Instances, continued. Of the road or rule, or of range or limitation, 359 Of quantity, or doses of nature, 365 Polychrest, or of general use, 377 sq. Instauration, the Great, Prooemium to, 241 Scheme of, 43, note; 212, 294 Why published by parts, 402 Instruments, physical and mental, 256-7, 259, 267 Inventors, deification of, 64, 189, 277, 300 Honoured in the Scriptures, 209 Inventory of man's estate, called for, 99, 183, 194 Iron, heat in, 318, 325, 329, 509 Bulk of, under heat, 322 Effects of heat on, 324, 329 sq. And magnet, 564 Irregulars, collection of, called for, 428 Isabella of Spain, quoted, 873 Italians, character of, 156 Italy, politics of, 758, 798 Ivy, symbolism of, 452 Ixion, fable of, 98, 474 James I, kindness of, to Bacon, ix. Passages addressed to, 42, 75, 80, 84, 139, 140, 175, 176, 242, 421, 428, 434, 569, 606, 630 Quoted, 77, 102, 140, 424, 480, 529, note On witchcraft, 175 Spedding on, 414, 721, note James, St., quoted, 158, 424 Jason, the Thessalian, 71, 571, 875 Jesting, antitheta as to, 554 Jesuits, 50, 762 Services of, 63, 209 As educators, 132, note; 559, 560 Jews, and Christians, 724 Job, book of, quoted, 45, 62, 187, 685 Natural philosophy in, 187, 209 Vanity of attempts to found science on, 272 Joculary arts, 108 Jodelle, 525, note Jonson, Ben, account of Bacon by, 8, note Joule, experiments of, 322, note; 356, note; 367, note Journals, 85, 436 Judges, 589, 590, 802 Judgment, arts of, 117, 514 sq. Place of, in logic, 124 Law, words of, antitheses as to, 557 Bases of, 613 sq. Proper characters of, 614 sq. Science and practice of, 626 sq. Antiquities of, to be studied, 627 Extra-judicial consultations in, 628 Laws, not written of by statesmen, 166 Of heaven and earth, 168 General view of, 613 sq. Certainty of, how to secure, 614, 630 Modes of expounding, 625 Lawyers, limitations of, 47 Talk in bonds, 612 Treatment of law by, 166 Do not push their fortunes, 603 Leagues, political, 798 Learned men, poorly provided for, 76, 422 In law, answers of, 627 Learning, disparagement of, by politiques, 46 Flourished with arms, 46 Idle objections to, 48 In princes and rulers, 64 sq. Effect of, on manners, 71 Effect of,on mental troubles, 72 Dominion of over men, 73 Need for a history of, 80, 431 And wisdom, 150 Compared to a hawk, 155 New birth of, 167 Promoted by Protestantism, 209 By the Jesuits, 209 Shipwreck of, on fall of Roman Empire, 278 Three revolutions of, 279, 630 Antitheta as to, 552 See Knowledge Lectures, legal, 629 Lecturers, in colleges, 76, 423 Legislators, advice to, 166 Leibnitz, quoted, 27, 29, note; 31, 266, note; 304, note; 351, note; 472, note Referred to, 335, note; 360, note; 362, note; And the atomic theory, 642 On perception and apperception, 497, note His monadism and Bacon's, 642-3 On Bacon and Descartes, 643 Leicester, Earl of, 889 Leo of Phliuns, 565, note Lepanto, battle of, 611, 773 Lepidus, 592 Lesbian rule, a, 624 Leucippus, school of, 269, 271, 376, 687 Levant, monarchism in, 52 Use of real characters in, 121 Lever, Bacon unaware of theory of the, 531, note Levity, supposed motion of, 512 sq. Liebig, quoted, 372, note Lies, the love of, 736 Life, Prolongation of, 489 Health of, and length of, 490 Antitheta as to, 348 Light and colour, 197 Transmission of, 360, 363 Not properly inquired into, 497 See Whiteness Light (Theory), need for experiments of, 245, Light, human understanding not a dry, 267 Like and unlike. See Similarity and Diversity Differentiation of, 334 Lime, heat of, 313-4 Mixed, 477 Matter, theory of, in Bacon's system, 17 Indestructibility of, 354, 667, 837, 840 Ancient theories of, 443, 446 Passions of, 462 Appetites of, 466 Primary, 647 sq., 833 Telesius on, 657 sq. Sum of, eternal, 666 Matthew, Sir Tobie, on Bacon, 9, note Bacon's friendship for, 39, 735 Measures, in verse, 123 Mechanical arts, slight progress of, 207, 259 Said to be progressing, 243 Wealth of, 282 Mechanics, 473 Medicine, art of, 103 sq., 482 sq., 483 sq. Deficiencies of, 105, 107 Experimental, 107 Effects of, on nature, 172 Megalotti, quoted, 362 Melanchthon, on the soul, 496, note Melloni, cited, 309, note Memnon, fable of, 838 sq. Memory, 120, 518 sq. Little enquired of, 121, 519 Helps to, 518 sq. Menander, quoted, 149, 577 Menenius Agrippa, 441 Mercury, fable of, 825 The planet, motions of, 684, note; 689 On light and heat, 311, note Metals, heat in, 314, 317 Resemblances and diversities in, 383 Supposed generation of, 384 Metaphors, uses of, 69 Metaphysics, Bacon's conception of, 19, 93, 95 sq., 307, 458 sq., 469 sq. Metellus, 70 Meteors, 311 Proposed history of, 404, 430 Motion, continued. Heat, a mode of, 322, 323 sq. Apparent and real, problem of, not understood Of projectiles, 347 Nineteen modes of, 366 sq., 466 sq. Essential to matter, 651, 667 Mountains, high, free of snow on top, 309 Music and medicine, 104, 483 And painting, 108, note Of the spheres, 445, note And ethics, 455 For masques, 782 Mustapha, 758 Mutianus, his treatment of Antonius, 156 Mysteries of theology, 204, 209, 456 The more incredible, the more honour in believ- Explanation of, by reason, 632 sq. Of nature, 209, 456 Mythology, Bacon's attitude to, 441, note; 815 sq., 402, 403 Must be connected with the sciences, 280 And God, 32-3, 209, 320, 456 And art, 34, 207, 259, 380, 427, 678, 841 Threefold aspect of, 80, 402, 427, 678-9 To be imitated in business, 163 Interpretation of, 115, 189, 249, 258, 262, 264 Study of, not restrained by true religion, 204, 2 Rational (=sophistical) school, 270-1 In the schools, 496, note Use of, in religion, 169, 170, 632 sq. Little used for invention, 502 Religion not grounded on, 631, 632 Redemption, 174 Reflection, of sun's rays, 310, 347 Refrigeration, 510 See Congelation Regiomontanus, 780 Reid, Col., his theory of storms, 399 Religion, and reason, 169, 499 And knowledge, 186, 204 Blind zeal in, a hindrance to science, 208, 20 210, 272, 285-6 Mode of appeal to the mind, 499 Depends on revelation, 169, 631, 632 Essay on unity in, 738 Effects of difference in, 835 See Divinity, Theology, and Mysteries Religions, vicissitudes of, 805 Remoras, effect of, 96, 471 Reporters, legal, 625 Reputation, antitheses as to, 548 Resemblances, 334 Respiration, on mountain tops, 310 Responsa prudentum, in law, 627-8, note Revelation, 453 Alone can give knowledge of the rational sou |