome of private speech Append ✿ Colours of Good and Evill simple compar'd ✿ Anti-theta Rerum or the coūterpoint of things ✿ Lesser Stiles and Formes of Speech Two generall Appendices touching the Tradition of Knowledge Criticall Corrected Editions Interpretation of Authors A judgement upon Authors Paedanticall Collegiate education of youth A Caveate against Compends Application of studies to the quality of wits LIB VII THE PARTITION OF MORALL KNOWLEDGE INTO THE PLATFOKME of GOOD Cap. 1. Simple or the kinds of Good Cap. 2. Individuals or virtues Active from a desire of Perpetuity Certainty Variety Passive Conservative Good Perfective Good Of Communion or Duties Generall Respective Duties of Professions c. Oeconomicall Politicall duties ✿ Vices Impostures fraudes cautils c. Of professions Individ common Simply and irrespectively taken Comparatively between Man and Man Case and case Publike and private Time and time Compared or the Degrees of Good of Honesty § Profit § Pleasure Body § Mind § Fortune Contemplative Active Good CULTURE of the MIND in the Cap. 3. Characters or tempers Impressed by Nature to Armes § Leters Contemplative § Active course of life Impos'd by Chance of Sex § Age. § Region Health § Beauty c. Fortune Nobility § Honors Riches § Poverty Affections or distempers their Names Pleasure paine fear hope Anger Patience Love Hate Nature How stirr'd How still'd How secreted How disclosed What operations they produce What turnes they take How enwrapt How they encountre Cures or Remedies Custome Exercise Habit Education Emulation Company Friends Fame Reproofe Exhortation Lawes Books Study Briefe precepts hereof Append. The Congruity between the Good of Body and Mind LIB VIII THE PARTITION OF CIVILE KNOWLEDGE INTO CONVERSATION Cap. 1 Not Affected much lesse despised But Moderated that is either Generall in Speech in the Conception Vtterance Gesture of Speaker Hearer Respective to the Quality of Men. Nature of Matter § § Of time § Of Place NEGOCIATION Cap. 2. Scattered occasions examples thereof out of Solomōs Proverbs The Advancemēt of Fortune Precepts thereof Summary in the Knowledge of Others Six waies by Countenance Works Actions Nature Ends. Reports Three waies Acquaintance with men well seen in the world A wise temper in liberty of speech and silence A present dexterity both to observe and act Himselfe How his Nature and abilities sort with The estate of the present time Professiōs that are in prize His competitors in fortune The Friends he hath chosen The examples he would follow Art of Setting forth his Virtues Fortunes Merits Concealing his Defects and Disgraces by Caution Colour Confidence Declaring a Mans mind in particulars by a mediocrity of Revealing Concealing Framing the mind to become flexible to occasions of place time persons c. Spars'd That he be well skill'd what instruments to use and how That he overtaske not his own abilities That he doe not alwaies stay for but sometimes provoke occasions That he never undertake great or long works That he never so engage himselfe but that he leave a posterne dore open for retreat That he so love as he may hate upon occasion GOVERMENT of STATES Cap. 3. Partitions omitted Deficients ✿ The art of enlarging an Estate ✿ The fountains of Lawes Certain in the intimation Iust in the commandment Fit to be put in execution Agreeing with the form of the state Begetting virtue in the Subjects LIB IX INSPIRED THEOLOGY The Partition of Inspired Divinity is omitted only an entrance is made unto three DEFICIENTS DEFICIENTS I ✿ THE LIMITS AND VSE OF HVMAN REASON IN MATTERS DIVINE The Vse it selfe Explication of Divine Mysteries Inferences thence deduced Excesses in that Vse Mineing into things not revealed by a too Curious inquiry Attributing equall Authority to Dirivations as to Principles themselves II ✿ THE DEGREES OF VNITY IN THE CITTY OF GOD In Points Fundamentall one Lo. one Faith c. Superstructive or of perfection ¶ A dissent in Fundamentell Points discorporates men from the Church of God not so in superstructive Points III ✿ EMANATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE Wherein are observed Errors in Interpretation In supposing that all Philosophy is derived from Scripture as the Schoole of Paracelsus did and some others now doe In interpreting Scripture as one would a humane Author whereas two things were known to God which are not known to Man The Secrets of the Heart Succession of Times A Desiderate A Collection of Positive Divinity upon particular Texts in briefe observations prejudiced by Dilating into common places Chasing after Controversies Reducing to Methods The Emanation of SCIENCES from the Intellectuale Faculties of MEMORY IMAGINATION REASON From these ¶ ¶ I HISTORY Naturale The Subject the Vse LIB II. Civile Civile properly so called LIB II. Ecclesiasticale LIB II. Literary LIB II. II POESY Narrative or Historicall LIB II. Drammaticall or represent LIB II. Parabolicall or Allusive LIB II. III PHILOSOPHY Primitive Sapience the receptacle of

