ANTIQUITAS SÆCULI JUVENTUS MUNDI.

The aphorism, "Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi," which occurs in the *Treatise de Augm. Scient.*, vol. viii. p. 39., and in the *Advancement of Learning*, vol. ii. p. 46., ed. Montagne, may be safely attributed to Lord Bacon himself, though it is printed in both passages in the form of quotation, between inverted commas. In the *Novum Organum*, lib. i. aph. 83, the thought appears in this form: "De antiquitate autem, opinio quam homines di ipsâ fovent. negligens omnino est, et vix verbo ipsi congrua. *Mundi enim senium et grandævitas pro antiquitate vere habenda sunt*; quæ temporibus nostris…