...is done and he has begun to be his own master, let him (if he wilD use his own judgment. APHORISMS. produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ;...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. rr. Towards the effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies....

...greater produce. Human knowledge and human power, according to Bacon's celebrated aphorism, meet in one. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in contemplation is as a cause, becomes in operation as a rule. We know that when events have happened in a certain sequence...

...guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestioas for the understanding or cautions. "Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the efl'cct cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in contemplation...

...it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. in. Human knowledge and human power meet in one ; for...be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed 2 ; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. IV. Towards the effecting...

...it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. 1n Human knowledge and human power meet in one ; for...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. * From The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, edited by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding,...

...the NOVUM ORGANUM (1620), where on the first page we have the passage 1 which Spedding translates : " Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. " Towards the effecting of works all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies....

...and selfdenying study of it. The kingdom of man, the "New Atlantis," * is to be founded on knowledge. "Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for...contemplation is as the cause, is in operation as the rule." Observe nature in order that you may use nature, thus converting it into the habitation, instrument,...

...it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. in. Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. IT. Towards the effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies....

...where a cause is not known, and effect cannot be produced. To command nature, one must always obey her; all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies. Anything else is done by nature and her intrinsic work. It would be an unsound fancy'and a self-contradiction...

...distinguished from the false not by its being a clear idea, but by its being able to work. He said : " That which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule." 3 " What in operation is most useful, that in knowledge is most true."* Thus Bacon's method is to start...