were disjointed, would come to little. Secondly, methods 
     are more fit to win consent or belief, but less fit to point 
     to action; for they carry a kind of demonstration in orb or 
     circle, one part illuminating another, and therefore 
     satisfy; but particulars, being dispersed, do best agree 
     with dispersed directions. And lastly, Aphorisms, 
     representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire 
     farther; whereas Methods, carrying the show of a total, 
     do secure men, as if they were at farthest. (p. 142)

We find it hard to grasp that the Senecan Francis Bacon was in 
many respects a schoolman. Later, it will appear that his own 
“method” in science was straight out of medieval grammatica .

     Noting that the Roman scholastics or declaimers used 
sensational themes (such as the Senecan drama used in