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Claudius, 871

Clearchus, 866

Clement VII, Pope, 869

Cleon, 128, 535, 780

Clergy, Machiavelli on, 49
Clocks, 282

Experiment with, 346

Clodius, 866

Cloisters, influence of, on mental habit, 205, 209

"Coal Bags," the, 696, note; 698

Coelum, fable of, 639 sq., 647 sq., 836 sq.

Cogitata et Visa, date and contents of, 206, 216, 220

Coke, on the Star Chamber, 618, note

Stories of, 875, 888

Cold 312, 315, 318

Transmission of, 360

Telesius on, 350, note; 657 sq., 661 sq.

Proposed investigation of, 380, 508 sq.

Peripatetic view of, 508

Colleges (=Collections of data) greater and lesser,

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Collins, Dr. S., on Bacon, 10

Colonies, planting of, 776 sq.
Colour, nature of, 327 sq.
(=dissimulation), 160, 600
Colours, Democritus on, 197
Variations of, 379

Colours of Good and Evil, 537 sq.

Columbus, 287, 293, note; 732

Comines, De, quoted, 768

Comets, 311, 336, 341, 688, 692 sq., 805

Commonwealths, effect of, on mental habits, 205

Commonplaces, digest of, needed, 519

Compassion, 586

Composition, in Nature, 197, 207, 277-8, 679

Conciliation, 589

Conclaves, papal, 143, 573

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Cousin, 299, note

Cowley, quoted, 36

Crafts, to be studied, 252

Cranfield, Sir Lionel, 866, 896

; Crassus, story of, 877

Creation, the ancient theories of, 61, 174, 736
Credulity, evil of, 56-7, 289, 489

Cretans, the, 143-4, 573

Critics and criticism, 130-1, 558-9

Croesus, 162, 608, 771, 876, 879
Crown and Commons, 622, note
Cruelty, 586

Antitheta as to, 550
Crystals, theory of, 367
Cudworth, cited, 640

Cunning, essay on, 762

Cupid, fables of, 20, 442, 446, 639 sq., 647 sq., 824.

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Dante, cited, 66, note

Referred to, 346, note

Daphne, myth of, 817

Concrete bodies, in Bacon's system, 16, 200, 305, D'Argentré, quoted, 622

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Darwin, on instinct of bees, 502, note

Daunus, 834

David, military laws of, 77, 423

Davy, on heat, 322, note

Death, to be made easy by physicians, 106, 487
Antitheta as to, 548

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219, 221, 232

Deity, incapable of virtue and vice, 147, 177
Delambre, criticised, 672, note

Delay, antitheta as to, 556

Delays, essay on, 762

Deluges, effect of, 804
Demades, 873

Demetrius, stories of, 877

Democritus, Bacon's esteem for, 26, 34, 96, 191
642, 646, 843

Bacon not a follower of, 27, 376, note
Quoted, 92, 458, 886

On atoms, 97, 271, 351, 509, 648, 649 and note,
683, 837, 840

Referred to, 126, 197, 267, 269, 271, 342, 376, 682
Disparaged, 366, 682

Praised, 471-2, 648, 650

Materialism of, 532, note

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Demonstration, modes of, 120, 225, 249, 274, 518
False, 516

Demosthenes, quoted, 48, 51, 84, 133, 156, 161,
549, 601, 603, 748, 874, 881

Prefaces of, 116, 512

Referred to, 148, 297, 535, 541

Dendamis, 168, 632

Density and rarity, 354, 668

De Principiis atque Originibus, 647 sq.

Ellis's preface to, 639 sq.

De Sapientia Veterum, 825 sq.

Spedding's preface to, 815 sq.

Author's dedication and preface to, 821 sq.

Descartes, 27, 265, note; 267, note; 643

Descriptio Globi Intellectualis, 677 sq.

Ellis's preface to, 670 sq.

Date and purpose of, 670

Original plan of, 255, 415

Desiccation, 353
Desire, 450 sq.

Despair. See Diffidence

De Thou, quoted, 616, note

Deucalion, fable of, 844

Devonshire, Earl of, on Bacon, 9

Diagoras, quoted, 119, 265, note; 517

Referred to, 755

Dialectic, divine, 169

Dialogue of a Holy War, Bacon's, referred to, 413

Diamond and magnet, 407

Diascordium, 107, 487

Dichotomy, 225, 530

Diet, superstitions concerning, 102, 481, 490

Reform of, 490 sq.

