Excerpt from An Account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon Scientiarum: Or New Method of Studying the Sciences Abundant instances of almost equal absurdity might be 'collected from the opinions of the ancients, on various other branches of science. Take, for example, the doctrine of sensation, or feeling, in what was called the Peripatetic school, so called from a word signifying to walk about, because it was customary for the disciples to study and dispute as they walked in the Lycceum, a place at Athens which was appro priated to their use. Of this school, the founder was aristoi'le, a man of immense genius, who obtained the greatest popularity, and the most extensive influence over the opinions of mankind, of all the philosophers of antiquity, and who held the minds of men in a kind of intellectual bondage for about two thousand years. In the Peripatetic philosophy, 'what takes place in sensation was thus described: a sort of images, or, as they were termed, sensible species, that is, certain films of the Shape of bodies, came off, it was said, from the objects of sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.