[ { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THERE were under the law, excellent King, both daily sacrifices and freewill offerings; the one proceeding upon ordinary observance, the other upon a devout cheerfulness: in like manner there belonget...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THERE were under the law, excellent King, both daily sacrifices and freewill offerings; the one proceeding upon ordinary observance, the other upon a devout cheerfulness: in like manner there belongeth to kings from their servants both tribute of duty and presents of affection. In the former of thes", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_0" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Wherefore, representing your Majesty many times unto my mind, and beholding you not with the inquisitive eye of presumption, to discover that which the Scripture telleth me is inscrutable, but with th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Wherefore, representing your Majesty many times unto my mind, and beholding you not with the inquisitive eye of presumption, to discover that which the Scripture telleth me is inscrutable, but with the observant eye of duty and admiration, leaving aside the other parts of your virtue and fortune, I ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_1" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Therefore I did conclude with myself that I could not make unto your Majesty a better oblation than of some treatise tending to that end, whereof the sum will consist of these two parts: the former co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Therefore I did conclude with myself that I could not make unto your Majesty a better oblation than of some treatise tending to that end, whereof the sum will consist of these two parts: the former concerning the excellency of learning and knowledge, and the excellency of the merit and true glory in", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_2" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I. (1) In the entrance to the former of these—to clear the way and, as it were, to make silence, to have the true testimonies concerning the dignity of learning to be better heard, without the interru...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I. (1) In the entrance to the former of these—to clear the way and, as it were, to make silence, to have the true testimonies concerning the dignity of learning to be better heard, without the interruption of tacit objections—I think good to deliver it from the discredits and disgraces which it hath", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_3" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) I hear the former sort say that knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution; that the aspiring to overmuch knowledge was the original temptation and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) I hear the former sort say that knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution; that the aspiring to overmuch knowledge was the original temptation and sin whereupon ensued the fall of man; that knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and, theref", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_4" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) To discover, then, the ignorance and error of this opinion, and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof, it may well appear these men do not observe or consider that it was not the pure knowle...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) To discover, then, the ignorance and error of this opinion, and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof, it may well appear these men do not observe or consider that it was not the pure knowledge of Nature and universality, a knowledge by the light whereof man did give names unto other creat", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_5" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "II. (1) And as for the disgraces which learning receiveth from politics, they be of this nature: that learning doth soften men’s minds, and makes them more unapt for the honour and exercise of arms; t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: II. (1) And as for the disgraces which learning receiveth from politics, they be of this nature: that learning doth soften men’s minds, and makes them more unapt for the honour and exercise of arms; that it doth mar and pervert men’s dispositions for matter of government and policy, in making them t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_6" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) But these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant that, both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) But these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant that, both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and concurrence in learning and arms, flourishing and excelling in the same men and the same ages. For as ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_7" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable; we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable; we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians, which commonly have a few pleasing receipts whereupon they are confident and adventurous,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_8" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) And as for those particular seducements or indispositions of the mind for policy and government, which learning is pretended to insinuate; if it be granted that any such thing be, it must be remem...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) And as for those particular seducements or indispositions of the mind for policy and government, which learning is pretended to insinuate; if it be granted that any such thing be, it must be remembered withal that learning ministereth in every of them greater strength of medicine or remedy than ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_9" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) And for the conceit that learning should dispose men to leisure and privateness, and make men slothful: it were a strange thing if that which accustometh the mind to a perpetual motion and agitati...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) And for the conceit that learning should dispose men to leisure and privateness, and make men slothful: it were a strange thing if that which accustometh the mind to a perpetual motion and agitation should induce slothfulness, whereas, contrariwise, it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men l", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_10" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) And if any man be laborious in reading and study, and yet idle in business and action, it groweth from some weakness of body or softness of spirit, such as Seneca speaketh of: _Quidam tam sunt umb...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) And if any man be laborious in reading and study, and yet idle in business and action, it groweth from some weakness of body or softness of spirit, such as Seneca speaketh of: _Quidam tam sunt umbratiles_, _ut putent in turbido esse quicquid in luce est_; and not of learning: well may it be that", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_11" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) And that learning should take up too much time or leisure: I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been or can be, hath (no question) many vacant times of leisure while he expecteth the ti...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) And that learning should take up too much time or leisure: I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been or can be, hath (no question) many vacant times of leisure while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_12" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) Again, for that other conceit that learning should undermine the reverence of laws and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all shadow of truth. For to say that a bl...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) Again, for that other conceit that learning should undermine the reverence of laws and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all shadow of truth. For to say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, it is to affir", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_13" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning, in the same kind wherein he offended; for when he was past threescore years old, he was taken wi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning, in the same kind wherein he offended; for when he was past threescore years old, he was taken with an extreme desire to go to school again, and to learn the Greek tongue, to the end to peruse the ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_14" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "III. (1) Now therefore we come to that third sort of discredit or diminution of credit that groweth unto learning from learned men themselves, which commonly cleaveth fastest: it is either from their ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: III. (1) Now therefore we come to that third sort of discredit or diminution of credit that groweth unto learning from learned men themselves, which commonly cleaveth fastest: it is either from their fortune, or from their manners, or from the nature of their studies. For the first, it is not in the", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_15" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Concerning want, and that it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little, and not to grow rich so fast as other men, by reason they convert not their labours chiefly to lucre and incre...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Concerning want, and that it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little, and not to grow rich so fast as other men, by reason they convert not their labours chiefly to lucre and increase, it were good to leave the commonplace in commendation of povery to some friar to handle, to who", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_16" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) And for meanness of employment, that which is most traduced to contempt is that the government of youth is commonly allotted to them; which age, because it is the age of least authority, it is tra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) And for meanness of employment, that which is most traduced to contempt is that the government of youth is commonly allotted to them; which age, because it is the age of least authority, it is transferred to the disesteeming of those employments wherein youth is conversant, and which are convers", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_17" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) As touching the manners of learned men, it is a thing personal and individual: and no doubt there be amongst them, as in other professions, of all temperatures: but yet so as it is not without tru...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) As touching the manners of learned men, it is a thing personal and individual: and no doubt there be amongst them, as in other professions, of all temperatures: but yet so as it is not without truth which is said, that _Abeunt studua in mores_, studies have an influence and operation upon the ma", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_18" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) But upon an attentive and indifferent review, I for my part cannot find any disgrace to learning can proceed from the manners of learned men; not inherent to them as they are learned; except it be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) But upon an attentive and indifferent review, I for my part cannot find any disgrace to learning can proceed from the manners of learned men; not inherent to them as they are learned; except it be a fault (which was the supposed fault of Demosthenes, Cicero, Cato II., Seneca, and many more) that", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_19" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Another fault likewise much of this kind hath been incident to learned men, which is, that they have esteemed the preservation, good, and honour of their countries or masters before their own fort...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Another fault likewise much of this kind hath been incident to learned men, which is, that they have esteemed the preservation, good, and honour of their countries or masters before their own fortunes or safeties. For so saith Demosthenes unto the Athenians: “If it please you to note it, my coun", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_20" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Another fault incident commonly to learned men, which may be more properly defended than truly denied, is that they fail sometimes in applying themselves to particular persons, which want of exact...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Another fault incident commonly to learned men, which may be more properly defended than truly denied, is that they fail sometimes in applying themselves to particular persons, which want of exact application ariseth from two causes—the one, because the largeness of their mind can hardly confine", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_21" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) There is yet another fault (with which I will conclude this part) which is often noted in learned men, that they do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriag...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) There is yet another fault (with which I will conclude this part) which is often noted in learned men, that they do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, and commit errors in small and ordinary points of action, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_22" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) But in the meantime I have no purpose to give allowance to some conditions and courses base and unworthy, wherein divers professors of learning have wronged themselves and gone too far; such as we...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) But in the meantime I have no purpose to give allowance to some conditions and courses base and unworthy, wherein divers professors of learning have wronged themselves and gone too far; such as were those trencher philosophers which in the later age of the Roman state were usually in the houses ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_23" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Not that I can tax or condemn the morigeration or application of learned men to men in fortune. For the answer was good that Diogenes made to one that asked him in mockery, “How it came to pass t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Not that I can tax or condemn the morigeration or application of learned men to men in fortune. For the answer was good that Diogenes made to one that asked him in mockery, “How it came to pass that philosophers were the followers of rich men, and not rich men of philosophers?” He answered sobe", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_24" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IV. (1) Now I proceed to those errors and vanities which have intervened amongst the studies themselves of the learned, which is that which is principal and proper to the present argument; wherein my ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IV. (1) Now I proceed to those errors and vanities which have intervened amongst the studies themselves of the learned, which is that which is principal and proper to the present argument; wherein my purpose is not to make a justification of the errors, but by a censure and separation of the errors ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_25" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) There be therefore chiefly three vanities in studies, whereby learning hath been most traduced. For those things we do esteem vain which are either false or frivolous, those which either have no t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) There be therefore chiefly three vanities in studies, whereby learning hath been most traduced. For those things we do esteem vain which are either false or frivolous, those which either have no truth or no use; and those persons we esteem vain which are either credulous or curious; and curiosit", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_26" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; whereof, though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be _secundum majus ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; whereof, though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be _secundum majus et minus_ in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learnin", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_27" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity even of philosophy itself with sensible and plausible elocution. For hereof we have great examp...