Excerpt from Fables of the Ancients: In Philosophy, Morality, and Civil Policy

The happy talent, which the author, in his physical works, employs to interpret nature, is here employed to interpret the dark oracles of men. And to say the truth, he seems to have used the like artifice in both; proceeding according to the inductive method, delivered in the second part of the Novum Organum: without which, or something of the kind, it would not be easy to derive such depths of knowledge from the. Enigmas, or dark parable of antiquity. For example, he first culls out his fable, with choice and judgment; then trims or prunes it, rejecting what is superfluous or spurious; next turns and views it in different lights; and at length finds out the key for decyphering it, in the most natural and advantageous manner: and thus having got the right end of the thready the interpretation follows as it were spontaneously.

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