one to make themselves conceived, and the other to prove and demonstrate; so that it is of _necessity with them to have recourse to similitudes_ AND TRANSLATIONS _to express themselves_. And, therefore, in the _infancy of learning_, and in rude times, when those conceptions which are now trivial, were then new, _the world was full of parables and similitudes_, for else would men either have passed over _without mark, or else_ REJECTED FOR PARADOXES, that which was offered _before they had understood or judged_. So in divine learning, we see how frequent parables and tropes are, for it _is a rule in the doctrine of delivery, that every science_ which is _not consonant with presuppositions and prejudices_, must pray in aid of _similes_ and _allusions_.' The true master of the art of teaching will vary his method too, he tells us according to the _subject_ which he handles,--and the reader should note particularly the illustration of this position, the instance of this general necessity, which the author selects for the sake of pointing his meaning here, for it is here--precisely here--that we begin to touch the heart of that new method which the new science itself prescribed,--'the true teacher will vary his method according to the subject which he handles,' for there is a great difference in the delivery of _mathematics_, which are the most abstracted of sciences, and POLICY, which is the _most immersed_, and the opinion that 'uniformity of method, in multiformity of matter, is necessary,' has proved very hurtful to learning, for it tends to reduce learning to certain _empty_ and _barren_--note it,--_barren_-- 'generalities;'--(so important is the method as _that_; that it makes the difference between the fruitful and the barren, between the old and the new) 'being but the very _husks_ and _shells_ of sciences, all the _kernel_ being forced out and expressed with the torture and press of the method; and, _therefore_, as I did allow well of _particular topics_ for invention'--_therefore_--his science requires him to go into particulars, and as the necessary consequence of that, it requires freedom--_'therefore'_--as I did allow well of particular _topics of invention, 'so_ do I allow likewise of _particular methods of tradition_.' Elsewhere,--in his Novum Organum--he quotes the scientific outlines and divisions of this very book, he quotes the very draught and outline of the new human science, which is the principal thing in it, and tells us plainly that he is perfectly aware that those new divisions, those essential differences, those true and radical forms in nature, which he has introduced here, in his doctrine of _human_ nature, will have no practical effect at all, as they are exhibited _here_; because they _are_ exhibited in this method which he is here criticising, that is, in empty and barren abstractions,-- because it was impossible for him to produce here anything but the