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity even of philosophy itself with sensible and plausible elocution. For hereof we have great examples in Xenophon, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, and of Plato also in some degree; and hereof likewise the", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_28" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) The second which followeth is in nature worse than the former: for as substance of matter is better than beauty of words, so contrariwise vain matter is worse than vain words: wherein it seemeth t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) The second which followeth is in nature worse than the former: for as substance of matter is better than beauty of words, so contrariwise vain matter is worse than vain words: wherein it seemeth the reprehension of St. Paul was not only proper for those times, but prophetical for the times follo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_29" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts: either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a fruitless speculation or controversy (whereof there are no small number b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts: either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a fruitless speculation or controversy (whereof there are no small number both in divinity and philosophy), or in the manner or method of handling of a knowledge, which amongs", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_30" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Notwithstanding, certain it is that if those schoolmen to their great thirst of truth and unwearied travail of wit had joined variety and universality of reading and contemplation, they had proved...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Notwithstanding, certain it is that if those schoolmen to their great thirst of truth and unwearied travail of wit had joined variety and universality of reading and contemplation, they had proved excellent lights, to the great advancement of all learning and knowledge; but as they are, they are", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_31" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) For the third vice or disease of learning, which concerneth deceit or untruth, it is of all the rest the foulest; as that which doth destroy the essential form of knowledge, which is nothing but a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) For the third vice or disease of learning, which concerneth deceit or untruth, it is of all the rest the foulest; as that which doth destroy the essential form of knowledge, which is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_32" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "an inquisitive man is a prattler; so upon the like reason a credulous man is a deceiver: as we see it in fame, that he that will easily believe rumours will as easily augment rumours and add somewhat ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: an inquisitive man is a prattler; so upon the like reason a credulous man is a deceiver: as we see it in fame, that he that will easily believe rumours will as easily augment rumours and add somewhat to them of his own; which Tacitus wisely noteth, when he saith, _Fingunt simul creduntque_: so great", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_33" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) This facility of credit and accepting or admitting things weakly authorised or warranted is of two kinds according to the subject: for it is either a belief of history, or, as the lawyers speak, m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) This facility of credit and accepting or admitting things weakly authorised or warranted is of two kinds according to the subject: for it is either a belief of history, or, as the lawyers speak, matter of fact; or else of matter of art and opinion. As to the former, we see the experience and inc", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_34" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) So in natural history, we see there hath not been that choice and judgment used as ought to have been; as may appear in the writings of Plinius, Cardanus, Albertus, and divers of the Arabians, be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) So in natural history, we see there hath not been that choice and judgment used as ought to have been; as may appear in the writings of Plinius, Cardanus, Albertus, and divers of the Arabians, being fraught with much fabulous matter, a great part not only untried, but notoriously untrue, to the", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_35" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) And as for the facility of credit which is yielded to arts and opinions, it is likewise of two kinds; either when too much belief is attributed to the arts themselves, or to certain authors in an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) And as for the facility of credit which is yielded to arts and opinions, it is likewise of two kinds; either when too much belief is attributed to the arts themselves, or to certain authors in any art. The sciences themselves, which have had better intelligence and confederacy with the imaginat", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_36" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) And as for the overmuch credit that hath been given unto authors in sciences, in making them dictators, that their words should stand, and not consuls, to give advice; the damage is infinite that...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) And as for the overmuch credit that hath been given unto authors in sciences, in making them dictators, that their words should stand, and not consuls, to give advice; the damage is infinite that sciences have received thereby, as the principal cause that hath kept them low at a stay without gr", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_37" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "V. (1) The first of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities: the one antiquity, the other novelty; wherein it seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father. ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: V. (1) The first of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities: the one antiquity, the other novelty; wherein it seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father. For as he devoureth his children, so one of them seeketh to devour and suppress the other; while ant", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_38" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Another error induced by the former is a distrust that anything should be now to be found out, which the world should have missed and passed over so long time: as if the same objection were to be ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Another error induced by the former is a distrust that anything should be now to be found out, which the world should have missed and passed over so long time: as if the same objection were to be made to time that Lucian maketh to Jupiter and other the heathen gods; of which he wondereth that th", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_39" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Another error, that hath also some affinity with the former, is a conceit that of former opinions or sects after variety and examination the best hath still prevailed and suppressed the rest; so a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Another error, that hath also some affinity with the former, is a conceit that of former opinions or sects after variety and examination the best hath still prevailed and suppressed the rest; so as if a man should begin the labour of a new search, he were but like to light upon somewhat formerly", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_40" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arts and methods; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augment...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arts and methods; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_41" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Another error which doth succeed that which we last mentioned is, that after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or _philosophia prima_, which cannot...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Another error which doth succeed that which we last mentioned is, that after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or _philosophia prima_, which cannot but cease and stop all progression. For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level; ne", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_42" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Another error hath proceeded from too great a reverence, and a kind of adoration of the mind and understanding of man; by means whereof, men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplati...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Another error hath proceeded from too great a reverence, and a kind of adoration of the mind and understanding of man; by means whereof, men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplation of nature, and the observations of experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own reason a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_43" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Another error that hath some connection with this latter is, that men have used to infect their meditations, opinions, and doctrines with some conceits which they have most admired, or some scienc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Another error that hath some connection with this latter is, that men have used to infect their meditations, opinions, and doctrines with some conceits which they have most admired, or some sciences which they have most applied, and given all things else a tincture according to them, utterly unt", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_44" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spok...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the oth", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_45" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and faithful; in a sort as may be soonest believed...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and faithful; in a sort as may be soonest believed, and not easiest examined. It is true, that in compendious treatises for practice that form is not ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_46" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Other errors there are in the scope that men propound to themselves, whereunto they bend their endeavours; for, whereas the more constant and devote kind of professors of any science ought to pro...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Other errors there are in the scope that men propound to themselves, whereunto they bend their endeavours; for, whereas the more constant and devote kind of professors of any science ought to propound to themselves to make some additions to their science, they convert their labours to aspire to", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_47" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight;", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_48" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth—that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth—that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy. But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man, so th", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_49" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) Thus have I described and opened, as by a kind of dissection, those peccant humours (the principal of them) which have not only given impediment to the proficience of learning, but have given als...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) Thus have I described and opened, as by a kind of dissection, those peccant humours (the principal of them) which have not only given impediment to the proficience of learning, but have given also occasion to the traducement thereof: wherein, if I have been too plain, it must be remembered, _fi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_50" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VI. (1) First, therefore, let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed wi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VI. (1) First, therefore, let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of learning, for all learning is knowledge acqui", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_51" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) It is so, then, that in the work of the creation we see a double emanation of virtue from God; the one referring more properly to power, the other to wisdom; the one expressed in making the subsis...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) It is so, then, that in the work of the creation we see a double emanation of virtue from God; the one referring more properly to power, the other to wisdom; the one expressed in making the subsistence of the matter, and the other in disposing the beauty of the form. This being supposed, it is t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_52" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) To proceed, to that which is next in order from God, to spirits: we find, as far as credit is to be given to the celestial hierarchy of that supposed Dionysius, the senator of Athens, the first pl...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) To proceed, to that which is next in order from God, to spirits: we find, as far as credit is to be given to the celestial hierarchy of that supposed Dionysius, the senator of Athens, the first place or degree is given to the angels of love, which are termed seraphim; the second to the angels of", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_53" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) To descend from spirits and intellectual forms to sensible and material forms, we read the first form that was created was light, which hath a relation and correspondence in nature and corporal th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) To descend from spirits and intellectual forms to sensible and material forms, we read the first form that was created was light, which hath a relation and correspondence in nature and corporal things to knowledge in spirits and incorporal things.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_54" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) So in the distribution of days we see the day wherein God did rest and contemplate His own works was blessed above all the days wherein He did effect and accomplish them.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) So in the distribution of days we see the day wherein God did rest and contemplate His own works was blessed above all the days wherein He did effect and accomplish them.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_55" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) After the creation was finished, it is set down unto us that man was placed in the garden to work therein; which work, so appointed to him, could be no other than work of contemplation; that is, w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) After the creation was finished, it is set down unto us that man was placed in the garden to work therein; which work, so appointed to him, could be no other than work of contemplation; that is, when the end of work is but for exercise and experiment, not for necessity; for there being then no r", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_56" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) To pass on: in the first event or occurrence after the fall of man, we see (as the Scriptures have infinite mysteries, not violating at all the truth of this story or letter) an image of the two e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) To pass on: in the first event or occurrence after the fall of man, we see (as the Scriptures have infinite mysteries, not violating at all the truth of this story or letter) an image of the two estates, the contemplative state and the active state, figured in the two persons of Abel and Cain, a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_57" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) So in the age before the flood, the holy records within those few memorials which are there entered and registered have vouchsafed to mention and honour the name of the inventors and authors of mu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) So in the age before the flood, the holy records within those few memorials which are there entered and registered have vouchsafed to mention and honour the name of the inventors and authors of music and works in metal. In the age after the flood, the first great judgment of God upon the ambitio", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_58" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) To descend to Moses the lawgiver, and God’s first pen: he is adorned by the Scriptures with this addition and commendation, “That he was seen in all the learning of the Egyptians,” which nation we...