ay probably have been intended to be included under this head.
This supposition receives some support from the manner in which the fifth
part is spoken of in the _Novum Organum_, i. 116.

VI. The new philosophy, which is the work of future ages, and the result of
the new method.

Bacon's grand motive in his attempt to found the sciences anew was the
intense conviction that the knowledge man possessed was of little service
to him. "The knowledge whereof the world is now possessed, especially that
of nature, extendeth not to magnitude and certainty of works."[49] Man's
sovereignty over nature, which is founded on knowledge alone, had been
lost, and instead of the free relation between things and the human mind,
there was nothing but vain notions and blind experiments. To restore the
original commerce between man and nature, and to recover the _imperium
hominis_, is the grand object of all science. The want of success which had
hitherto attended efforts in the same direction had been due to many
causes, but chiefly to the want of appreciation of the nature of philosophy
and its real aim. Philosophy is not the science of things divine and human;
it is not the search after truth. "I find that even those that have sought
knowledge for itself, and not for benefit or ostentation, or any practical
enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to
themselves a wrong mark, namely, satisfaction (which men call Truth) and
not operation."[50] "Is there any such happiness as for a man's mind to be
raised above the confusion of things, where he may have the prospect of the
order of nature and error of man? But is this a view of delight only and
not of discovery? of contentment and not of benefit? Shall he not as well
discern the riches of nature's warehouse as the beauty of her shop? Is
truth ever barren? Shall he not be able thereby to produce worthy effects,
and to endow the life of man with infinite commodities?"[51] Philosophy is
altogether practical; it is of little matter to the fortunes of humanity
what abstract notions one may entertain concerning the nature and the
principles of things.[52] This truth, however, has never yet been
recognized;[53] it has not yet been seen that the true aim of all science
is "to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works,"[54]
or "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of
man."[55] Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this bein