te_.]
[Footnote 15: "Wealth acquired without fraud."]
[Footnote 16: "O how many go down with this hope to endless labors and
wars."]
[Footnote 17: Transient.]
[Footnote 18: Opponents.]
[Footnote 19: "Everything which is to come lies in uncertainty."]
[Footnote 20: "Who follow their commander with groans."]
[Footnote 21: "It takes great genius to call back the mind from the
senses."]
[Footnote 22: "Against him who denies the principles."]
[Footnote 23: "Specific virtue, or power."]
[Footnote 24: "The Roman Church."]
[Footnote 25: "I shall light a lamp of understanding in thine
heart."--IV. Esdras xiv. 25.]
[Footnote 26: Followers.]
[Footnote 27: "Prepared and sworn to protect with unconquered minds
the opinions of the philosophers whom they follow."]
[Footnote 28: "Out of nothing."]
[Footnote 29: "Out of pre-existing matter."]
[Footnote 30: "Because comprehension is between limits, which are
opposed to infinity."]
[Footnote 31: "God exhibits all things in one existence"]
[Footnote 32: "The essence of all things, visible and invisible, is
divinity itself"]
[Footnote 33: "Causally."]
[Footnote 34: "Not as form, but as universal cause"]
[Footnote 35: "It [i.e., the infinite] has no beginning, but itself is
perceived to be the beginning of all things, and to embrace and govern
all things."]
[Footnote 36: "Primal matter."]
[Footnote 37: "Which destroys all proportion."]
[Footnote 38: "The spiritual world."]
[Footnote 39: "Providence, leader and head; Fate, in the middle and
proceeding from Providence; Nature, last."]
[Footnote 40: "The science of things first, eternal, perpetual."]
[Footnote 41: "Part of the divine spirit immersed in the human body."]
[Footnote 42: "With delicate pipe."]
[Footnote 43: Moderation]
[Footnote 44: "To me one man stood for the people."]
[Footnote 45: "I [have done] this not for many, but for thee."]
[Footnote 46: "One is enough, none is enough."]
[Footnote 47: "We approve the same things, we blame the same
things--this is the result in every case in which the verdict is
rendered according to the majority."]
[Footnote 48: "Who glory in malice"]
PROOEMIUM, EPISTLE DEDICATORY, PREFACE, AND PLAN OF THE INSTAURATIO
MAGNA, ETC.
BY FRANCIS BACON[A]
FRANCIS OF VERULAM REASONED THUS WITH HIMSELF,
AND JUDGED IT TO BE FOR THE INTEREST OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE
GENERATIONS THAT THEY SHOULD BE MADE ACQUAINTED WITH H
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