Atticus, his advice to Cicero, iii.
349.

Authorities, not adduced by Bacon,
why, ii. 154.

Authors in sciences, credit due to,
iii. 128.

Axioms, a reflection of Aristotle's
categories, i. 100.

Aristotle's two rules of, iii. 53,
58.

at present unsound, ii. 70, 71.
for transformation of bodies of
two kinds, ii. 171-177.

Bacon, Francis, editions of his works,
i. pp. v.-vii.

arrangement of his writings, i.

pp. vii., viii., xii., xvii., xviii.
division of editorship, i. pp. ix.,

xii.

242.

knowledge respecting the, iii.
237, 241-253.

the tabernacle of the mind, iii.
254.

its good of four kinds, health,
beauty, strength, pleasure, iii.

241.
Boldness in attempting, iii. 37.
Books, considerations concerning the
reading of, iii. 303

and studies, their influence on
manners, iii. 340.

precepts of caution and direc-

tion concerning, Ib.
Bouillet, M., his edition of "Euvres
Philosophiques," i. 179.
Brightness, to produce, iii. 60.

Cæsar, Augustus, his euthanasia, iii.

249.

Cæsar, Julius, an example of learn-
ing combined with military excel-
lence, iii. 99, 154.

Cæsar continued.

his book of Apophthegms, iii
159.

his Commentaries, iii 158.
his De Analogiâ, iii. 159.
his Anti-Cato, iii. 159.
computation of the year
formed by him, 16.
his remarkable speeches, iii.
160.

Cain, an image of the active state,
iii. 138.

Calendar of doubts, iii. 233.

of inventions, iii. 230.
of things supposed impossible or
not invented, iii. 231.

of popular errors, iii. 233.
of sects of philosophy, iii. 234.
Campanella, de sensu rerum, i. 106,
107.

Campbell, Lord, on Bacon's faint-
ing-fits, i. 56.

Cataract, operation for, ii. 293.
Categories of Aristotle, reflected in
the second part of Bacon's Sum-
mary Philosophy, i. 100.

Cato the elder, his counsel respect-
ing Carneades, iii. 98.

how punished for his blasphemy
against learning, iii. 105.
Cause, the formal, iii. 58.

four kinds of, material, formal,
efficient, and final, ii. 168.
formal cause. See Form.
Caution, a means of covering de-
fects, iii. 374.

Cave, idols of the, ii. 77, 84-86.
Celestial hierarchy, degrees of the,
iii. 137.

Celsus on medical discoveries; par-
ticulars found out first, causes af-
ter, iii. 48; ix. 65.
Ceremonial law, moral philosophy
contained in the, iii. 139.
magic, iii. 257.

Certainty of direction, what, iii. 53.
whether attainable at all by
men, ii. 60.

progressive stages of, proposed,
lb.

two modes of attaining, ii. 71.
Chaldæan astrology, an example of
experimental divination, iii. 255.
Chambers of health in New Atlantis,
ii. 400.

Chance, inventions often to be re
ferred to, iii. 262.

Character, best judged of at home,
iii. 367.

characters and tempers of men's
dispositions, iii. 332.
Characters real, used in China and
the Levant to express things and
notions, iii. 283.

Chariot of the Fathers of Salomon's
house in the New Atlantis, ii.
396.

China gold, iii. 59.

Chinese bury their porcelain clay,
ii. 335.

Chocolate, whether meat or drink, ii.
403.

Christianity, advantage of, towards
the furtherance of true knowledge,
iii. 75.

Church government, iii. 411.

the preserver of all heathen
learning, iii. 423.

Cicero, his complaint of the school
of Socrates, iii. 43.

a warning to the irresolute, iii.
102.

Ciphers, many kinds, and utility of,
iii. 287.

Circle learning, iii. 43.

Civet, divisibility of the perfume, iii.
56.

Civil history, three kinds of, iii. 188.
See History.

