Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 11: Containing, Scala Intellectus; The History of Life and Death; And a Critique on the More Ancient PhilosophersYet we promise ourselves no great influence upon the belief of infill; because our method agrees with none of those that have gone before us; but pnoooeds quite contrary thereto. For they who before us, being sick of the doctrine of the ancients, applied to sense and experience, as to a thing almost entirely new have, generally, at first made some enquiries with vigour and re! Solution, under the conduct. Of the senses; and seized upon those things which seemed to them of a more general nature: and from such de tached parcels of experiments they immediately proceeded to form theories; and thus philoso-u phizad by starts, with narrow views; and judged of all things by a few.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.