New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-14

the former method was universal IN the ancient
world That statement is excessive. Plain men, in
their business, anticipated the Baconian method
thousands of years ago the jury in "Millar agt.
Taylor followed it. The Greek sculptors antci-
pated it, and their hands reached truth, while the
greater but instructed minds of the philosophers
their contemporaries, roaming after their Will
O-thewisp,
% And found no end in wandering mazes lost"
There was the pity of it; those who by learning.
leisure and ability were most able to instruct man
kind were enticed by bad example and the
arrogance of the intellect into priOri reasoning,
and diverted from doclle observations and so they
fell into system that kept the out and the door
siut
The other system, in two hundred and fifty years,
has enlightened that world which lay in darkness.
To test the systems, take any period of 400 years
before Lord Bacon, and estimate the progress OF the
wOrd in knowledge and useful discoveries. Then
take the $50 years after Lord Bacon vary the
fEures ont of justice TO allow for increased pOpula
ton.
Lord Bacon was the savior OF the human intellect.
He discouraged plausible conjecture. PRIOR
reasoning. and Taught humble close observation.
Thereby he the key OF the Heavens to Newton.
and the key of Nature and her forces to the phy,i
cal investigator and the prying mechanic. Man
began 10 cultivate the humble bu wise. faculty of
ou>tTNdllou NJ grew ny cultivation anu taught MN
no" 10 Wrcstt With Nature FOR her secrets, and eX-
tort them There Is scarcely branch of useful
learning that method has not improved 800 per cent
OF course, even since Lord Bacon. Prejudice ha-, in
holes and corners, resisted observation but the
hnaI result L. SIRE 4 J.tO'i reasoning bicd people
to death with the lancet for tyvo crutur,rs after
Bacon hut Bacon has conquered the lancet. \
handtul of IehuIts viii tell You thai the historical
query whether one l. shop of Rome has 'oniraGictcd
another in faith. must not De- learned from cotem-
po1Iy history, but evolved BY internal thought
Thousand YEAR, aiterwG,d. Well that medieval
crOichet will ~. and Bacon Stay
And - II must be. sooner or,ater. With everything
| Copyright ai commou ldt-thc national oXp"'li.ucy
of lirory-fhe miallbii'y n men with mitcr~-
er'ryI,HL The world has tasted bacon. II viii
never cat cobW,b- again for long.
MEN OF COOP OBSERVATION.
T. put the matter in another forn--uch Of our
common ancestors. Brother Jonathan. A. invented
phrases. ver, nearly always acute Observers. They
called prodizal "a >peudtui,.7 having observed
how eijen that character dia;pated the savings Of
another man. \ quarrel with almost divine sa .a"-
itv they called NOT ga dieicrtr' which q BRAIN
les word. au1,Ajcr 'op'Dg ard they called mail
man man ovf ~ his acDs, Fly not oIt Of his rea-
son, Well. they had Obferroi. Tie mailman, vino
I'D not DIS at their throat. but ga~c them time 10
study him. did nothing bur reason a.l day and not
io.icaily, but. bla.c' br some prcco.ccr.i i'ea,
could hot hear nor observe. Intelligent mac-
n.eu have busy minds. aud often argue speciously,
but start from some i:t-ei'od contradict q
by their ,ensc-. The much ata rd ~ens-s ~. The
gleat .,s If VISION. and o. thr Huutc these gates
af- always more or I'~s CLOSE n.io>-c~'"n. No"
event. distant by -pa."'r ln. ,n lot be- seen nor
hraiJ hy Us. bdt hr persons present. " here the,
cei t-rcr.c ~ W, .'.. fl. -f.-,. Of t~ cNc-Hlt-
| u.->.. have. rol,u: ...I -l. Uurl ~ ord Bacon
rr~t have recour-, - These .d rppnr; II those
Pei SOILS. h,o th., c,iJe-e- bee peers. aud even
.aiuI"e~ 10. 10 pr cat and ZEE 800 sonnet ue~
f.T ..,..a Ltld witness uiNr- IA dD,f.loH D. bias
TIE 81 aud value %. truth eAjri'.r l"m .4'-