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) To descend to Moses the lawgiver, and God’s first pen: he is adorned by the Scriptures with this addition and commendation, “That he was seen in all the learning of the Egyptians,” which nation we know was one of the most ancient schools of the world: for so Plato brings in the Egyptian priest s", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_59" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) So likewise in that excellent hook of Job, if it be revolved with diligence, it will be found pregnant and swelling with natural philosophy; as for example, cosmography, and the roundness of the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) So likewise in that excellent hook of Job, if it be revolved with diligence, it will be found pregnant and swelling with natural philosophy; as for example, cosmography, and the roundness of the world, _Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum_, _et appendit terram super nihilum_; wherein the pensil", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_60" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) So likewise in the person of Solomon the king, we see the gift or endowment of wisdom and learning, both in Solomon’s petition and in God’s assent thereunto, preferred before all other terrene an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) So likewise in the person of Solomon the king, we see the gift or endowment of wisdom and learning, both in Solomon’s petition and in God’s assent thereunto, preferred before all other terrene and temporal felicity. By virtue of which grant or donative of God Solomon became enabled not only to ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_61" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into the world; for our Saviour himself did first show His power to subdue ignorance, by His conference with the pries...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into the world; for our Saviour himself did first show His power to subdue ignorance, by His conference with the priests and doctors of the law, before He showed His power to subdue nature by His miracles.\nAnd the comi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_62" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) So in the election of those instruments, which it pleased God to use for the plantation of the faith, notwithstanding that at the first He did employ persons altogether unlearned, otherwise than ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) So in the election of those instruments, which it pleased God to use for the plantation of the faith, notwithstanding that at the first He did employ persons altogether unlearned, otherwise than by inspiration, more evidently to declare His immediate working, and to abase all human wisdom or kn", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_63" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) So again we find that many of the ancient bishops and fathers of the Church were excellently read and studied in all the learning of this heathen; insomuch that the edict of the Emperor Julianus ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) So again we find that many of the ancient bishops and fathers of the Church were excellently read and studied in all the learning of this heathen; insomuch that the edict of the Emperor Julianus (whereby it was interdicted unto Christians to be admitted into schools, lectures, or exercises of l", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_64" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(15) And we see before our eyes, that in the age of ourselves and our fathers, when it pleased God to call the Church of Rome to account for their degenerate manners and ceremonies, and sundry doctrin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (15) And we see before our eyes, that in the age of ourselves and our fathers, when it pleased God to call the Church of Rome to account for their degenerate manners and ceremonies, and sundry doctrines obnoxious and framed to uphold the same abuses; at one and the same time it was ordained by the D", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_65" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(16) Wherefore, to conclude this part, let it be observed, that there be two principal duties and services, besides ornament and illustration, which philosophy and human learning do perform to faith a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (16) Wherefore, to conclude this part, let it be observed, that there be two principal duties and services, besides ornament and illustration, which philosophy and human learning do perform to faith and religion.\nThe one, because they are an effectual inducement to the exaltation of the glory of God", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_66" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VII. (1) As for human proofs, it is so large a field, as in a discourse of this nature and brevity it is fit rather to use choice of those things which we shall produce, than to embrace the variety of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VII. (1) As for human proofs, it is so large a field, as in a discourse of this nature and brevity it is fit rather to use choice of those things which we shall produce, than to embrace the variety of them. First, therefore, in the degrees of human honour amongst the heathen, it was the highest to o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_67" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Neither is certainly that other merit of learning, in repressing the inconveniences which grow from man to man, much inferior to the former, of relieving the necessities which arise from nature, w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Neither is certainly that other merit of learning, in repressing the inconveniences which grow from man to man, much inferior to the former, of relieving the necessities which arise from nature, which merit was lively set forth by the ancients in that feigned relation of Orpheus’ theatre, where ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_68" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) But this appeareth more manifestly when kings themselves, or persons of authority under them, or other governors in commonwealths and popular estates, are endued with learning. For although he mig...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) But this appeareth more manifestly when kings themselves, or persons of authority under them, or other governors in commonwealths and popular estates, are endued with learning. For although he might be thought partial to his own profession that said “Then should people and estates be happy when ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_69" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Which felicity of times under learned princes (to keep still the law of brevity, by using the most eminent and selected examples) doth best appear in the age which passed from the death of Domitia...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Which felicity of times under learned princes (to keep still the law of brevity, by using the most eminent and selected examples) doth best appear in the age which passed from the death of Domitianus the emperor until the reign of Commodus; comprehending a succession of six princes, all learned,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_70" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Trajan, who succeeded, was for his person not learned; but if we will hearken to the speech of our Saviour, that saith, “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall have a prophet’s...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Trajan, who succeeded, was for his person not learned; but if we will hearken to the speech of our Saviour, that saith, “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall have a prophet’s reward,” he deserveth to be placed amongst the most learned princes; for there was not a greater ad", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_71" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Adrian, his successor, was the most curious man that lived, and the most universal inquirer: insomuch as it was noted for an error in his mind that he desired to comprehend all things, and not to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Adrian, his successor, was the most curious man that lived, and the most universal inquirer: insomuch as it was noted for an error in his mind that he desired to comprehend all things, and not to reserve himself for the worthiest things, falling into the like humour that was long before noted in", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_72" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Antoninus Pius, who succeeded him, was a prince excellently learned, and had the patient and subtle wit of a schoolman, insomuch as in common speech (which leaves no virtue untaxed) he was called ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Antoninus Pius, who succeeded him, was a prince excellently learned, and had the patient and subtle wit of a schoolman, insomuch as in common speech (which leaves no virtue untaxed) he was called _Cymini Sector_, a carver or a divider of cummin seed, which is one of the least seeds.\nSuch a patie", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_73" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) There succeeded him the first _Divi fratres_, the two adoptive brethren—Lucius Commodus Verus, son to Ælius Verus, who delighted much in the softer kind of learning, and was wont to call the poet ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) There succeeded him the first _Divi fratres_, the two adoptive brethren—Lucius Commodus Verus, son to Ælius Verus, who delighted much in the softer kind of learning, and was wont to call the poet Martial his Virgil; and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: whereof the latter, who obscured his colleague an", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_74" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) But for a tablet or picture of smaller volume (not presuming to speak of your Majesty that liveth), in my judgment the most excellent is that of Queen Elizabeth, your immediate predecessor in this...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) But for a tablet or picture of smaller volume (not presuming to speak of your Majesty that liveth), in my judgment the most excellent is that of Queen Elizabeth, your immediate predecessor in this part of Britain; a prince that, if Plutarch were now alive to write lives by parallels, would troub", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_75" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Neither hath learning an influence and operation only upon civil merit and moral virtue, and the arts or temperature of peace and peaceable government; but likewise it hath no less power and effi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Neither hath learning an influence and operation only upon civil merit and moral virtue, and the arts or temperature of peace and peaceable government; but likewise it hath no less power and efficacy in enablement towards martial and military virtue and prowess, as may be notably represented in", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_76" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) Alexander was bred and taught under Aristotle, the great philosopher, who dedicated divers of his books of philosophy unto him; he was attended with Callisthenes and divers other learned persons,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) Alexander was bred and taught under Aristotle, the great philosopher, who dedicated divers of his books of philosophy unto him; he was attended with Callisthenes and divers other learned persons, that followed him in camp, throughout his journeys and conquests. What price and estimation he had ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_77" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) And herein again it may seem a thing scholastical, and somewhat idle to recite things that every man knoweth; but yet, since the argument I handle leadeth me thereunto, I am glad that men shall p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) And herein again it may seem a thing scholastical, and somewhat idle to recite things that every man knoweth; but yet, since the argument I handle leadeth me thereunto, I am glad that men shall perceive I am as willing to flatter (if they will so call it) an Alexander, or a Cæsar, or an Antonin", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_78" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) Observe, again, that speech which was usual with him,—“That he felt his mortality chiefly in two things, sleep and lust;” and see if it were not a speech extracted out of the depth of natural phi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) Observe, again, that speech which was usual with him,—“That he felt his mortality chiefly in two things, sleep and lust;” and see if it were not a speech extracted out of the depth of natural philosophy, and liker to have come out of the mouth of Aristotle or Democritus than from Alexander.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_79" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) See, again, that speech of humanity and poesy, when, upon the bleeding of his wounds, he called unto him one of his flatterers, that was wont to ascribe to him divine honour, and said, “Look, thi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) See, again, that speech of humanity and poesy, when, upon the bleeding of his wounds, he called unto him one of his flatterers, that was wont to ascribe to him divine honour, and said, “Look, this is very blood; this is not such a liquor as Homer speaketh of, which ran from Venus’ hand when it ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_80" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(15) See likewise his readiness in reprehension of logic in the speech he used to Cassander, upon a complaint that was made against his father Antipater; for when Alexander happened to say, “Do you th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (15) See likewise his readiness in reprehension of logic in the speech he used to Cassander, upon a complaint that was made against his father Antipater; for when Alexander happened to say, “Do you think these men would have come from so far to complain except they had just cause of grief?” and Cass", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_81" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(16) But note, again, how well he could use the same art which he reprehended to serve his own humour: when bearing a secret grudge to Callisthenes, because he was against the new ceremony of his ador...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (16) But note, again, how well he could use the same art which he reprehended to serve his own humour: when bearing a secret grudge to Callisthenes, because he was against the new ceremony of his adoration, feasting one night where the same Callisthenes was at the table, it was moved by some after s", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_82" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(17) Consider further, for tropes of rhetoric, that excellent use of a metaphor or translation, wherewith he taxeth Antipater, who was an imperious and tyrannous governor; for when one of Antipater’s ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (17) Consider further, for tropes of rhetoric, that excellent use of a metaphor or translation, wherewith he taxeth Antipater, who was an imperious and tyrannous governor; for when one of Antipater’s friends commended him to Alexander for his moderation, that he did not degenerate as his other lieut", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_83" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(18) For matter of policy, weigh that significant distinction, so much in all ages embraced, that he made between his two friends Hephæstion and Craterus, when he said, “That the one loved Alexander, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (18) For matter of policy, weigh that significant distinction, so much in all ages embraced, that he made between his two friends Hephæstion and Craterus, when he said, “That the one loved Alexander, and the other loved the king:” describing the principal difference of princes’ best servants, that s", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_84" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(19) Weigh also that excellent taxation of an error, ordinary with counsellors of princes, that they counsel their masters according to the model of their own mind and fortune, and not of their master...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (19) Weigh also that excellent taxation of an error, ordinary with counsellors of princes, that they counsel their masters according to the model of their own mind and fortune, and not of their masters. When upon Darius’ great offers Parmenio had said, “Surely I would accept these offers were I as A", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_85" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(20) Lastly, weigh that quick and acute reply which he made when he gave so large gifts to his friends and servants, and was asked what he did reserve for himself, and he answered, “Hope.” Weigh, I sa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (20) Lastly, weigh that quick and acute reply which he made when he gave so large gifts to his friends and servants, and was asked what he did reserve for himself, and he answered, “Hope.” Weigh, I say, whether he had not cast up his account aright, because _hope_ must be the portion of all that res", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_86" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(21) To conclude, therefore, as certain critics are used to say hyperbolically, “That if all sciences were lost they might be found in Virgil,” so certainly this may be said truly, there are the print...