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" ... it were good to divide natural philosophy into the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers, and some smiths ; some to dig, and some to refine and hammer: and surely I do best allow... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 96
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - 1875 - 452 pages
...itSpuirav Seiv/nepov irAei." Sophocles, Antigone. "These be the two parts of natural philosophy,—the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects...speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence." Bacon's Advancement of Learning. Book II. '• The perception of real affinities between...
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Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers and some smiths ; some to dig, and...speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence. For as in civil matters there is a wisdom of discourse, and a wisdom of direction; so is...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers, and some smiths ; some to dig, and...speculative and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence. For as in civil matters there is a wisdom of discourse, and a wisdom of direction ; so is...
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Fourteenth century to the French Revolution, with a glimpse into the ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1882 - 744 pages
...any deficience, that he rather notes an excess," we come to Natural Philosophy which he divides into the " Inquisition of causes and the production of...speculative and operative; natural science and natural prudence." In the division of Natural Science into Physic and Metaphysic, and in his comments upon...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers, and some smiths ; some to dig, and...speculative and operative; natural science, and natural prudence. LEAVING therefore divine philosophy or natural theology, not divinity, or inspired theology,...
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The History of Freemasonry: Its Antiquities, Symbols ..., Volume 3

Robert Freke Gould - 1884 - 296 pages
...Articles of Masonry, p. 151, note k. s Freemasons' Magazine, Jan. 31, 1863, p. 84. •Ibid., p. 85. " These be the two parts of natural philosophy — the...Speculative, and Operative ; Natural Science, and Natural Prudence. . - . Both these knowledges, Speculative and Operative, have a great connexion between themselves."...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers and some smiths ; some to dig, and...speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence. For as in civil matters there is a wisdom of discourse, and a wisdom of direction; so is...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioners and some smiths ; some to dig, and some to refine...Speculative, and Operative ; Natural Science, and Xaturai~Prudence. For as in civil matters there is a wisdom of discourse and a wisdom of direction...
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Makers of Modern Thought; Or Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A ..., Volume 1

David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...of poisons in nature, or the nature of sin and vice in morality. He divides natural philosophy into the inquisition of causes and the production of effects...speculative and operative — natural science, and natural prudence. He says that the true meaning of the abused term, natural magic, is natural wisdom or natural...
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Makers of Modern Thought; Or Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A ..., Volume 1

David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...of poisons in nature, or the nature of sin and vice in morality. He divides natural philosophy into the inquisition of causes and the production of effects...speculative and operative — natural science, and natural prudence. He says that the true meaning of the abused term, natural magic, is natural wisdom or natural...
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