Note 122 — Chapter III · THESES.
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He might have been warned from such by “οὐ γεωμετρικαῖς ἀλλ’ ἐρωτικαῖς ἀνάγκαις” (Plato, Republic, v. 458). But Bacon had applied the same figure still more widely: “Custom goes in arithmetical, Nature in geometrical progression” (Advancement of L., VI. iii. 259).