[71] See my chapter on “The Northumberland Manuscript.” Post p. 187.
[72] Not quite “always”—there were some exceptions. [Ed.]
[73] This Essay was written by Mr. Smithson in the year 1912.
[74] See XXVI Prometheus, sive status hominis. [Ed.]
[75] It is a pity that Mr. Smithson has not given us the reference to this delightfully comic, but highly characteristic utterance. [Ed.]
[76] Bacon’s Works, edited by Spedding, vi, 486.
[77] First published in 1627, a year after Bacon’s death.
[78] This work seems to have been first published in 1612.
[79] Additamentum, an addition, or accession to.
[80] At contra, illud animis hominum penitus insidere debuerats artificialia a naturalibus, non forma aut essentia, sed efficiente solummodo differre; homini quippe in naturam nullius rei potestatem esse, præterquam motus, ut scilicet corpora naturalia aut admoveat, aut amoveat.... Itaque natura omnia regit: subordinantur autem illa tria; cursu, naturæ; exspatiatio naturæ; et ars, sive additus rebus homo.