name which he aspired to, and for which he was willing to renounce his own, 'Benefactor of men,' and not of an age or nation. But let us see where this new science, and scientific art of human culture begins,--this science and art which is to differ from those which have preceded it, as the other Baconian arts and sciences which began in the new doctrine of nature, differed from those which preceded them. 'FIRST, therefore, in this, _as in all things which are practical_, we ought to cast up our account, WHAT is IN OUR POWER, AND WHAT NOT? FOR the one may be dealt with by way of ALTERATION, but the other by way of APPLICATION _only_. The husbandman cannot command either the _nature of the earth or the seasons_ of the weather, no more can the physician _the constitution of the patient_, and the _variety of accidents._ So in the CULTURE and CURE of THE MIND of MAN _two things_ are without our command, POINTS OF NATURE, and POINTS of FORTUNE: for to the basis of the one, and the conditions of the other, our work is limited and tied.' That is the first step: that is where the NEW begins. There is no science or art till that step is taken. '_In these things_, therefore, it is left unto us to proceed by APPLICATION. Vincenda est omnis fortuna ferendo: and so likewise--Vincenda est omnis natura ferendo. But when we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a _dull neglected suffering_, but of _a wise and industrious suffering_, which draweth and contriveth _use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary_, which is that properly which we call _accommodating_ or _applying_. ["Sweet are the uses of it," and "blest" indeed are they who can translate the _stubbornness_ of fortune into so quiet and so sweet a style.] 'Now the wisdom of APPLICATION resteth _principally_ in the _exact and distinct knowledge of the precedent state or disposition, unto which we do apply_.'--[This is the process which the Novum Organum sets forth with so much care], 'for we cannot fit a garment, except we first take the measure of the body.'