BOOK THE FIFTH.

CHAP. I.

Division of the doctrine concerning the use and objects of the Faculties of the Human Soul into Logic and Ethics. Division of Logic into the arts of Discovering, of Judging, of Retaining, and of Transmitting.

CHAP. II.

Division of the Art of Discovering into discovery of Arts and discovery of Arguments: and that the former of these (which is the most important) is wanting. Division of the art of discovery of Arts into Learned Experience and the New Organon. Description of Learned Experience.

CHAP. III.

Division of the art of discovery of Arguments into the Promptuary, and Topics. Division of Topics into General and Particular. Example of a Particular Topic, in an inquiry concerning Heavy and Light.

CHAP. IV.

Division of the art of Judging into judgment by Induction and judgment by Syllogism. The first whereof is referred to the New Organon. First division of Judgment by Syllogism into Reduction Direct and Reduction Inverse. Second division of the same into Analytic, and doctrine concerning Detection of Fallacies. Division of the doctrine concerning the detection of fallacies into detection of sophistical fallacies, fallacies of interpretation, and fallacies of false appearances or Idols. Division of Idols into Idols of the Tribe, Idols of the Cave, and Idols of the Market-place. Appendix to the Art of Judging; viz. concerning the Analogy of Demonstrations according to the nature of the subject.

CHAP. V.

Division of the Art of Retaining into the doctrine concerning the Helps of Memory and the doctrine concerning Memory itself. Division of the doctrine concerning Memory itself into Prenotion and Emblem.

BOOK THE SIXTH.

CHAP. I.

Division of the art of Transmitting into the doctrine concerning the Organ of Discourse, the doctrine concerning the Method of Discourse, and the doctrine concerning the Illustration of Discourse. Division of the doctrine concerning the organ of discourse into the doctrine concerning the Notations of Things, concerning Speech, and concerning Writing. Whereof the two first constitute Grammar and are divisions of it. Division of the doctrine concerning the notations of things into Hieroglyphics, and Real Characters. Second division of Grammar into Literary and Philosophic. Reference of Poesy in respect of metre to the doctrine concerning Speech. Reference of the doctrine concerning ciphers to the doctrine concerning Writing.

CHAP. II.

The doctrine concerning the Method of Discourse is made a substantive and principal part of the art of transmitting; and is named Wisdom of Transmission. Different kinds of method are enumerated, with a note of their advantages and disadvantages.

CHAP. III.

Of the foundations and office of the doctrine concerning Illustration of Discourse, or Rhetoric. Three appendices of Rhetoric, which relate only to the Promptuary; Colours of Good and Evil, both simple and comparative; Antitheses of things; Lesser Forms of Speeches.

CHAP. IV.

Two general appendices of the Art of Transmission; Critical and Pedagogical.

BOOK THE SEVENTH.

CHAP. I.

Division of Moral Knowledge into the Exemplar or Platform of Good, and the Georgics or Culture of the Mind. Division of the Platform of Good into Simple and Comparative Good. Division of Simple Good into Individual Good, and Good of Communion.

CHAP. II.

Division of Individual or Self-Good into Active and Passive

Good. Division of Passive Good into Conservative and Perfective Good. Division of the Good of Communion into General and Respective Duties.

CHAP. III.

Division of the doctrine concerning the Culture of the Mind into the doctrine concerning the Characters of Minds, the Affections, and the Remedies or Cures. Appendix of this same doctrine, touching the Congruity between the Good of the Mind and the Good of the Body.

BOOK THE EIGHTH.

CHAP. I.

Division of Civil Knowledge into the doctrine concerning Conversation, Negotiation, and Empire or State Government.

CHAP. II.

Division of the doctrine concerning Negotiation into the doctrine concerning Scattered Occasions and the doctrine concerning Advancement in Life. Example of the doctrine. concerning Scattered Occasions from some of the Proverbs of Solomon. Precepts concerning Advancement in Life.

CHAP. III.

The divisions of the doctrine concerning Empire or Government are omitted ;—An Introduction only is made to two Deficients; namely, the doctrine concerning the Extension of the Bounds of Empire, and the doctrine concerning Universal Justice, or the Fountains of Law.

BOOK THE NINTH.

CHAP. I.

The divisions of Inspired Divinity are omitted; - Introduction only is made to three Deficients; namely, the doctrine concerning the Legitimate Use of the Human Reason in Divine Subjects; the doctrine concerning the Degrees of Unity in the Kingdom of God; and the Emanations of the Scriptures.

OF

THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING.

BOOK II.

TO THE KING.

It might seem to have more convenience, excellent King, though it come often otherwise to pass, that those who are fruitful in their generations, and have as it were the foresight of immortality in their descendants, should likewise be more careful than other men of the good estate of future times, to which they know they must transmit these their dearest pledges. Queen Elizabeth, rather a sojourner in the world than an inhabitant, in respect of her unmarried life, was an ornament to her own times and prospered them in many ways. But to your Majesty (whom God in His goodness has already blessed with so much royal issue, worthy to continue and represent you for ever, and whose youthful and fruitful bed still promises more) it is proper and convenient not only to shed a lustre (as you do) on your own age, but also to extend your care to those things which all memory may preserve and which are in their nature eternal. Amongst which (if affection for learning transport me not) there is not any more noble or more worthy than the further endowment of the world with sound and fruitful knowledge. For how long shall we let a few received authors stand up like Hercules' columns, beyond which there shall be no sailing or discovery in science, when we have so bright and benign a star as your Majesty to conduct and prosper us?

For the first book (which relates to the Dignity of Learning), see Vol. III. p. 261. The Latin differs so little from the English in that book, that a translation would be little else than a reprint. And the eight remaining books of the De Augmentis Scientiarum, considered as a treatise on the Divisions of the Sciences, are complete in themselves. -J. S.