[149] [Chapter IV.]
[150] Here seems an allusion to an anti-utilitarian maxim of Bacon’s, which is very expressive of my Father’s turn of mind:—Et tamen quemadmodum luci magnam habemus gratiam, quod per eam vias inire, artes, exercere, legere, nos invicem dignoscere possimus, et nihilominus ipsa visio lucis res praestantior est et pulchrior, quam multiplex ejus usus; ita certe ipsa contemplatio rerum, prout sunt, sine superstitione aut impostura, errore aut confusione, in se ipsa magis digna est, quam universus inventorum fructus. Novum Organum, Part of Aph. CXXIX.
[151] From a volume containing The Search after Proserpine, Recollections of Greece and other Poems by Aubrey de Vere, author of The Fall of Rora.
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