Diffidence, harm done by, in science, 203, 210, 244,

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Duty, public, 139, 564

Domestic, 140, 571

Dutch, the, 753

Ear, the, 333

Earth, myths of the, 807, 826

Exploration of the, 276, 282

Motions of, 305

Telesius' theory of, 658

Interior of, 691

Floating of, 696

Rotation of, rejected by Bacon, 364, 375, 461,

675, 705, 709

Earthquakes, 691, 804

Ecclesiastical history, 79, 80, 86, 431, 438

Echo, fable of, 442, 447, 824

Ecphantus, 683, and note

Education, defects and reforms of, 76, 77-9, 205,

210, 286, 422-4, 559 sq., 783

Edward II, 867

Egg, the cosmogonic, myth of, 647
Eggs, hatched by heat of fire, 341
Egyptians and Solon, 62

Idols of, 112

Opinion of, on Greeks, 276

Inventors, deified by, 277

Elections, in astrology, 465
Electricity, Gilbert on, 32

Elements, doctrine of the, 119, 269, 272
Defined, 404

Elenches, doctrine of, 117 sq., 515 sq.

Samples of, 129

Elephant, the, 335

Elizabeth, Queen, and Bacon, vii, ix, 1-3
Learning of, 49

Character of, 67, 75, 84, 421, 762

Stories of, 865, 869, 872, 885, 889, 893
Ellenborough, Lord, anecdote of, 628, nole

Ellis, R. E., general preface by, 13 sq.
On Bacon's system, 22

On the Novum Organum, 212 sq.

Illness of, 212, note

On force and matter, 304, note; 305-6, note

On Bacon's investigation of Heat, 322, note;
326-7, note

On the De Pincipiis, 6,9 sq.

On the, Discriptio Globi Intellectualis, 670 sq.

Eloquence, undue concern for, 54

Masters of 127, 535

Seneca on, 133

Cicero on, 192, 535
Emblems, use of, 121
In memory, 519-20
Empedocles, 271, 663

On the moon, 697, 850
Empire, antitheta as to, 547
Arts of, 606 sq., 770 sq.
Vicissitudes of, 806
Essay on, 757

Empirical school, 270
Faculty, 851

Endowments, need of, for arts of nature, 77

Endymion, 447, 817 sq., 833 sq.

England, history of, 83, 434

And France, 608, 771

Ennius, quoted, 336, 425
Enoch, 135, 565

Envy, antitheta as to, 549
Essay on, 744
Epaminondas, 46, 882

Epictetus, quoted, 72, 158, 541, 597, 884
Censured, 136, 565
Epicurus, death of, 106, 487

Anthropomorphism of, 119, 199, 517

On virtue, 135
Disparaged, 443-4
Praised, 446

On fate, 444

On the popular gods, 446

On the atom, 840

Epicureans, the, 135, 137, 565, 568, 571, 683, 880

"On the Stoic theory, 542

Epimetheus, 753, 848, 851

Epitomes, corruptions of history, 433
Equality in States, 751

Equilibrium, theory of, 477, note

Equinoxes, precession of the, not known to Bacon

373, note; 705-6.

Equity, aphorisms on, 613 sq.

Erasmus, quoted, 54, 507, note; 585, 590

Erichthonius, fable of, 843

Erigena. See Scotus

Error, modes of, 194

Apotheosis of, 272

Causes of, 278 sq.

Eros, fable of, 639 sq.

Eruptions, 311, 691

Esdras, second book of, cited, 281, nole

Essays, Bacon's, 736 sq.

Spedding's preface to, 733

Essex, Earl of, Bacon's connection with, vii

Stories of, 865, 889

Essences, 455

Eternity of matter, 666, 695, 837

Ethelwald, Bishop, 873

Ether, proposed investigation of, 404

Phenomena of, 688

Ethics, 134 sq., 144 sq., 455

Divisions of, 499

Aristotle's, 139, 144 sq.

Eucatalepsia, 299

Excises, 608

Origin of, 608, note

Euclid, propositions of, 58

No addition to work of, 476, 852

Eunuchs, 789

Euripides, quoted, 876

Exclusion, method of, in Bacon's system, 20, 321

sq., 641

Not obeyed by him, 345, note

Exhalations, Aristotle's theory of, 701

Exercise, medical value of, 485

Existences, Bacon's conception of, 18

Expansion, motion of, 348, 354, 364

Of colours, scents, etc., 358-9

Expectation, in rhetoric, 193, 335
Expense, essay on, 770

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Food, of flame, air, etc., 358

Force, fundamental nature of, 304, note; 305-6,
note. See Matter and Atomic theory

Forms, use of term by Bacon, 16 sq., 25, 198, 302,
303, 305, 315, 328, 443, 469, note

Doctrine of, extraneous to his philosophy, 23
Repudiated by him, 267

Discussion of, 94-5, 272, 277, 302 sq., 307, 320
sq., 328, 336, 469, 497-8, 650
Investigation of, how to conduct, 307, sq.
Lesser, 331-2

The only means of anticipating chance, 337

Formulæ, 130

Fortitude, antitheta as to, 550

Fortune, burdens laid by, 155

Mind to be adjusted to, 161

Essay on, 784

Architecture of, 162, 164, 594, 602
Child of the vulgar, 443

Democritean doctrine of, 472

Antitheta as to, 548

Fossils, 382

Fountains, medicinal, 107

Warm, 312

Fowler, Prof., cited, 261, note; 270, note; 272,

notes; 275, note; 299, note

Fracastorius, invention by, 341

Referred to, 101, 348

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Galileo, continued.

