d in some degree
his notion of form itself, it comes from Aristotle. See _An. Post._ 71 b
33; _Topic_, 141 b 5; _Eth. Nic._ 1095 a 30. It should be observed that
many writers maintain that the phrase should be _notiora natura_; others,
_notiora naturae_. See Fowler's _N. O._ p. 199 note.

[64] _N. O._ ii. 17.

[65] _Ibid._ i. 51.

[66] _Ibid._ i. 75.

[67] _Ibid._ ii. 2.

[68] _Valerius Terminus_, iii. 228-229.

[69] Cf. _N. O._ ii. 27. Bacon nowhere enters upon the questions of how
such a science is to be constructed, and how it can be expected to possess
an independent method while it remains the mere receptacle for the
generalizations of the several sciences, and consequently has a content
which varies with their progress. His whole conception of _Prima
Philosophia_ should be compared with such a modern work as the _First
Principles_ of Herbert Spencer.

[70] It is to be noticed that this scale of nature corresponds with the
scale of ascending axioms.

[71] Cf. also for motions, _N. O._ ii. 48.

[72] The knowledge of final causes does not lead to works, and the
consideration of them must be rigidly excluded from physics. Yet there is
no opposition between the physical and final causes; in ultimate resort the
mind is compelled to think the universe as the work of reason, to refer
facts to God and Providence. The idea of final cause is also fruitful in
sciences which have to do with human action. (Cf. _De Aug._ iii. cc. 4, 5;
_Nov. Org._ i. 48, ii. 2.)

[73] _De Aug._ iii. 4. In the _Advancement (Works_, iii. 355) it is
distinctly said that they are not to be inquired into. One can hardly see
how the Baconian method could have applied to concrete substances.

[74] Thus the last step in the theoretical analysis gives the first means
for the practical operation. Cf. Aristotle, _Eth. Nic._ iii. 3. 12, [Greek:
to eschaton en tei analusei proton einai en tei genesei]. Cf. also _Nov.
Org._ i. 103.

[75] _Cogitationes_ (_Works_, iii. 187).

[76] _N. O._ ii. 10.

[77] Pref. to _Instaur._ Cf. _Valerius Term._ (_Works_, iii. 224), and
_N. O._ i. 68, 124.

[78] Pref. to _Inst._

[79] Bacon's summary is valuable. "In the whole of the process which leads
from the senses and objects to axioms and conclusions, the demonstrations
which we use are deceptive and incompetent. The process consists of four
parts, and has as many faults. In the first place, the impressions of the
sense itself are faulty, for the sense