of State to Diaries Acts and Accidents of a meaner nature And in my judgment a Discipline of Heraldry would be to purpose in the disposing of the merits of Books as of the merits of Persons For as nothing doth more derogate from Civile Affaires than the confusion of Orders and Degrees so it doth not a litle embase the authority of a grave History to intermingle matters of triviall consequence with matters of State such as are Triumphs and Ceremonies Shews and Pageants and the like And surely it could be wisht that this distinction would come into Custome In our Times Iournals are in use only in Navigations and Expeditions of warre Amongst the Ancients it was a point of Honour to Princes to have the Acts of their Court referr'd to Iournals Lib. Esth Cap. 6. Which we see was preserv'd in the raign of Ahasuerus King of Persia who when he could not take rest call'd for the Chronicles wherein hee reviewed the Treason of the Evnuches past in his owne time Plutarch Symp. 1. But in the Diaries of Alexander the Great such small Particularities were contained that if he chanc'd but to sleepe at the Table it was Registred For neither have Annals only compriz'd grave matters and Iournals only light but all were promiscuously cursorily taken in Diaries whether of greater or of lesser Importance CAP. X. A Second Partition of History Civile into Simple and Mixt. § Cosmographic a mixt History THE last Partition of Civile History may be this History Simple and Mixt. The Commune Mixtures are two the one from Civile Knowledge the other specially from Naturall For there is a kind of writing introduc'd by some to set down their Relations not continued according to the Series of the History but pickt out according to the choice of the Author which he after re-examines and ruminates upon and taking occasion from those selected pieces discourses of Civile Matters Which kind of Ruminated History we doe exceeding well allow of so such a Writer doe it indeed and professe himselfe so to doe But for a man resolvedly writeing a Just History every where to ingest Politique inter-laceings and so to break off the thread of the story is unseasonable and tedious For although every wise History be full and as it were impregnate with Politicall Precepts and Counsils yet the Writer himselfe should not be his own Mid-wife at the delivery § Cosmography likewise is a mixt-History for it hath from Naturall History the Regions themselves and their site and commodities from Ciuile History Habitations Regiments and Manners from the Mathematiques Climates and the Configurations of the Heavens under which the Coasts and Quarters of the World doe lye In which kind of History or Knowledge we have cause to Congratulate our Times for the world in this our age hath through-lights made in it after a wonderfull manner The Ancients certainly had knowledge of the Zones and of the Anti-podes Virg. Geor. 1. Nosque ubi Primus Equis Oriens afflavit anhelis Jllic sera Rubens accendit Lumina vesper and rather by Demonstrations than by Travels But for some small keele to emulate Heaven it selfe and to Circle the whole Globe of the Earth with a more oblique and winding Course than the Heavens doe this is the glory and prerogative of our Age. So that these Times may justly bear in their word not only Plus ultra whereas the Ancients used non ultra and also imitabile fulmen for the Ancients non imitabile fulmen Demens qui Nimbos non imitabile Fulmen Virg. Aen. 6 But likewise that which exceeds all admiration imitabile Coelum our voyages to whom it hath bin often granted to wheele and role about the whole compasse of the Earth after the manner of Heavenly Bodies And this excellent felicity in Nauticall Art and environing the world may plant also an expectation of farther PROFICIENCIES AND AUGMENTATIONS OF SCIENCES specially seeing it seems to be decreed by the divine Counsill that these two should be Coaevals for so the Prophet Daniel speaking of the latter times foretells Plurimi pertransibunt augebitur Scientia Cap. 12. as if the through Passage or Perlustration of the World and the various propagation of knowledge were appointed to be in the same Ages as we see it is already performed in great part seeing our times doe not much give place for Learning to the