The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Founded Upon Their History
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together for the prosecution of science quoted Bac6n as their leader, and exulted in the progress made hj tlie phi* losophy which proceeded upon his principles* Thus in Oldenburg^s Dedication of the Transactions of the Bojat Society of London for 1670, to Robert Bojle, he sajs ; ^^ I am informed by silch as weU remember the best and worst days of the famous Lord Bacon, that though he wrote his AdcancemeiU of Learning and his Imtamratio Mayna in the time of his greatest power, yet his greatest r...eputation rebounded first from the most intelligent foreigners in many parts of Christendom:" and afler speaking of his practical talents and his public employ^ ments, he adds, '^ much more justly still may we wonder how, without any great skill in Chemistry, without much pretence to the Mathematics or Mechanics, without optio aids or other engines of late inyention, he should so much transcend the philosophani then liying, in judicious and clear instructions, in so many useful observations and discoveries, I think I may say beyond the records of many ages." And in the end of the Preface to the same volume, he speaks with great exultation of the advance of science all over Europe, referring undoubtedly to facts then familiar.
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