[32]. Historical and Critical Essays, vol. ii. The reader who wishes to form an estimate of the sordid views of the utilitarian school, had better peruse the whole of Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon.
[33]. Essays, vol. ii. p. 386–403.
[34]. Filum Labyrinthi.
[35]. New Atlantis.
[36]. Lucretius. Rerum Natura. Bacon would seem to have had this passage again in his mind, when he described Plato as “a man of a sublime genius, who took a view of everything as from a high rock.”—De Augmentis, sec. 5.
[37]. Essay on Truth.
[38]. Filum Labyrinthi, Part 1.
[39]. Earthly and heavenly are not here used in the New Testament sense, for sinful and holy, but in the Old Testament sense; earthly, for things pertaining to the body formed of the dust of the ground, and heavenly, for things pertaining to the mind, the breath of God.
[40]. Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon, vol. ii., p. 426.
[41]. i. e. Post Christum.