TIIE

WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BACON,

BARON OF VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS, AND

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND,

Collected and edited

BY

JAMES SPEDDING, M. A.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE:

AND

DOUGLAS DENON HEATH,
BARRISTER-AT-LAW; LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRID

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.
Cambridge: Riverside Press.

1872.

B

1153
1870
10

CONTENTS

OF

THE TENTH VOLUME.

TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.

PART I. — CONTINUED.

WORKS PUBLISHED, OR DESIGNED FOR PUBLICATION, AS

PARTS OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA.

PAGE

NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY- CONTINUED.

HISTORY OF LIFE AND DEATH

7

177

267

HISTORY OF DENSE AND RARE .

INQUIRY RESPECTING THE MAGNET

TOPICS OF INQUIRY RESPECTING LIGHT AND LUMI-

NOUS MATTER

273

PART II.

WORKS CONNECTED WITH THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA, BUT

NOT MEANT TO BE INCLUDED IN IT.

ThoughtS ON THE NATURE OF Things

285

ON THE EBB AND Flow OF THE SEA

317

ON PRINCIPLES AND Origins, ACCORDING TO THE FA-

BLES OF CUPID AND CLUM .

341