Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            and not plain things VVonders; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s49" xml:space="preserve">and that experience like-
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            wiſe muſt be broken and grinded, and not whole, or as it
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            groweth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s50" xml:space="preserve">and for Uſe, his Lordſhip hath often in his
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            Mouth, the two kindes of Experiments, Experi-
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            menta Fructifera, and Experimenta Lucifera.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">Experiments of Uſe, and Experiments of
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            Light: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">And he reporteth himſelf, whether he were not
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            a ſtrange Man, that ſhould think, that Light hath no Uſe,
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            becauſe it hath no Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">Further his Lordſhip thought
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            good alſo, to add unto many of the Experiments them-
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            ſelves, ſome gloſs of the Cauſes, that in the ſucceeding
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            work of Interpreting Nature, and Framing Axi-
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            oms, all things may be in more readineß. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">And for the
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            Cauſes herein by him aßigned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">his Lordſhip perſwadeth
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            himſelf, they are far more certain, than thoſe that are ren-
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            dred by others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">not for any excellency of his own wit, (as
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            his Lordſhip is wont to ſay) but in reſpect of his continual
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            converſation with Nature and Experience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">He did
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            conſider likewiſe, That by this Addition of Cauſes,
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            Mens mindes (which make ſo much haſte to finde out the
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            cauſes of things;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">would not think themſelves utterly loſt
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            in a vaſt Wood of Experience, but ſtay upon theſe
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            Cauſes (ſuch as they are) a little, till true Axioms
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            may be more fully diſcovered. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s59" xml:space="preserve">I have heard his Lordſhip
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            ſay alſo, That one great reaſon, why he would not put theſe
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            Particulars into any exact Method, (though he, that look-
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            eth attentively into them, ſhall finde, that they have a ſe-
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            cret order) was, Becauſe he conceived that other men would
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            now think that they could do the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s60" xml:space="preserve">and ſo go on with a
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            further Collection, which, if the Method had been exact,
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            many would have deſpaired to attain by Imitation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">As
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            for his Lordſhips love of Order, I can refer any Man to
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            his Lordſhips Latin Book, De Augmentis Scien-
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            tiarum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">which, if my judgment be any thing, is written </s>
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