And Grassi, 645

Discoveries of, 670, 674, 689, 698, 702, 709
Astronomy of, 672, 685, note

Quoted, 517, note

Galla, J. C. La, quoted, 352, note
Gallus, 156

Games, 108, 169, 633
Gardens, botanic, 77
Essay on, 791

Gardiner, Bishop, 865

Garlic, and the magnet, 407

Gaston de Foix, 787

Gassendi, 643, 684, note
Gauls, the, 806
Gay-Lussac, 329, note

Gems, Bacon's theory of, 333
Generation, 447

And corruption, theories of, 273, 660
Process to be analysed, 302
'Equivocal," 357, 456

Telesius on, 658

Genesis, vanity of attempts to found science o

272

Gentlemen, in a state, 608

Geometry, progress in, 476, note

Georgics of the mind, 134 sq., 563-77
Germanicus, 156, 595

Germination, heat in, 308, note

Process of, 356

Gerard, Balthazar, 479

Gestures, language of, 121

Giants, the, sin of, 166

Signification of, in fable, 807, 836

Gilbert, W., Bacon's attitude to, 32, 268, nole
Referred to, 59, 101, 268, 271, 275, 342, 346, 347
371, 444, 469, 497, note; 665, 708

His theory of magnetism, 342, note; 444, nole
On the peripatetic definition of heat, 368
On abuse of rhetoric, 428

Astronomy of, 673, 683, 685, 686, 687, 696, 697
On a vacuum, 687, 704

Disparaged by Bacon, 268, note; 271, 275, 66
697

Praised, 699, 708

Globe, of matter and of form, 155

Our, how seen by God, 166

Of the intellectual world, 175, 282, 677 sq.

God, Bacon's view of, 33

Attributes of, 61, 91, 174, 186, 320

Man's duty to, 165

Nature of works of, 174

Not to be known from nature, 186, 456

Power of, known through nature, 209, 456

Only self-like, 187

Knows forms, 320

And nature, 209, 564

Beginning of Science, 287

Incapable of virtue or vice, 147, 577

Goeppert, cited, 308, note

Gold, nature of, 16

Fable of buried, 59
Attributes of, 304
Experiments with, 508

Gondomar, stories of, 890, 894, 898
Gonsalvo, 136, 566, 804, 876, 879
Good, analysis of, 134 sq., 562 sq.

Passive and active, 136 sq.
Quaternion of, 209, 482

Simple and comparative, 563 sq.

Private and common, 564

Individual, two aspects of, 566 sq.

Goodness, essay on, 749

Gorgons, the, 448 sq., 832

Government, the science and arts of, 150, 154, 16

sq., 287 sq., 606 sq.

See Civil Knowledge.
Grace, divine, 499

Grææ, the, 450, 832-3

Grafting, too little tried, 505

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Referred to, 473

Herodicus, 136, 566

Herschel, quoted, 400

Hexameters, 123, note; 525, and note

Hiero and Pythagoras, 135, 565

Hieroglyphics, 122, 522, and note
Hipparchus, new star of, 692
Observations of, 701

Hippias, 81, 274, 429
Hippocrates, quoted, 141, 572
Commended, 105

Referred to, 480, 485

Historia Densi et Rari, Bacon's, cited, 376, note
Historia Naturalis, Bacon's scheme of, 36, 295
History, divisions of, 79, 82, 427 sq., 677, 678
Natural, 79, 80, 427, 430, 678

Is basis of natural philosophy,95, 289, 307, 402
Bacon's scheme of, 36, 295, 402
See Natural Philosophy

Civil, 79, 81-2, 83, 431, 432, 437
Three species of, 431 sq.
Modern, 83

Ecclesiastical, 79, 80
Divisions of, 86, 431, 438
Universal, 436

Literary, 79, 431

Perfect, three kinds of, 433 sq.
Of times, two kinds of, 435 sq.
Mechanical, 81, 403, 428 sq., 678
Primary, 402

Method of, 403 sq.
Of England, 83, 434
Of Scotland, 83, 434
Ruminated, 85

Appendices to, 86, 439
Feigned, 85-6

Medicinal, 105, 485

Catalogue of proposed series, 409 sq

Of Henry VII, Bacon's, 415

Hitcham, Sir Robert, 891

Hobbes, 613, note

Holland, commerce of, 753

Taxes in, 771

Weather cycles in, 805

Homer, source of livelihood to many, 73
Duration of, 73

Quoted, 478, 779

Homœomera, doctrine of, 443, 643
Honey-dew, 381

Honour and Reputation, essay on, 801

Honour, power of, in war, 163, 602
Honours, antitheta as to, 547

Hooke, Dr., expositor of Bacon, 15
Hope, in science, 287, 291

Hopkins and Joule, experiments of, 356

Horace, quoted 474, 531, 542, 596, 605
Horns of Pan, 444
Hortensius, 787

Hothouses, 340

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