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (21) To conclude, therefore, as certain critics are used to say hyperbolically, “That if all sciences were lost they might be found in Virgil,” so certainly this may be said truly, there are the prints and footsteps of learning in those few speeches which are reported of this prince, the admiration ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_87" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(22) As for Julius Cæsar, the excellency of his learning needeth not to be argued from his education, or his company, or his speeches; but in a further degree doth declare itself in his writings and w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (22) As for Julius Cæsar, the excellency of his learning needeth not to be argued from his education, or his company, or his speeches; but in a further degree doth declare itself in his writings and works: whereof some are extant and permanent, and some unfortunately perished. For first, we see ther", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_88" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(23) So we receive from him, as a monument both of his power and learning, the then reformed computation of the year; well expressing that he took it to be as great a glory to himself to observe and k...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (23) So we receive from him, as a monument both of his power and learning, the then reformed computation of the year; well expressing that he took it to be as great a glory to himself to observe and know the law of the heavens, as to give law to men upon the earth.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_89" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(24) So likewise in that book of his, _Anti-Cato_, it may easily appear that he did aspire as well to victory of wit as victory of war: undertaking therein a conflict against the greatest champion wit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (24) So likewise in that book of his, _Anti-Cato_, it may easily appear that he did aspire as well to victory of wit as victory of war: undertaking therein a conflict against the greatest champion with the pen that then lived, Cicero the orator.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_90" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(25) So, again, in his book of Apophthegms, which he collected, we see that he esteemed it more honour to make himself but a pair of tables, to take the wise and pithy words of others, than to have ev...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (25) So, again, in his book of Apophthegms, which he collected, we see that he esteemed it more honour to make himself but a pair of tables, to take the wise and pithy words of others, than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle, as vain princes, by custom of flattery, p", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_91" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(26) As first, it is reason he be thought a master of words, that could with one word appease a mutiny in his army, which was thus: The Romans, when their generals did speak to their army, did use the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (26) As first, it is reason he be thought a master of words, that could with one word appease a mutiny in his army, which was thus: The Romans, when their generals did speak to their army, did use the word _Milites_, but when the magistrates spake to the people they did use the word _Quirites_. The ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_92" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(27) The second speech was thus: Cæsar did extremely affect the name of king; and some were set on as he passed by in popular acclamation to salute him king. Whereupon, finding the cry weak and poor, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (27) The second speech was thus: Cæsar did extremely affect the name of king; and some were set on as he passed by in popular acclamation to salute him king. Whereupon, finding the cry weak and poor, he put it off thus, in a kind of jest, as if they had mistaken his surname: _Non Rex sum_, _sed Cæsa", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_93" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(28) The last speech which I will mention was used to Metellus, when Cæsar, after war declared, did possess himself of this city of Rome; at which time, entering into the inner treasury to take the mo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (28) The last speech which I will mention was used to Metellus, when Cæsar, after war declared, did possess himself of this city of Rome; at which time, entering into the inner treasury to take the money there accumulate, Metellus, being tribune, forbade him. Whereto Cæsar said, “That if he did not ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_94" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(29) But to return and conclude with him, it is evident himself knew well his own perfection in learning, and took it upon him, as appeared when upon occasion that some spake what a strange resolution...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (29) But to return and conclude with him, it is evident himself knew well his own perfection in learning, and took it upon him, as appeared when upon occasion that some spake what a strange resolution it was in Lucius Sylla to resign his dictators, he, scoffing at him to his own advantage, answered,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_95" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(30) And here it were fit to leave this point, touching the concurrence of military virtue and learning (for what example should come with any grace after those two of Alexander and Cæsar?), were it n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (30) And here it were fit to leave this point, touching the concurrence of military virtue and learning (for what example should come with any grace after those two of Alexander and Cæsar?), were it not in regard of the rareness of circumstance, that I find in one other particular, as that which did", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_96" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VIII. (1) To proceed now from imperial and military virtue to moral and private virtue; first, it is an assured truth, which is contained in the verses:—", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VIII. (1) To proceed now from imperial and military virtue to moral and private virtue; first, it is an assured truth, which is contained in the verses:—", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_97" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It taketh away the wildness and barbarism and fierceness of men’s minds; but indeed the accent had need be upon _fideliter_; for a little superficial learning doth rather work a contrary effect. It ta...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It taketh away the wildness and barbarism and fierceness of men’s minds; but indeed the accent had need be upon _fideliter_; for a little superficial learning doth rather work a contrary effect. It taketh away all levity, temerity, and insolency, by copious suggestion of all doubts and difficulties,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_98" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes h...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations ther", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_100" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) From moral virtue let us pass on to matter of power and commandment, and consider whether in right reason there be any comparable with that wherewith knowledge investeth and crowneth man’s nature....", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) From moral virtue let us pass on to matter of power and commandment, and consider whether in right reason there be any comparable with that wherewith knowledge investeth and crowneth man’s nature. We see the dignity of the commandment is according to the dignity of the commanded; to have command", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_101" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But yet the commandment of knowledge is yet higher than the commandment over the will; for it is a commandment over the reason, belief, and understanding of man, which is the highest part of the mind,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But yet the commandment of knowledge is yet higher than the commandment over the will; for it is a commandment over the reason, belief, and understanding of man, which is the highest part of the mind, and giveth law to the will itself. For there is no power on earth which setteth up a throne or chai", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_102" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) As for fortune and advancement, the beneficence of learning is not so confined to give fortune only to states and commonwealths, as it doth not likewise give fortune to particular persons. For it ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) As for fortune and advancement, the beneficence of learning is not so confined to give fortune only to states and commonwealths, as it doth not likewise give fortune to particular persons. For it was well noted long ago, that Homer hath given more men their livings, than either Sylla, or Cæsar, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_103" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Again, for the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature. For, shall the pleasures of the affections so exceed the pleasure of the sense, as much as the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Again, for the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature. For, shall the pleasures of the affections so exceed the pleasure of the sense, as much as the obtaining of desire or victory exceedeth a song or a dinner? and must not of consequence the pleasu", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_104" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "“It is a view of delight,” saith he, “to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain....", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: “It is a view of delight,” saith he, “to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified in the ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_105" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts; that by learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he can...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts; that by learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he cannot come; and the like: let us conclude with the dignity and excellency of knowledge and learning in", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_106" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Nevertheless I do not pretend, and I know it will be impossible for me, by any pleading of mine, to reverse the judgment, either of Æsop’s cock, that preferred the barleycorn before the gem; or of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Nevertheless I do not pretend, and I know it will be impossible for me, by any pleading of mine, to reverse the judgment, either of Æsop’s cock, that preferred the barleycorn before the gem; or of Midas, that being chosen judge between Apollo, president of the Muses, and Pan, god of the flocks, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_107" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "1. IT might seem to have more convenience, though it come often otherwise to pass (excellent King), that those which are fruitful in their generations, and have in themselves the foresight of immortal...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 1. IT might seem to have more convenience, though it come often otherwise to pass (excellent King), that those which are fruitful in their generations, and have in themselves the foresight of immortality in their descendants, should likewise be more careful of the good estate of future times, unto w", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_108" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "2. Let this ground therefore be laid, that all works are over common by amplitude of reward, by soundness of direction, and by the conjunction of labours. The first multiplieth endeavour, the second p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 2. Let this ground therefore be laid, that all works are over common by amplitude of reward, by soundness of direction, and by the conjunction of labours. The first multiplieth endeavour, the second preventeth error, and the third supplieth the frailty of man. But the principal of these is direction", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_109" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "3. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant about three objects—the places of learning, the books of learning, and the persons of the learned. For as water, whether it be the dew of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 3. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant about three objects—the places of learning, the books of learning, and the persons of the learned. For as water, whether it be the dew of heaven or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and leese itself in the ground, except it be collec", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_110" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "4. The works which concern the seats and places of learning are four—foundations and buildings, endowments with revenues, endowments with franchises and privileges, institutions and ordinances for gov...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 4. The works which concern the seats and places of learning are four—foundations and buildings, endowments with revenues, endowments with franchises and privileges, institutions and ordinances for government—all tending to quietness and privateness of life, and discharge of cares and troubles; much ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_111" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "5. The works touching books are two—first, libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 5. The works touching books are two—first, libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more faithful translati", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_112" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men (besides the advancement and countenancing of them in general) are two—the reward and designation of readers in sciences already extant and invent...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men (besides the advancement and countenancing of them in general) are two—the reward and designation of readers in sciences already extant and invented; and the reward and designation of writers and inquirers concerning any parts of learning not suf", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_113" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "7. These are summarily the works and acts wherein the merits of many excellent princes and other worthy personages, have been conversant. As for any particular commemorations, I call to mind what Cice...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 7. These are summarily the works and acts wherein the merits of many excellent princes and other worthy personages, have been conversant. As for any particular commemorations, I call to mind what Cicero said when he gave general thanks, _Difficile non aliquem_, _ingratum quenquam præterire_. Let us ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_114" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "8. First, therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large. For if men ju...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 8. First, therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large. For if men judge that learning should be referred to action, they judge well; but in this they fall into the erro", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_115" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "9. And because founders of colleges do plant, and founders of lectures do water, it followeth well in order to speak of the defect which is in public lectures; namely, in the smallness, and meanness o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 9. And because founders of colleges do plant, and founders of lectures do water, it followeth well in order to speak of the defect which is in public lectures; namely, in the smallness, and meanness of the salary or reward which in most places is assigned unto them, whether they be lectures of arts,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_116" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "10. Another defect I note, wherein I shall need some alchemist to help me, who call upon men to sell their books, and to build furnaces; quitting and forsaking Minerva and the Muses as barren virgins,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 10. Another defect I note, wherein I shall need some alchemist to help me, who call upon men to sell their books, and to build furnaces; quitting and forsaking Minerva and the Muses as barren virgins, and relying upon Vulcan. But certain it is, that unto the deep, fruitful, and operative study of ma", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_117" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "11. And if Alexander made such a liberal assignation to Aristotle of treasure for the allowance of hunters, fowlers, fishers, and the like, that he might compile a history of nature, much better do th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 11. And if Alexander made such a liberal assignation to Aristotle of treasure for the allowance of hunters, fowlers, fishers, and the like, that he might compile a history of nature, much better do they deserve it that travail in arts of nature.