Advancement of Learning Author:Francis Bacon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention. V. i. The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above... more », and some springing from be- neath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation. The light of nature con- sisteth in the notions of the mind and the reports of the senses: foras foreknowledge which man receiveth by .cumulative and not original; as in a water that besides his own spring-helidis fed Wltn'otEer'springs ajidstreagis! SotEen, according to these two differing illuminations or originals, knowledge is first of all divided 1 i into divinityand philosoj)hvl / 2. In philosophy tEe contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to nature, or are reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which several sopEy, natura philosophy, and human philosophy or , natura philosophy, and human ity! For all things are marked and inquiries there do arise three knowledges, divine philo- philosoph humanity For all things are marked and stamped wit this triple character, of the power of God, the difference of nature, and the use of man. But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hathadiEJensioji ,and quantity of entireness and con- tinuancjeuJbsfore. .it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name off philosophia primcf primitive or summary philosophy, as tne'tnain a mon way, before we come where the ways part and divide themselves ; which science wheth...« less