former two Periods or Returnes of Learning the one of the Graecians the other of the Romans and in some kinds farre exceed them CAP. XI I. The Partition of Ecclesiasticall History into the Generall History of the Church II. History of Prophesy III. History of Providence HIstory Ecclesiasticall falls under the same division commonly with Civile History for there are Ecclesiasticall Chronicles there are Lives of Fathers there are Relations of Synods and the like pertaining to the Church In proper expression this kind of History is divided into the History of the Church by a generall name History of Prophesy and History of Providence The first recordeth the times and different state of the Church Militant whether she flote as the Arke in the Deluge or sojourne as the Arke in the Wildernesse or be at rest as the Arke in the Temple that is the State of the Church in Persecution in Remove and in Peace In this Part I find no Deficience but rather more things abound therein than are wanting only this I could wish that the virtue and syncerity of the Narrations were answerable to the greatnesse of the Masse II The Second Part which is the History of Prophesie consisteth of two Relatives the Prophesy it selfe and the accomplishment thereof wherefore the designe of this worke ought to be that every Prophesy of Scripture be sorted with the truth of the event and that throughout all the ages of the world both for Confirmation of Faith as also to plant a Discipline skill in the Interpretation of Prophesies which are not yet accomplish't But in this work that latitude must be allowed which is proper and familiar unto Divine Prophesies that their accomplishments may be both perpetuall and punctual For they resemble the nature of their Auctor to whom one day is as a thousand yeares Psal 90 and a thousand yeares are but as one day And though the fulnesse and height of their complement be many times assigned to some certaine age or certaine point of time yet they have neverthelesse many staires and scales of Accomplishment throughout diverse Ages of the world This worke I set down as DEFICIENT ✿ but it is of that nature as must be handled with great wisdome sobriety and reverence or not at all III The third Part which is the History of Providence hath fallen indeed upon the Pens of many pious Writers but not without siding of Partiaries and it is imployed in the observation of that divine Correspondence which often interveneth betweene Gods revealed Will and his secret Will For though the

well suite with this embleme of Plato's Cave that men seek Sciences in their owne proper World and not in the greater World § But Idola Fori are most troublesome NOV OR LIB 1. Aph. LIX ad LXI which out of a tacite stipulation amongst men touching the imposition of words and names have insinuated themselves into the understanding Words commonly are imposed according to the capacity of the People and distinguish things by such differences as the Vulgar are capeable off and when a more prescisive conception and a more diligent observation would discerne and separate things better the noise of popular words confounds and interrupts them And that which is the remedy to this inconvenience namely Definitions in many points is not a remedy sufficient for the disease because the Definitions themselves consist of words and words beget words For although we presume that we are masters of our words Agell N. A. alicubi and expressions and it is soon said loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes and that words of Art which are of authority only with the Learn'd may seeme to give some satisfaction to this defect and that the Definitions whereof we have spoken premised and presupposed in Arts according to the wisdome of the Mathematicians may be of force to correct the depraved acceptations of words yet all this secures us not from the cheating slights and charms of words which many waies abuse us and offer violence to the understanding and after the manner of the Tartars Bow doe shoot back upon the judgment from whence they came Wherefore this disease must have a new kind of remedy and of more efficacy But we doe now touch these in passage briefly in the meane time reporting this Knowledge which we will call the Great Elenchs or the Doctrine of Jdolaes Native and adventuall of the mind of man to be DEFICIENT But we referre a just Treatise thereof to the Novum Organum ✿ DE ANALOGIA DEMONSTRATIONVM IV There remains one part of Judgment of great excellency which likewise we set downe as DEFICIENT For indeed Aristotle noteth the thing but no where pursueth the manner of acquiring it The Subject of