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_118" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "12. Another defect which I note is an intermission or neglect in those which are governors in universities, of consultation, and in princes or superior persons, of visitation: to enter into account an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 12. Another defect which I note is an intermission or neglect in those which are governors in universities, of consultation, and in princes or superior persons, of visitation: to enter into account and consideration, whether the readings, exercises, and other customs appertaining unto learning, anci", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_119" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "13. Another defect which I note ascendeth a little higher than the precedent. For as the proficience of learning consisteth much in the orders and institutions of universities in the same states and k...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 13. Another defect which I note ascendeth a little higher than the precedent. For as the proficience of learning consisteth much in the orders and institutions of universities in the same states and kingdoms, so it would be yet more advanced, if there were more intelligence mutual between the univer", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_120" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "14. The last defect which I will note is, that there hath not been, or very rarely been, any public designation of writers or inquirers concerning such parts of knowledge as may appear not to have bee...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 14. The last defect which I will note is, that there hath not been, or very rarely been, any public designation of writers or inquirers concerning such parts of knowledge as may appear not to have been already sufficiently laboured or undertaken; unto which point it is an inducement to enter into a ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_121" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "15. The removing of all the defects formerly enumerate, except the last, and of the active part also of the last (which is the designation of writers), are _opera basilica_; towards which the endeavou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 15. The removing of all the defects formerly enumerate, except the last, and of the active part also of the last (which is the designation of writers), are _opera basilica_; towards which the endeavours of a private man may be but as an image in a crossway, that may point at the way, but cannot go i", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_122" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In the handling and undertaking of which work I am not ignorant what it is that I do now move and attempt, nor insensible of mine own weakness to sustain my purpose. But my hope is, that if my extreme...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the handling and undertaking of which work I am not ignorant what it is that I do now move and attempt, nor insensible of mine own weakness to sustain my purpose. But my hope is, that if my extreme love to learning carry me too far, I may obtain the excuse of affection; for that “It is not grante", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_123" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I. (1) The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man’s understanding, which is the seat of learning: history to his memory, poesy to his imagination, and philosophy to his reaso...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I. (1) The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man’s understanding, which is the seat of learning: history to his memory, poesy to his imagination, and philosophy to his reason. Divine learning receiveth the same distribution; for, the spirit of man is the same, though the r", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_124" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) History is natural, civil, ecclesiastical, and literary; whereof the first three I allow as extant, the fourth I note as deficient. For no man hath propounded to himself the general state of learn...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) History is natural, civil, ecclesiastical, and literary; whereof the first three I allow as extant, the fourth I note as deficient. For no man hath propounded to himself the general state of learning to be described and represented from age to age, as many have done the works of Nature, and the ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_125" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) History of Nature is of three sorts; of Nature in course, of Nature erring or varying, and of Nature altered or wrought; that is, history of creatures, history of marvels, and history of arts. The...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) History of Nature is of three sorts; of Nature in course, of Nature erring or varying, and of Nature altered or wrought; that is, history of creatures, history of marvels, and history of arts. The first of these no doubt is extant, and that in good perfection; the two latter are bandied so weakl", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_126" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) The use of this work, honoured with a precedent in Aristotle, is nothing less than to give contentment to the appetite of curious and vain wits, as the manner of Mirabilaries is to do; but for two...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) The use of this work, honoured with a precedent in Aristotle, is nothing less than to give contentment to the appetite of curious and vain wits, as the manner of Mirabilaries is to do; but for two reasons, both of great weight: the one to correct the partiality of axioms and opinions, which are ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_127" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) For history of Nature, wrought or mechanical, I find some collections made of agriculture, and likewise of manual arts; but commonly with a rejection of experiments familiar and vulgar; for it is ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) For history of Nature, wrought or mechanical, I find some collections made of agriculture, and likewise of manual arts; but commonly with a rejection of experiments familiar and vulgar; for it is esteemed a kind of dishonour unto learning to descend to inquiry or meditation upon matters mechanic", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_128" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) But if my judgment be of any weight, the use of history mechanical is of all others the most radical and fundamental towards natural philosophy; such natural philosophy as shall not vanish in the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) But if my judgment be of any weight, the use of history mechanical is of all others the most radical and fundamental towards natural philosophy; such natural philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtle, sublime, or delectable speculation, but such as shall be operative to the endowment ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_129" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "II. (1) For civil history, it is of three kinds; not unfitly to be compared with the three kinds of pictures or images. For of pictures or images we see some are unfinished, some are perfect, and some...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: II. (1) For civil history, it is of three kinds; not unfitly to be compared with the three kinds of pictures or images. For of pictures or images we see some are unfinished, some are perfect, and some are defaced. So of histories we may find three kinds: memorials, perfect histories, and antiquities", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_130" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Memorials, or preparatory history, are of two sorts; whereof the one may be termed commentaries, and the other registers. Commentaries are they which set down a continuance of the naked events and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Memorials, or preparatory history, are of two sorts; whereof the one may be termed commentaries, and the other registers. Commentaries are they which set down a continuance of the naked events and actions, without the motives or designs, the counsels, the speeches, the pretexts, the occasions, a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_131" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, _tanquam tabula naufragii_: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, _tanquam tabula naufragii_: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that con", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_132" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) In these kinds of unperfect histories I do assign no deficience, for they are _tanquam imperfecte mista_; and therefore any deficience in them is but their nature. As for the corruptions and moths...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) In these kinds of unperfect histories I do assign no deficience, for they are _tanquam imperfecte mista_; and therefore any deficience in them is but their nature. As for the corruptions and moths of history, which are epitomes, the use of them deserveth to be banished, as all men of sound judgm", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_133" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) History, which may be called just and perfect history, is of three kinds, according to the object which it propoundeth, or pretendeth to represent: for it either representeth a time, or a person, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) History, which may be called just and perfect history, is of three kinds, according to the object which it propoundeth, or pretendeth to represent: for it either representeth a time, or a person, or an action.\nThe first we call chronicles, the second lives, and the third narrations or relations.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_134" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) For the history of times, I mean of civil history, the providence of God hath made the distribution. For it hath pleased God to ordain and illustrate two exemplar states of the world for arms, lea...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) For the history of times, I mean of civil history, the providence of God hath made the distribution. For it hath pleased God to ordain and illustrate two exemplar states of the world for arms, learning, moral virtue, policy, and laws; the state of Græcia and the state of Rome; the histories wher", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_135" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Now to speak of the deficiences. As to the heathen antiquities of the world it is in vain to note them for deficient. Deficient they are no doubt, consisting most of fables and fragments; but the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Now to speak of the deficiences. As to the heathen antiquities of the world it is in vain to note them for deficient. Deficient they are no doubt, consisting most of fables and fragments; but the deficience cannot be holpen; for antiquity is like fame, _caput inter nubila condit_, her head is mu", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_136" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) But for modern histories, whereof there are some few very worthy, but the greater part beneath mediocrity, leaving the care of foreign stories to foreign states, because I will not be _curiosus in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) But for modern histories, whereof there are some few very worthy, but the greater part beneath mediocrity, leaving the care of foreign stories to foreign states, because I will not be _curiosus in aliena republica_, I cannot fail to represent to your Majesty the unworthiness of the history of En", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_137" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) For lives, I do find strange that these times have so little esteemed the virtues of the times, as that the writings of lives should be no more frequent. For although there be not many sovereign p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) For lives, I do find strange that these times have so little esteemed the virtues of the times, as that the writings of lives should be no more frequent. For although there be not many sovereign princes or absolute commanders, and that states are most collected into monarchies, yet are there man", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_138" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "which opinion cometh from that root, _Non prius laudes contempsimus_, _quam laudanda facere desivimus_: yet that will not alter Solomon’s judgment, _Memoria justi cum laudibus_, _at impiorum nomen put...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: which opinion cometh from that root, _Non prius laudes contempsimus_, _quam laudanda facere desivimus_: yet that will not alter Solomon’s judgment, _Memoria justi cum laudibus_, _at impiorum nomen putrescet_: the one flourisheth, the other either consumeth to present oblivion, or turneth to an ill o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_139" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) For narrations and relations of particular actions, there were also to be wished a greater diligence therein; for there is no great action but hath some good pen which attends it. And because it ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) For narrations and relations of particular actions, there were also to be wished a greater diligence therein; for there is no great action but hath some good pen which attends it. And because it is an ability not common to write a good history, as may well appear by the small number of them; ye", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_140" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) There is yet another partition of history which Cornelius Tacitus maketh, which is not to be forgotten, specially with that application which he accoupleth it withal, annals and journals: appropr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) There is yet another partition of history which Cornelius Tacitus maketh, which is not to be forgotten, specially with that application which he accoupleth it withal, annals and journals: appropriating to the former matters of estate, and to the latter acts and accidents of a meaner nature. For", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_141" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) I cannot likewise be ignorant of a form of writing which some grave and wise men have used, containing a scattered history of those actions which they have thought worthy of memory, with politic ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) I cannot likewise be ignorant of a form of writing which some grave and wise men have used, containing a scattered history of those actions which they have thought worthy of memory, with politic discourse and observation thereupon: not incorporate into the history, but separately, and as the mo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_142" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) So also is there another kind of history manifoldly mixed, and that is history of cosmography: being compounded of natural history, in respect of the regions themselves; of history civil, in resp...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) So also is there another kind of history manifoldly mixed, and that is history of cosmography: being compounded of natural history, in respect of the regions themselves; of history civil, in respect of the habitations, regiments, and manners of the people; and the mathematics, in respect of the", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_143" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "yet that might be by demonstration, and not in fact; and if by travel, it requireth the voyage but of half the globe. But to circle the earth, as the heavenly bodies do, was not done nor enterprised t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: yet that might be by demonstration, and not in fact; and if by travel, it requireth the voyage but of half the globe. But to circle the earth, as the heavenly bodies do, was not done nor enterprised till these later times: and therefore these times may justly bear in their word, not only _plus ultra", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_144" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "but likewise _imitabile cælum_; in respect of the many memorable voyages after the manner of heaven about the globe of the earth.