Note 228 — Note xxiii. § 128.
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The whole passage is deserving of attention, and it seems as if the prophetic spirit of Bacon had addressed it to the cosmologists of the present day. "Pessima enim res errorem apotheosis, et pro peste intellectús habenda est, si vanis accedat veneratio. Huic autan vanitati nonnulli ex modernis summâ levitate ita indulserunt, ut, in primo capitolo Geneseos, et aliis Scripturis Sacris, philosophiam naturalem fundari conati sunt: Inter viva quærentes mortua.—"Nov. Organum, lib. i. aphor. 65