Civil knowledge, iii. 347.

difficulty of, iii. 348.

three divisions of, vi. 348.
Civil law excelled by the laws of
England in fitness for the govern-
ment of England, iii. 391.
Clock, experiment with, to determine
the attraction of the earth sug-
gested, ii. 260, 261.
Clockmaking, ii. 118.
Cloisters incline wits to fables and
unprofitable study, iii. 76.
Cogitata et Visa, date of, i. 141-148.
Cold, artificial means of untried, ii.
335.

bodies possessing the power
without the sensation of cold,
ii. 335, 336.

we must substitute condensa-
tions, iii. 337.
Colours, Democritus's theory of, iii.
56.

have little correspondence with
the natures and proprieties of
things, iii. 57.
Columbus, ii. 129.

Compression, effects of. ii. 235, 332.
Conceptions, theory of the formation
of, i. 88.

Concrete substances, their study a
subordinate part of science, i. 76.
Condensation of water, ii. 333.
Cone, qualities of the figure, ii. 341.
Contidence, advantage of, in conceal-
ing defects, iii. 374.
Configurations of bodies at rest, ii.
167.

Consent is the adaptation of forms
and configurations to one an-
other, ii. 342.

consents and aversions, opera-
tions by, lb.

between primary bodies and
their subordinates, ii. 343.

of the senses with their objects,
ii. 344.

consents and mutual aversions
of plants, ii. 345.
chemical, Ib.

between the moon and terres-
trial things, 1b.

by simple apposition, ii. 345,
346.

Conservative Good, iii 321.
Contemplation of things as they are,
more worthy than all fruit of in-
ventions, ii. 163.

Contemplative and active life, iii.
314.

distinction between, Ib.
Contentious learning, a distemper of
learning, iii. 124.

Continuance the almoner of nature,
ii. 340.

Controversy prejudicial to learning,

iii. 288.

Conversation, a part of civil knowl-
edge, ii. 348.

Copernicus, his theory corrected by
natural philosophy, iii. 44.
Corn, friendship between poppy and,
ii. 344, 345.

Corporeal nature and natural action,
ii. 269.

Cosmetic, iii. 241, 252.
Cosmography, iii. 197.

illustrations of, in the book of
Job, iii. 140.

words, iii. 364.

the gate of the mind, iii. 365.
Creation, parts of the, assigned to
the three persons of the God-
head, iii. 409.

power and wisdom of God dis-
played in the work of, iii.
136.

Credulity and imposture, concur-
rence between, iii. 125.
Critics, errors of, iii. 303.

knowledge of, iii. 303-305.
Cupid, fable shows the importance
attached by Bacon to the method
of exclusions, i. 80. See Love.
Cupping glasses, ii. 332.
Curse on man, in two points not to
be removed, iii. 35.
Custom and habit, influence of, on
the mind, iii. 338.

precepts relating to, iii. 339,
340.

Death, fear of, mitigated by learn-
ing, ii. 164.

Deceit, the foulest disease of learn-
ing, iii. 125.

Dedications of books not to be com-
mended, iii. 115.

Deduction, when admissible in Ba-
con's system, i. 63.

Deeds more trustworthy than words,
iii. 364.

Defects, importance of concealing,
int. 373.

Deficient parts of learning, how pro-
posed to be treated, ii. 39.
De Interpretatione Naturæ Proemi-
um, design of, i. 179.
Democratie, the state of knowledge
is one, iii. 42.

Democritus, his theory of physics
deeper but less popular than
those of Aristotle or Plato, iii.
42.

why it gave place to them, 16.
his theory of colours borrowed
by Epicurus, iii. 56.

his school went furthest into na-
ture, ii. 83, 85.

his atomic theory not adopted

by Bacon, i. 95.
Demonstrations, vicious, the strong-
holds of idols, ii. 99.

consist of four parts, each faulty,
16.

distributions of them deficient,
iii. 280.

are of four kinds, iii. 280.
Demosthenes, answer of, to Es-
chines, iii. 104.

his counsels to the Athenians,
iii. 112.

a water-drinker, iii. 345.
Desiccation, the cause of, ii. 312.
Diagoras, his saying respecting of
ferings to Neptune, iii. 277.
Diet and regimen, effects of, on the
mind, iii. 239.
Differentia vera, i. 74.
Direction, certainty and liberty of,
what, iii. 53.

