...die, and go out. CENTURY IX. Experiments in consort touching perception in bodiet insensible, lending to natural divination or subtile trials. IT is certain,...though they have no sense, yet they have perception : foi* when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable,...

...apparent transformations, which different substances undergo in their sensible qualities.* Bacon says, that " all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception." As the ultimate elements of all living bodies are of the same kind as those most energetic in inanimate...

...which different substances undergo in their sensible qualities." * " It is certain," says Lord Bacon, " that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense,...of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and exclude or expel that which is ingrate ; and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception...

...Experimrnt* in consort touching perception in bodiet insensible, tending to natural divination or tublile trials. IT is certain, that all bodies whatsoever,...agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate ; •nd whether the body be alterant, or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation ; for else...

...instinctive sense and sense the result of ratiocination, is fully set forth in his "Sylva-Sylvarum." " It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception." ("Century" IX., preface). "The insects have voluntary motion and therefore imagination." ("Syl.-Syl."...

...recur to the passage from Francis Bacon's Natural History f already quoted in the previous lecture: "It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception: . . . and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for else...

...recur to the passage from Francis Bacon's Natural History, already quoted in the previous lecture : 'It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : . . . and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for...

...the notion that physical entities must be able to "feel" one another: "It is certain," says Bacon, "that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense,...perception; for when one body is applied to another . . . Whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception preceedeth operation; for else...

...crosses the boundary; action at a distance. Whitehead finds his paradigm in a text from Francis Bacon: "It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception. . . . And this perception is sometimes at a distance, as well as upon the touch; as when the loadstone...

...(between 1620 and 1626) he advances a theory of elective affinities not unlike the one of alchemy. "It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though...is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate."16 Bacon's call for unlimited control over nature rested on the assumption that nature possessed...