Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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95To the Reader. and not plain things VVonders; and that experience like-
99[Handwritten note 9]1010[Handwritten note 10] wiſe muſt be broken and grinded, and not whole, or as it
groweth
;
and for Uſe, his Lordſhip hath often in his
Mouth
, the two kindes of Experiments, Experi-
menta
Fructifera, and Experimenta Lucifera.
Experiments of Uſe, and Experiments of
Light
:
And he reporteth himſelf, whether he were not
a
ſtrange Man, that ſhould think, that Light hath no Uſe,
becauſe
it hath no Matter.
Further his Lordſhip thought
good
alſo, to add unto many of the Experiments them-
99[Handwritten note 9]1010[Handwritten note 10] ſelves, ſome gloſs of the Cauſes, that in the ſucceeding
work
of Interpreting Nature, and Framing Axi-
oms
, all things may be in more readineß.
And for the
Cauſes
herein by him aßigned;
his Lordſhip perſwadeth
himſelf
, they are far more certain, than thoſe that are ren-
dred
by others;
not for any excellency of his own wit, (as
his
Lordſhip is wont to ſay) but in reſpect of his continual
1111[Handwritten note 11]1212[Handwritten note 12]1313[Handwritten note 13] converſation with Nature and Experience.
He did
conſider
likewiſe, That by this Addition of Cauſes,
Mens
mindes (which make ſo much haſte to finde out the
cauſes
of things;)
would not think themſelves utterly loſt
in
a vaſt Wood of Experience, but ſtay upon theſe
Cauſes
(ſuch as they are) a little, till true Axioms
1111[Handwritten note 11]1212[Handwritten note 12]1313[Handwritten note 13] may be more fully diſcovered.
I have heard his Lordſhip
ſay
alſo, That one great reaſon, why he would not put theſe
Particulars
into any exact Method, (though he, that look-
eth
attentively into them, ſhall finde, that they have a ſe-
cret
order) was, Becauſe he conceived that other men would
1111[Handwritten note 11]1212[Handwritten note 12]1313[Handwritten note 13] now think that they could do the like;
and ſo go on with a
further
Collection, which, if the Method had been exact,
many
would have deſpaired to attain by Imitation.
As
for
his Lordſhips love of Order, I can refer any Man to
his
Lordſhips Latin Book, De Augmentis Scien-
tiarum
;
which, if my judgment be any thing, is written

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