...disliked magicians 'who explain everything by Sympathies and Antipathies', he could also write that 'when one body is applied to another, there is a kind...alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation.'42 to the proposed (but never completed) Historia sympatktae et antipathiaererum, in W0ntf,v.203—...

...is clear. Will they know where to look for the good? I turn to the passage in the Natural History: It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they...ingrate : and whether the body be alterant or altered, evenmore a perception precedeth operation ; for else all bodies would be alike to one another. And...

...itself, Bacon's conception of "elective affinities" was a close parallel. "It is certain," he wrote, "that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense,...agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate." Sarpi was reported to have experimented with the transmutation of metals, although his interest was...

...natuurkundige formuleringen, bijvoorbeeld van de hand van Francis Bacon in zijn studie Sylva Sylvarum: It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they...have no sense, yet they have perception: for when body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to...

...the spurs to motion in nature, and the keys to her works.'27 Bacon defined chemical affinity as such: 'it is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though...whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore perception precedeth operation; for else all bodies would be like one to another.'28 This logic, naturally,...

...Whitehead quotes in his Science and the Modern World,1 the third chapter. The passage runs as follows : It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they...they have perception; for when one body is applied to 1 P. 52. another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or...

...recur to the passage from Francis Bacon's Natural History, already quoted in the previous lecture: It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : . . . and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation ; for...

...selects for special commendation a striking passage from Francis Bacon's Siha Siharum to the effect that " all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception . . . for else all bodies would be alike one to another." In other words, unless there is to be an unbridgeable...

...recur to the passage from Francis Bacon's Natural History, . Jbcady quoted in the previous lecture: ,;< 'It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, e£ they have perception: . . . and whether the body be alterant or , hered. evermore a perception...