An Account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon Scientiarum (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon ScientiarumLord bacon was the first who taught the proper method of studying the sciences: that is, he pointed out the way in which we should begin and carry on our pursuit of knowledge, in order to arrive at truth. He gave a set of rules by which mankind might deliver themselves from slavery to names, and from wandering among fanciful systems, and return once more, as little children, to the school of nature. The task he chose was far more useful to the world, and honourable to himself, than that of being, like Plato or Aristotle, the author of a new sect: he undertook to expose the errors of those who had gone before him, and to shew the best way of avoiding them for the future he had the principal share in pulling down the old build, ing of a false philosophy, and, with the skill of a superior architect, he laid the foundation, and sketched the plan of another fabric, and gave masterly directions to those who should come after him - how, upon the ruins Of the first, the temple of science must be erected anew. As, in a great army, there are some Whose Office it is to con struct bridges, to cut paths along mountains, and to remove various impediments, so Lord Bacon may be said to have cleared the way to knowledge, to have marked out the road to truth, and to have left ¿jture travellers little else to do than fbllow his instructions: he was the miner and sapper of philosophy, the pioneer of nature, and he eminently promoted the dominion of man over the materialworld. He was the priest of nature's mysteries, and he taught men in what manner they might discover her profoundest secrets, and interpret those laws which nature has received from the great Author of all.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.