PREFACE.

further proof were wanting, it is supplied in abundance by the two appendages to the Opus Majus The "Greater Work." which were sent by Bacon to Pope Clement IV within a few months of the dispatch of the principal work, published by Professor Brewer in 1859, in the Rolls Series A famous collection of British historical sources., as Unpublished Works original Latin: "Opera Inedita". Special mention is made in the Lesser Work original Latin: "Opus Minus" (Brewer, p. 315) of passages of this seventh section which the author regarded as of special importance. In the Third Work original Latin: "Opus Tertium" (Brewer, pp. 48–52), a brief account is given of each of the six divisions of which it consisted.

Dr. Ingram’s paper was carefully studied by Victor Cousin, who had already devoted much time to the study of Bacon’s unpublished works. He remarked upon it in the Journal of Scholars original French: "Journal des Savants", 1859, p. 717, ‘We believe that there is no example in literary history of an error similar to that of Jebb. It is truly astonishing, but it is undeniable.’ And in truth the omission is of much greater significance than the mere loss of Bacon’s opinions on a subject of importance would imply. Throughout the Opus Majus there is an orderly arrangement of the subject-matter formed with a definite purpose, and leading up to a central theme, the consolidation of the Catholic faith as the supreme agency for the civilization and ennoblement of mankind. For this end a complete renovation and reorganization of man’s intellectual forces was needed. After a brief exposition of the four principal impediments to wisdom—authority, habit, prejudice, and false conceit of knowledge—Bacon proceeds in his second part to explain the inseparable connection of philosophy with the highest truths of religion. In primaeval ages both were entrusted to the patriarchs. Subsequently, while the