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I.
MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so
much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of
nature: beyond’ this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
V. The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic,
the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist. and the magician, but by all (as
things now are) with slight endeavour and scanty2 success.
VIII. Moreover the works already known are due to5 chance and experiment
rather than to sciences; for‘ the sciences We now possess are merely systems for
the nice ordering and setting forth* of things already invented; not methods of
invention or directions for new works.
IX. The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this -that while we
falsely admire and extolé the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for
its tme helps.
XII. The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors
which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the
search after twth. So it does more harm’ than good.
XIII. The syllogism is not applied to the first principles of sciences, and is
applied in vain to intermediate aXioms“; being no match for the subtlety’ of
nature. It commands assent” therefore to the proposition, but does not take hold
of" the thing.
XIV. The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words,
words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the
root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily” abstracted from the facts, there
can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true
induction.
XV. There is no soundness” in our notions whether logical or physical.
Substance, Quality, Action, Passion, Essence itself, are not sound notions: much
less are Heavy, Light, Dense, Rare, Moist“, Dry, Generation, Corruption, Attraction,
Repulsion, Element, Matter, Form, and the like; but all are fantastical and ill defined.
XVIII, The discoveries which have hitherto” been made in the sciences are such
as lie close to vulgar notions, scarcely beneath the surface. In order to penetrate
into the inner and further recesses of nature, it is necessary that both notions and
axioms be derived from things by a more sure and guarded way; and that a method
of intellectual operation be introduced altogether better and more certain.