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: but likewise _imitabile cælum_; in respect of the many memorable voyages after the manner of heaven about the globe of the earth.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_145" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may plant also an expectation of the further proficience and augmentation of all sciences; because it may seem they are ordained by God to be co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may plant also an expectation of the further proficience and augmentation of all sciences; because it may seem they are ordained by God to be coevals, that is, to meet in one age. For so the prophet Daniel speaking of the latter times foretelle", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_146" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "III. (1) History ecclesiastical receiveth the same divisions with history civil: but further in the propriety thereof may be divided into the history of the Church, by a general name; history of proph...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: III. (1) History ecclesiastical receiveth the same divisions with history civil: but further in the propriety thereof may be divided into the history of the Church, by a general name; history of prophecy; and history of providence. The first describeth the times of the militant Church, whether it be", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_147" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) The second, which is history of prophecy, consisteth of two relatives—the prophecy and the accomplishment; and, therefore, the nature of such a work ought to be, that every prophecy of the Scriptu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) The second, which is history of prophecy, consisteth of two relatives—the prophecy and the accomplishment; and, therefore, the nature of such a work ought to be, that every prophecy of the Scripture be sorted with the event fulfilling the same throughout the ages of the world, both for the bette", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_148" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) The third, which is history of Providence, containeth that excellent correspondence which is between God’s revealed will and His secret will; which though it be so obscure, as for the most part it...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) The third, which is history of Providence, containeth that excellent correspondence which is between God’s revealed will and His secret will; which though it be so obscure, as for the most part it is not legible to the natural man—no, nor many times to those that behold it from the tabernacle—ye", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_149" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) There are also other parts of learning which are appendices to history. For all the exterior proceedings of man consist of words and deeds, whereof history doth properly receive and retain in memo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) There are also other parts of learning which are appendices to history. For all the exterior proceedings of man consist of words and deeds, whereof history doth properly receive and retain in memory the deeds; and if words, yet but as inducements and passages to deeds; so are there other books a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_150" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Thus much therefore concerning history, which is that part of learning which answereth to one of the cells, domiciles, or offices of the mind of man, which is that of the memory.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Thus much therefore concerning history, which is that part of learning which answereth to one of the cells, domiciles, or offices of the mind of man, which is that of the memory.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_151" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IV. (1) Poesy is a part of learning in measure of words, for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IV. (1) Poesy is a part of learning in measure of words, for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature ha", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_152" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a mo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_153" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) The division of poesy which is aptest in the propriety thereof (besides those divisions which are common unto it with history, as feigned chronicles, feigned lives, and the appendices of history, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) The division of poesy which is aptest in the propriety thereof (besides those divisions which are common unto it with history, as feigned chronicles, feigned lives, and the appendices of history, as feigned epistles, feigned orations, and the rest) is into poesy narrative, representative, and al", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_154" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) But there remaineth yet another use of poesy parabolical, opposite to that which we last mentioned; for that tendeth to demonstrate and illustrate that which is taught or delivered, and this other...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) But there remaineth yet another use of poesy parabolical, opposite to that which we last mentioned; for that tendeth to demonstrate and illustrate that which is taught or delivered, and this other to retire and obscure it—that is, when the secrets and mysteries of religion, policy, or philosophy", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_155" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Expounded that when princes and monarchs have suppressed actual and open rebels, then the malignity of people (which is the mother of rebellion) doth bring forth libels and slanders, and taxations of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Expounded that when princes and monarchs have suppressed actual and open rebels, then the malignity of people (which is the mother of rebellion) doth bring forth libels and slanders, and taxations of the states, which is of the same kind with rebellion but more feminine. So in the fable that the res", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_157" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience; for being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad mo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience; for being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind. But to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expressing of affections, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_158" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "V. (1) The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation. The light o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: V. (1) The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation. The light of nature consisteth in the notions of the mind and the reports of the senses; for as for knowledge w", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_159" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) In philosophy the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to nature, or are reflected or reverted upon himself.\nOut of which several inquiries there do arise three ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) In philosophy the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to nature, or are reflected or reverted upon himself.\nOut of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges—divine philosophy, natural philosophy, and human philosophy or humanity. For all things a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_160" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Now that there are many of that kind need not be doubted. For example: Is not the rule, _Si inœqualibus æqualia addas_, _omnia erunt inæqualia_, an axiom as well of justice as of the mathematics? ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Now that there are many of that kind need not be doubted. For example: Is not the rule, _Si inœqualibus æqualia addas_, _omnia erunt inæqualia_, an axiom as well of justice as of the mathematics? and is there not a true coincidence between commutative and distributive justice, and arithmetical a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_161" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Are not the organs of the senses of one kind with the organs of reflection, the eye with a glass, the ear with a cave or strait, determined and bounded? Neither are these only similitudes, as men of n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Are not the organs of the senses of one kind with the organs of reflection, the eye with a glass, the ear with a cave or strait, determined and bounded? Neither are these only similitudes, as men of narrow observation may conceive them to be, but the same footsteps of nature, treading or printing up", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_162" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VI. (1) This science being therefore first placed as a common parent like unto Berecynthia, which had so much heavenly issue, _omnes cœlicolas_, _omnes supera alta tenetes_; we may return to the forme...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VI. (1) This science being therefore first placed as a common parent like unto Berecynthia, which had so much heavenly issue, _omnes cœlicolas_, _omnes supera alta tenetes_; we may return to the former distribution of the three philosophies—divine, natural, and human. And as concerning divine philos", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_163" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Otherwise it is of the nature of angels and spirits, which is an appendix of theology, both divine and natural, and is neither inscrutable nor interdicted. For although the Scripture saith, “Let n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Otherwise it is of the nature of angels and spirits, which is an appendix of theology, both divine and natural, and is neither inscrutable nor interdicted. For although the Scripture saith, “Let no man deceive you in sublime discourse touching the worship of angels, pressing into that he knoweth", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_164" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VII. (1) Leaving therefore divine philosophy or natural theology (not divinity or inspired theology, which we reserve for the last of all as the haven and sabbath of all man’s contemplations) we will ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VII. (1) Leaving therefore divine philosophy or natural theology (not divinity or inspired theology, which we reserve for the last of all as the haven and sabbath of all man’s contemplations) we will now proceed to natural philosophy. If then it be true that Democritus said, “That the truth of natur", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_165" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Natural science or theory is divided into physic and metaphysic; wherein I desire it may be conceived that I use the word metaphysic in a differing sense from that that is received. And in like ma...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Natural science or theory is divided into physic and metaphysic; wherein I desire it may be conceived that I use the word metaphysic in a differing sense from that that is received. And in like manner, I doubt not but it will easily appear to men of judgment, that in this and other particulars, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_166" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But to me, on the other side, that do desire as much as lieth in my pen to ground a sociable intercourse between antiquity and proficience, it seemeth best to keep way with antiquity _usque ad aras_; ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But to me, on the other side, that do desire as much as lieth in my pen to ground a sociable intercourse between antiquity and proficience, it seemeth best to keep way with antiquity _usque ad aras_; and, therefore, to retain the ancient terms, though I sometimes alter the uses and definitions, acco", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_167" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) To return, therefore, to the use and acception of the term metaphysic as I do now understand the word; it appeareth, by that which hath been already said, that I intend _philosophia prima_, summar...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) To return, therefore, to the use and acception of the term metaphysic as I do now understand the word; it appeareth, by that which hath been already said, that I intend _philosophia prima_, summary philosophy and metaphysic, which heretofore have been confounded as one, to be two distinct things", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_168" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Physic (taking it according to the derivation, and not according to our idiom for medicine) is situate in a middle term or distance between natural history and metaphysic. For natural history desc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Physic (taking it according to the derivation, and not according to our idiom for medicine) is situate in a middle term or distance between natural history and metaphysic. For natural history describeth the variety of things; physic the causes, but variable or respective causes; and metaphysic t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_169" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Fire is the cause of induration, but respective to clay; fire is the cause of colliquation, but respective to wax. But fire is no constant cause either of induration or colliquation; so then the physi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Fire is the cause of induration, but respective to clay; fire is the cause of colliquation, but respective to wax. But fire is no constant cause either of induration or colliquation; so then the physical causes are but the efficient and the matter. Physic hath three parts, whereof two respect nature", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_170" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) For metaphysic, we have assigned unto it the inquiry of formal and final causes; which assignation, as to the former of them, may seem to be nugatory and void, because of the received and invetera...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) For metaphysic, we have assigned unto it the inquiry of formal and final causes; which assignation, as to the former of them, may seem to be nugatory and void, because of the received and inveterate opinion, that the inquisition of man is not competent to find out essential forms or true differe", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_171" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) But the use of this part of metaphysic, which I report as deficient, is of the rest the most excellent in two respects: the one, because it is the duty and virtue of all knowledge to abridge the i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) But the use of this part of metaphysic, which I report as deficient, is of the rest the most excellent in two respects: the one, because it is the duty and virtue of all knowledge to abridge the infinity of individual experience, as much as the conception of truth will permit, and to remedy the ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_172" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But to those which refer all things to the glory of God, they are as the three acclamations, _Sante_, _sancte_, _sancte_! holy in the description or dilatation of His works; holy in the connection or ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But to those which refer all things to the glory of God, they are as the three acclamations, _Sante_, _sancte_, _sancte_! holy in the description or dilatation of His works; holy in the connection or concatenation of them; and holy in the union of them in a perpetual and uniform law. And, therefore,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_173" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) The second part of metaphysic is the inquiry of final causes, which I am moved to report not as omitted, but as misplaced. And yet if it were but a fault in order, I would not speak of it; for ord...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) The second part of metaphysic is the inquiry of final causes, which I am moved to report not as omitted, but as misplaced. And yet if it were but a fault in order, I would not speak of it; for order is matter of illustration, but pertaineth not to the substance of sciences. But this misplacing h", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_174" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VIII. (1) Nevertheless, there remaineth yet another part of natural philosophy, which is commonly made a principal part, and holdeth rank with physic special and metaphysic, which is mathematic; but I...