25
Eccles. xii. 11.
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This is what the author so frequently inculcates in the Novum Organum, viz: that knowledge and power are reciprocal; so that to improve in knowledge is to improve in the power of commanding nature, by introducing new arts, and producing works and effects.
27
“Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento: Hæ tibi erunt artes.” Æneid, vi. 851.
28
“Sive recens tellus, seductaque nuper ab alta Æthere, cognati retinebat semina cœli.”—Metam. i. 80.