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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