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Consents and Avoidances.

CLXXIX.

There should be a table of sympathies and antipathies; and care should be taken not to ascribe the sympathies and antipathies to wrong causes.

CLXXX.

(7 T)

There are many fictitious solutions of supposed sympathies and antipathies.

CLXXXI.

(7 U)

Compressing, extending, agitating, &c. (7 V)

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All things on earth tend to rarefaction, desiccation, and consumption; scarce any to condensation or suppleness. Instances of cold are to be diligently sought.

(7 Y)

CLXXXVI.

Of preparing bodies for the reception of cold; of substitutes for cold.

(7 Z)

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Particular Truths.

CXCII.

Do not reason upon a fact, until the existence of the fact is ascertained.

CXCIII.

(8 F)

Do not reason upon a fact, until all the circumstances attendant upon the fact are ascertained.

CXCIV.

(8 G)

When a fact is established, do not ascribe it to a wrong cause,-nor to chance, or supernatural interposition, or erroneous natural cause. (8 H)

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The use of general truths is to abridge the labour of particular inquiries.

(8 K)

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Observe the primary and universal axioms of simple natures.

CCI.

(8 N)

The art of discovering the properties of creatures is the most valuable of all arts.

(80)

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The foundation of the Baconian philosophy is

this: "All knowledge is founded on facts."

(8 R)

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