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VIII. (1) Nevertheless, there remaineth yet another part of natural philosophy, which is commonly made a principal part, and holdeth rank with physic special and metaphysic, which is mathematic; but I think it more agreeable to the nature of things, and to the light of order, to place it as a branch", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_175" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) The mathematics are either pure or mixed. To the pure mathematics are those sciences belonging which handle quantity determinate, merely severed from any axioms of natural philosophy; and these ar...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) The mathematics are either pure or mixed. To the pure mathematics are those sciences belonging which handle quantity determinate, merely severed from any axioms of natural philosophy; and these are two, geometry and arithmetic, the one handling quantity continued, and the other dissevered. Mixed", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_176" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) For natural prudence, or the part operative of natural philosophy, we will divide it into three parts—experimental, philosophical, and magical; which three parts active have a correspondence and a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) For natural prudence, or the part operative of natural philosophy, we will divide it into three parts—experimental, philosophical, and magical; which three parts active have a correspondence and analogy with the three parts speculative, natural history, physic, and metaphysic. For many operation", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_177" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Thus have I passed through natural philosophy and the deficiences thereof; wherein if I have differed from the ancient and received doctrines, and thereby shall move contradiction, for my part, as...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Thus have I passed through natural philosophy and the deficiences thereof; wherein if I have differed from the ancient and received doctrines, and thereby shall move contradiction, for my part, as I affect not to dissent, so I purpose not to contend. If it be truth,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_178" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "the voice of Nature will consent, whether the voice of man do or no. And as Alexander Borgia was wont to say of the expedition of the French for Naples, that they came with chalk in their hands to mar...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: the voice of Nature will consent, whether the voice of man do or no. And as Alexander Borgia was wont to say of the expedition of the French for Naples, that they came with chalk in their hands to mark up their lodgings, and not with weapons to fight; so I like better that entry of truth which comet", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_179" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) But there remaineth a division of natural philosophy according to the report of the inquiry, and nothing concerning the matter or subject: and that is positive and considerative, when the inquiry ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) But there remaineth a division of natural philosophy according to the report of the inquiry, and nothing concerning the matter or subject: and that is positive and considerative, when the inquiry reporteth either an assertion or a doubt. These doubts or _non liquets_ are of two sorts, particular", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_180" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Thus have we now dealt with two of the three beams of man’s knowledge; that is _radius directus_, which is referred to nature, _radius refractus_, which is referred to God, and cannot report truly...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Thus have we now dealt with two of the three beams of man’s knowledge; that is _radius directus_, which is referred to nature, _radius refractus_, which is referred to God, and cannot report truly because of the inequality of the medium. There resteth _radius reflexus_, whereby man beholdeth and", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_181" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IX. (1) We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IX. (1) We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly. This knowledge, as it is the end and term of natural philosophy in the intention of man,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_182" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) This knowledge hath two branches: for as all leagues and amities consist of mutual intelligence and mutual offices, so this league of mind and body hath these two parts: how the one discloseth the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) This knowledge hath two branches: for as all leagues and amities consist of mutual intelligence and mutual offices, so this league of mind and body hath these two parts: how the one discloseth the other, and how the one worketh upon the other; discovery and impression. The former of these hath b", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_183" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) The latter branch, touching impression, hath not been collected into art, but hath been handled dispersedly; and it hath the same relation or _antistrophe_ that the former hath. For the considerat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) The latter branch, touching impression, hath not been collected into art, but hath been handled dispersedly; and it hath the same relation or _antistrophe_ that the former hath. For the consideration is double—either how and how far the humours and affects of the body do alter or work upon the m", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_184" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "X. (1) The knowledge that concerneth man’s body is divided as the good of man’s body is divided, unto which it referreth. The good of man’s body is of four kinds—health, beauty, strength, and pleasure...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: X. (1) The knowledge that concerneth man’s body is divided as the good of man’s body is divided, unto which it referreth. The good of man’s body is of four kinds—health, beauty, strength, and pleasure: so the knowledges are medicine, or art of cure; art of decoration, which is called cosmetic; art o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_185" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) To speak, therefore, of medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher: the ancient opinion that man was _microcosmus_—an abstract or model of the world—hath been fantastical...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) To speak, therefore, of medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher: the ancient opinion that man was _microcosmus_—an abstract or model of the world—hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in man’s body certain cor", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_186" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So that it is no marvel though the soul so placed enjoy no rest, if that principle be true, that _Motus rerum est rapidus extra locum_, _placidus in loco_. But to the purpose. This variable compositio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So that it is no marvel though the soul so placed enjoy no rest, if that principle be true, that _Motus rerum est rapidus extra locum_, _placidus in loco_. But to the purpose. This variable composition of man’s body hath made it as an instrument easy to distemper; and, therefore, the poets did well ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_187" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For in all times, in the opinion of the multitude, witches and old women and impostors, have had a competition with physicians. And what followeth? Even this, that physicians say to themselves, as Sol...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For in all times, in the opinion of the multitude, witches and old women and impostors, have had a competition with physicians. And what followeth? Even this, that physicians say to themselves, as Solomon expresseth it upon a higher occasion, “If it befall to me as befalleth to the fools, why should", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_188" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Which that they should do, the nobleness of their art doth deserve: well shadowed by the poets, in that they made Æsculapius to be the son of [the] sun, the one being the fountain of life, the other a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Which that they should do, the nobleness of their art doth deserve: well shadowed by the poets, in that they made Æsculapius to be the son of [the] sun, the one being the fountain of life, the other as the second-stream; but infinitely more honoured by the example of our Saviour, who made the body o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_189" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progress...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occa", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_190" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used to set down a narrative of the special cases of his patients, and how they proceeded, and how they w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used to set down a narrative of the special cases of his patients, and how they proceeded, and how they were judged by recovery or death. Therefore having an example proper in the father of the art, I shal", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_191" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) In the inquiry which is made by anatomy, I find much deficience: for they inquire of the parts, and their substances, figures, and collocations; but they inquire not of the diversities of the part...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) In the inquiry which is made by anatomy, I find much deficience: for they inquire of the parts, and their substances, figures, and collocations; but they inquire not of the diversities of the parts, the secrecies of the passages, and the seats or nestling of the humours, nor much of the footstep", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_192" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) In the inquiry of diseases, they do abandon the cures of many, some as in their nature incurable, and others as past the period of cure; so that Sylla and the Triumvirs never proscribed so many me...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) In the inquiry of diseases, they do abandon the cures of many, some as in their nature incurable, and others as past the period of cure; so that Sylla and the Triumvirs never proscribed so many men to die, as they do by their ignorant edicts: whereof numbers do escape with less difficulty than t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_193" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Nay further, I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors; and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Nay further, I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors; and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a fair and easy passage. For it is no small felicity which Augustus Cæsar was wont to wish to h", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_194" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) In the consideration of the cures of diseases, I find a deficience in the receipts of propriety, respecting the particular cures of diseases: for the physicians have frustrated the fruit of tradit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) In the consideration of the cures of diseases, I find a deficience in the receipts of propriety, respecting the particular cures of diseases: for the physicians have frustrated the fruit of tradition and experience by their magistralities, in adding and taking out and changing _quid pro qua_ in ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_195" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) In preparation of medicines I do find strange, specially considering how mineral medicines have been extolled, and that they are safer for the outward than inward parts, that no man hath sought to...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) In preparation of medicines I do find strange, specially considering how mineral medicines have been extolled, and that they are safer for the outward than inward parts, that no man hath sought to make an imitation by art of natural baths and medicinable fountains: which nevertheless are confess", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_196" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) But lest I grow to be more particular than is agreeable either to my intention or to proportion, I will conclude this part with the note of one deficience more, which seemeth to me of greatest co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) But lest I grow to be more particular than is agreeable either to my intention or to proportion, I will conclude this part with the note of one deficience more, which seemeth to me of greatest consequence: which is, that the prescripts in use are too compendious to attain their end; for, to my ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_197" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) For cosmetic, it hath parts civil, and parts effeminate: for cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. As for artificial decoration...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) For cosmetic, it hath parts civil, and parts effeminate: for cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. As for artificial decoration, it is well worthy of the deficiences which it hath; being neither fine enough to deceive, nor hand", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_198" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) For athletic, I take the subject of it largely, that is to say, for any point of ability whereunto the body of man may be brought, whether it be of activity, or of patience; whereof activity hath...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) For athletic, I take the subject of it largely, that is to say, for any point of ability whereunto the body of man may be brought, whether it be of activity, or of patience; whereof activity hath two parts, strength and swiftness; and patience likewise hath two parts, hardness against wants and", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_199" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) For arts of pleasure sensual, the chief deficience in them is of laws to repress them. For as it hath been well observed, that the arts which flourish in times while virtue is in growth, are mili...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) For arts of pleasure sensual, the chief deficience in them is of laws to repress them. For as it hath been well observed, that the arts which flourish in times while virtue is in growth, are military; and while virtue is in state, are liberal; and while virtue is in declination, are voluptuary:", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_200" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XI. (1) For human knowledge which concerns the mind, it hath two parts; the one that inquireth of the substance or nature of the soul or mind, the other that inquireth of the faculties or functions th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XI. (1) For human knowledge which concerns the mind, it hath two parts; the one that inquireth of the substance or nature of the soul or mind, the other that inquireth of the faculties or functions thereof. Unto the first of these, the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_201" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Divination hath been anciently and fitly divided into artificial and natural: whereof artificial is, when the mind maketh a prediction by argument, concluding upon signs and tokens; natural is, wh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Divination hath been anciently and fitly divided into artificial and natural: whereof artificial is, when the mind maketh a prediction by argument, concluding upon signs and tokens; natural is, when the mind hath a presention by an internal power, without the inducement of a sign.\nArtificial is ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_202" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Fascination is the power and act of imagination intensive upon other bodies than the body of the imaginant, for of that we spake in the proper place. Wherein the school of Paracelsus, and the disc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Fascination is the power and act of imagination intensive upon other bodies than the body of the imaginant, for of that we spake in the proper place. Wherein the school of Paracelsus, and the disciples of pretended natural magic, have been so intemperate, as they have exalted the power of the im", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_203" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XII. (1) The knowledge which respecteth the faculties of the mind of man is of two kinds—the one respecting his understanding and reason, and the other his will, appetite, and affection; whereof the f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XII. (1) The knowledge which respecteth the faculties of the mind of man is of two kinds—the one respecting his understanding and reason, and the other his will, appetite, and affection; whereof the former produceth position or decree, the latter action or execution. It is true that the imagination ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_204" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Neither is the imagination simply and only a messenger; but is invested with, or at least wise usurpeth no small authority in itself, besides the duty of the message. For it was well said by Aristotle...