this Canon is this The different kind of Demonstrations and Proofes to different kind of Matter and Subjects so that this Doctrine containeth the Indications of Indications Eth. Lib. 1. For Aristotle adviseth well That we may not require Demonstrations from Orators or Perswasions from Mathematicians so that if you mistake in the kind of Proofe the judicature cannot be upright and perfect And seeing there are foure kinds of Demonstrations either by immediate Consent and commune Notions or by Induction or by Syllogisme or by that which Aristotle calls Demonstration in or be or in Circle that is not from the more known notions but down right every of these Demonstrations hath certaine Subjects and matter of Sciences wherein respectively they have chiefest use other Subjects from which respectively they ought to be excluded For a rigor and curiosity in requiring too severe proofes in some things much more a facilitie and remission in resting satisfied in slighter Proofes are to be numbred amongst those prejudices which have bin the greatest Causes of detriment and impediment to Sciences Thus much concerning the Art of Iudging CAP. V. I The Partition of Art Retentive or of Memorie into the Knowledge of the Helpes of Memorie § and the Knowledge of the Memorie it selfe II. The Division of the Doctrine of Memorie into Prenotion § and Embleme I WE will divide the Art of Retaining or of Custodie into two Knowledges that is into the Knowledge of the Helps of Memorie and the Knowledge of the Memory it selfe Assistant to Memory is writing and it must by all means be noted that Memory of it selfe without this support would be too weake for prolixe and acurate matters wherein it could no way recover or recall it selfe but by Scripture And this subsidiary second is also of most speciall use in Inductive Philosophy and the Interpretation of Nature For a man may as well perfect and summe up the Computations of an Ephemerides by meere Memory as comprehend the Interpretation of Nature by meditations and the nude and native strength of Memory unlesse the same Memory be assisted by Tables and Indices provided for that Purpose But to let goe the Interpretation of Nature which is a new Knowledge there scarcely can be a thing more usefull even to ancient and popular Sciences than a solid and good Aide to Memory that is a substantiall and Learned Digest of Common places Neither am I ignorant that the referring of those things we read or learne into Common-Places is imputed by some as a Prejudice to Learning as causing a retardation of Reading and a slothfull relaxation to Memory But because it is a Counterfeit thing in Knowledge to be forward and pregnant unlesse you be withall deepe and full I hold that the diligence and paines in collecting Common-Places is of great use and certainty in studying as that which Subministers Copie to Invention and contracteth the sight of Iudgment to a strength But this is true that of the Methods and Syntagmes of Common-Places which we have seene there is none that is of any worth for that in their Titles they meerly represent the face rather of a Schoole than of the world exhibiting Vulgar and Pedanticall Divisions and not such as any way penetrate the Marrow and Pith of things § As for Memory it selfe that in my Iudgment hetherto hath bin loosely and weakly inquired into There is indeed an Art extant of it but we are certaine that there may be had both better Precepts for the confirming and increasing Memory than that Art comprehendeth and a better Practice of that Art may be set downe than that which is receiv'd Neither doe we doubt if any man have a mind to abuse this Art to ostentation but that many wonderfull and prodigious matters may be performed by it But for use as it is now managed it is a barren thing Yet this in the meane time we doe not taxe it withall that it doth supplant or surcharge Naturall Memory as commonly is objected but that it is not dexterously applied to lend assistance to Memory in businesse and serious occasions And we have learned this it may be from our practised Course in a civile calling that whatsoever makes ostentation of Art and gives no assurance of use we estime as nothing worth For to repeate on the sodaine a great number of names or words upon once hearing in the same order they were delivered or to powre forth a number of a verses upon any argument ex tempore or to taxe every thing that falls out in some satyricall simile or the turning of every thing to a jest or the eluding of every thing by a contradiction or cavill and the like whereof in the faculties of the mind there is a great store and such as by wit and