freeing the direction, in the in-
stance of whiteness, iii. 54.
three cautions relating to, iii.
60. See Freeing a direction.
Discovery, art of, may advance as
discoveries advance, ii. 164.
discoveries, which could not

have been preconceived,
give new hope, ii. 140, 143.
of ordnance, ii. 141.
of silk, Ib.

of the magnet, ii. 142.
of printing, ii. 143.
of mind by body and body
by mind, a branch of hu-
man philosophy, iii. 237.
Diseases, cures of, iii. 249.
anatomy useful in discovering
the causes of, iii. 247.
many pronounced

incurable
through ignorance, iii. 248.
Dissimulation, impolicy of, iii. 378.
Pompey, an example of, iii.
379.

Distempers of learning, iii. 117,
129.

Divination, two kinds of, iii. 255.
Chaldæan astrology, an exam-
ple of the experimental kind,
iii. 255.
Diving-bell, ii. 330, 331.
Divinity, two principal parts of, viz.
1. the matter revealed; 2. the na-
ture of the revelation, iii. 399.

Divinity continued.

of

methodical interpretation
Scripture dangerous to, iii.
403.

perfection unattainable in, iii.
402.

the best form of writing on, iii.
407.

four branches ei, iii. 409.
matter of, not deficient, iii. 411.
distribution of divine learning,
iii. 182, 183.

divine testimony to the dignity
of knowledge, iii. 136-144.
Domitian, dream of, iii. 147.
Doubts, two sorts of, iii. 232.
1. Particular, b.
2. Total, Ib.

excellent use of a registry of,
iii. 233.

Dreams, exposition of, iii. 237.
Dripping-tree in the Canaries, ii.
338

Dubline, more like a perfect ruby
than a spinel, iii. 59.
Duty, iii. 323.

analogy between virtue and, Ib.
common and special, iii. 324.
doubtful cases of, iii. 328.
of a king, iii. 325.

relating to professions, iii. 326.
relative, iii. 328.
comparative, Ib.

Earth, rotation of the, an arbitrary
supposition, ii. 299.
Ecclesiastical history, iii. 183, 199.

division of, iii. 199.
Education of youth, not a mean em-
ployment, iii. 108, 109.

a matter of small honour, iii.
109.

games of recreation, part of,
iii. 253.

revived by the Jesuits, iii. 109.
collegiate, for boys and young
men preferable to private, iii.

307.
Egg, experiment with glass egg, i.
294, 295, 334.

Elements, the four, fiction of, ii. 94.
Elenches, doctrine of, iii. 274 et
seq.

excellently handled by Aristotle
and Plato, iii. 274.
deficiency in, iii. 280.
example of an Elenche, iii. 301.
three kinds of, iii. 274. note.

Empirics, why often more successful
than physicians, iii. 250.
England, history of, great deficiency
in, iii. 192.

should be united with that of
Scotland, iii. 192.

Enigmatical method, iii. 290.
Envy, is proud weakness, iii. 30,
424.

Epaminondas Thebanus, iii. 99.
Epictetus, philosophy of, concerning
felicity, iii. 316.

Epicurus thought the gods were of
human shape, iii. 61.
Epitaph of Bacon, i. 38.
Epitomes, corruptions of history, iii.
189, 294.

Errors of schools of philosophy, ii.
90-94.

of the sophistical, ii. 91.
of the empirical, ii. 92.

of the superstitious, ii. 93.
apotheosis of error, nothing so
mischievous, ii. 94.

constitution of the individual
mind influences the judgment,
ii. 84, 85.

of past scientific inquirers, ii.
130-139.

Essex, Bacon's connection with, i.

40.

Ethics, the affections the principal
subject of, iii. 336.
Eucatalepsia, ii. 158.

Evil, knowledge of, necessary to the
protection of virtue, iii. 327.
Exclusion or rejection of natures,
table of, ii. 207-209.
method of, i. 79-81.
Exclusiva must be at first imperfect,

i. 83.