It will readily be expected that in the modern progress of knowledge, the Aristotelian province of logic would be enlarged. The far-seeing intellect of Lord Verulam heralded the innovation--'Our glorious Bacon led philosophy forth from the jargon of schools and the fopperies of sects. He made her to be--the handmaid of nature, friendly to her creatures, and faithful to her laws.'*** * W. J. Fox, Mon. Rep., p. 45: 1835. ** The reader will find that logician is need in the sense of skilfulness in eliciting and exhibiting reality. By that which I call logical is meant that which is truthful. I presume that is the sense to which this high word should be confined. It is the lax application of this term to mere dexterity in evading the truth according to rule, that has so increased the unsatisfactory race of professed sceptics. --See Scepticism, chap. XII. *** Langhornea' Preface to the Lives of Plutarch. The general object of Lord Bacon's philosophy, writes Bruce, an Edinburgh professor of logic of the last century, is to connect the reasoning powers of man with experiments for the improvement of natural knowledge. To create a just taste for philosophical investigation, required-- 1. A display of the true, that they may be distinguished from the false subjects of inquiry. 2. Scientific rules to direct the discovery of the laws of nature. But to 'display the true,' is to display the _facts_ on which the truth rests. The 'discovery of the laws of nature' implies _observation_ of the operations of nature. The philosophy of Bacon, says Macaulay, began in observation and ended in arts.