cim_ is evidently a first sketch of
part of the _Novum Organum_, and in phraseology is almost identical with
it. (8) A few smaller pieces, such as the _Inquisitio de Motu_, the _Calor
et Frigus_, the _Historia Soni et Auditus_ and the _Phaenomena Universi_,
are early specimens of his _Natural History_, and exhibit the first
tentative applications of the new method.

(B) The second group consists of treatises on subjects connected with the
_Instauratio_, but not forming part of it. The most interesting, and in
many respects the most remarkable, is the philosophic romance, the _New
Atlantis_, a description of an ideal state in which the principles of the
new philosophy are carried out by political machinery and under state
guidance, and where many of the results contemplated by Bacon are in
imagination attained. The work was to have been completed by the addition
of a second part, treating of the laws of a model commonwealth, which was
never written. Another important tract is the _De Principiis atque
Originibus secundum Fabulas Cupidinis et Caeli_, where, under the disguise
of two old mythological stories, he (in the manner of the _Sapientia
Veterum_) finds the deepest truths [v.03 p.0145] concealed. The tract is
unusually interesting, for in it he discusses at some length the limits of
science, the origin of things and the nature of primitive matter, giving at
the same time full notices of Democritus among the ancient philosophers and
of Telesio among the modern. Deserving of attention are also the
_Cogitationes de Natura Rerum_, probably written early, perhaps in 1605,
and the treatise on the theory of the tides, _De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris_,
written probably about 1616.

(C) The philosophical works which form part of the _Instauratio_ must of
course be classed according to the positions which they respectively hold
in that scheme of the sciences.

The great work, the reorganization of the sciences, and the restoration of
man to that command over nature which he had lost by the fall, consisted in
its final form of six divisions.

I. _Partitiones Scientiarum_, a survey of the sciences, either such as then
existed or such as required to be constructed afresh--in fact, an inventory
of all the possessions of the human mind. The famous classification[47] on
which this survey proceeds is based upon an analysis of the faculties and
objects of human knowledge. This division is represented by the _De
Augmentis Scientiarum_.