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Neither is the imagination simply and only a messenger; but is invested with, or at least wise usurpeth no small authority in itself, besides the duty of the message. For it was well said by Aristotle, “That the mind hath over the body that commandment, which the lord hath over a bondman; but that r", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_205" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) The part of human philosophy which is rational is of all knowledges, to the most wits, the least delightful, and seemeth but a net of subtlety and spinosity. For as it was truly said, that knowled...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) The part of human philosophy which is rational is of all knowledges, to the most wits, the least delightful, and seemeth but a net of subtlety and spinosity. For as it was truly said, that knowledge is _pabulum animi_; so in the nature of men’s appetite to this food most men are of the taste and", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_206" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) The arts intellectual are four in number, divided according to the ends whereunto they are referred—for man’s labour is to invent that which is sought or propounded; or to judge that which is inve...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) The arts intellectual are four in number, divided according to the ends whereunto they are referred—for man’s labour is to invent that which is sought or propounded; or to judge that which is invented; or to retain that which is judged; or to deliver over that which is retained. So as the arts m", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_207" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIII. (1) Invention is of two kinds much differing—the one of arts and sciences, and the other of speech and arguments. The former of these I do report deficient; which seemeth to me to be such a defi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIII. (1) Invention is of two kinds much differing—the one of arts and sciences, and the other of speech and arguments. The former of these I do report deficient; which seemeth to me to be such a deficience as if, in the making of an inventory touching the state of a defunct, it should be set down t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_208" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) That this part of knowledge is wanting, to my judgment standeth plainly confessed; for first, logic doth not pretend to invent sciences, or the axioms of sciences, but passeth it over with a _cuiq...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) That this part of knowledge is wanting, to my judgment standeth plainly confessed; for first, logic doth not pretend to invent sciences, or the axioms of sciences, but passeth it over with a _cuique in sua arte credendum_. And Celsus acknowledgeth it gravely, speaking of the empirical and dogmat", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_209" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "“Dictamnum genetrix Cretæa carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem foliis et flore camantem Purpureo; non illa feris incognita capris Gramina, cum tergo volucres hæsere sagittæ.”", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: “Dictamnum genetrix Cretæa carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem foliis et flore camantem Purpureo; non illa feris incognita capris Gramina, cum tergo volucres hæsere sagittæ.”", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_210" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So that it was no marvel (the manner of antiquity being to consecrate inventors) that the Egyptians had so few human idols in their temples, but almost all brute:", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So that it was no marvel (the manner of antiquity being to consecrate inventors) that the Egyptians had so few human idols in their temples, but almost all brute:", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_211" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And if you like better the tradition of the Grecians, and ascribe the first inventions to men, yet you will rather believe that Prometheus first stroke the flints, and marvelled at the spark, than tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And if you like better the tradition of the Grecians, and ascribe the first inventions to men, yet you will rather believe that Prometheus first stroke the flints, and marvelled at the spark, than that when he first stroke the flints he expected the spark; and therefore we see the West Indian Promet", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_213" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For if you observe the words well, it is no other method than that which brute beasts are capable of, and do put in ure; which is a perpetual intending or practising some one thing, urged and imposed ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For if you observe the words well, it is no other method than that which brute beasts are capable of, and do put in ure; which is a perpetual intending or practising some one thing, urged and imposed by an absolute necessity of conservation of being. For so Cicero saith very truly, _Usus uni rei ded", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_214" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "it is likewise said of beasts, _Quis psittaco docuit suum χαιρε_? Who taught the raven in a drought to throw pebbles into a hollow tree, where she spied water, that the water might rise so as she migh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: it is likewise said of beasts, _Quis psittaco docuit suum χαιρε_? Who taught the raven in a drought to throw pebbles into a hollow tree, where she spied water, that the water might rise so as she might come to it? Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast sea or air, and to find the way from a ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_215" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Secondly, the induction which the logicians speak of, and which seemeth familiar with Plato, whereby the principles of sciences may be pretended to be invented, and so the middle propositions by d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Secondly, the induction which the logicians speak of, and which seemeth familiar with Plato, whereby the principles of sciences may be pretended to be invented, and so the middle propositions by derivation from the principles; their form of induction, I say, is utterly vicious and incompetent; w", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_216" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Thirdly, allow some principles or axioms were rightly induced, yet, nevertheless, certain it is that middle propositions cannot be deduced from them in subject of nature by syllogism—that is, by t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Thirdly, allow some principles or axioms were rightly induced, yet, nevertheless, certain it is that middle propositions cannot be deduced from them in subject of nature by syllogism—that is, by touch and reduction of them to principles in a middle term. It is true that in sciences popular, as m", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_217" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) This part of invention, concerning the invention of sciences, I purpose (if God give me leave) hereafter to propound, having digested it into two parts: whereof the one I term _experientia literat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) This part of invention, concerning the invention of sciences, I purpose (if God give me leave) hereafter to propound, having digested it into two parts: whereof the one I term _experientia literata_, and the other _interpretatio naturæ_; the former being but a degree and rudiment of the latter. ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_218" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) The invention of speech or argument is not properly an invention; for to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know; and the use of this inve...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) The invention of speech or argument is not properly an invention; for to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know; and the use of this invention is no other but, out of the knowledge whereof our mind is already possessed to draw forth or c", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_219" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) To procure this ready use of knowledge there are two courses, preparation and suggestion. The former of these seemeth scarcely a part of knowledge, consisting rather of diligence than of any artif...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) To procure this ready use of knowledge there are two courses, preparation and suggestion. The former of these seemeth scarcely a part of knowledge, consisting rather of diligence than of any artificial erudition. And herein Aristotle wittily, but hurtfully, doth deride the sophists near his time", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_220" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) But the nature of the collection of this provision or preparatory store, though it be common both to logic and rhetoric, yet having made an entry of it here, where it came first to be spoken of, I...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) But the nature of the collection of this provision or preparatory store, though it be common both to logic and rhetoric, yet having made an entry of it here, where it came first to be spoken of, I think fit to refer over the further handling of it to rhetoric.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_221" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) The other part of invention, which I term suggestion, doth assign and direct us to certain marks, or places, which may excite our mind to return and produce such knowledge as it hath formerly coll...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) The other part of invention, which I term suggestion, doth assign and direct us to certain marks, or places, which may excite our mind to return and produce such knowledge as it hath formerly collected, to the end we may make use thereof. Neither is this use (truly taken) only to furnish argumen", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_222" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Nevertheless, topics are of two sorts, general and special. The general we have spoken to; but the particular hath been touched by some, but rejected generally as inartificial and variable. But l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Nevertheless, topics are of two sorts, general and special. The general we have spoken to; but the particular hath been touched by some, but rejected generally as inartificial and variable. But leaving the humour which hath reigned too much in the schools (which is, to be vainly subtle in a few", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_223" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIV. (1) Now we pass unto the arts of judgment, which handle the natures of proofs and demonstrations, which as to induction hath a coincidence with invention; for all inductions, whether in good or v...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIV. (1) Now we pass unto the arts of judgment, which handle the natures of proofs and demonstrations, which as to induction hath a coincidence with invention; for all inductions, whether in good or vicious form, the same action of the mind which inventeth, judgeth—all one as in the sense.\nBut other", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_224" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) For the other judgment by syllogism, as it is a thing most agreeable to the mind of man, so it hath been vehemently end excellently laboured.\nFor the nature of man doth extremely covet to have som...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) For the other judgment by syllogism, as it is a thing most agreeable to the mind of man, so it hath been vehemently end excellently laboured.\nFor the nature of man doth extremely covet to have somewhat in his understanding fixed and unmovable, and as a rest and support of the mind.\nAnd, therefor", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_225" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) So, then, this art of judgment is but the reduction of propositions to principles in a middle term. The principles to be agreed by all and exempted from argument; the middle term to be elected at ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) So, then, this art of judgment is but the reduction of propositions to principles in a middle term. The principles to be agreed by all and exempted from argument; the middle term to be elected at the liberty of every man’s invention; the reduction to be of two kinds, direct and inverted: the one", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_226" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) But this art hath two several methods of doctrine, the one by way of direction, the other by way of caution: the former frameth and setteth down a true form of consequence, by the variations and d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) But this art hath two several methods of doctrine, the one by way of direction, the other by way of caution: the former frameth and setteth down a true form of consequence, by the variations and deflections from which errors and inconsequences may be exactly judged. Toward the composition and st", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_227" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) The second method of doctrine was introduced for expedite use and assurance sake, discovering the more subtle forms of sophisms and illaqueations with their redargutions, which is that which is te...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) The second method of doctrine was introduced for expedite use and assurance sake, discovering the more subtle forms of sophisms and illaqueations with their redargutions, which is that which is termed _elenches_. For although in the more gross sorts of fallacies it happeneth (as Seneca maketh th", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_228" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) This part concerning _elenches_ is excellently handled by Aristotle in precept, but more excellently by Plato in example; not only in the persons of the sophists, but even in Socrates himself, who...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) This part concerning _elenches_ is excellently handled by Aristotle in precept, but more excellently by Plato in example; not only in the persons of the sophists, but even in Socrates himself, who, professing to affirm nothing, but to infirm that which was affirmed by another, hath exactly expre", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_229" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) But yet further, this doctrine of elenches hath a more ample latitude and extent than is perceived; namely, unto divers parts of knowledge, whereof some are laboured and other omitted. For first, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) But yet further, this doctrine of elenches hath a more ample latitude and extent than is perceived; namely, unto divers parts of knowledge, whereof some are laboured and other omitted. For first, I conceive (though it may seem at first somewhat strange) that that part which is variably referred,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_230" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) Secondly, there is a seducement that worketh by the strength of the impression, and not by the subtlety of the illaqueation—not so much perplexing the reason, as overruling it by power of the imag...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) Secondly, there is a seducement that worketh by the strength of the impression, and not by the subtlety of the illaqueation—not so much perplexing the reason, as overruling it by power of the imagination. But this part I think more proper to handle when I shall speak of rhetoric.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_231" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) But lastly, there is yet a much more important and profound kind of fallacies in the mind of man, which I find not observed or inquired at all, and think good to place here, as that which of all o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) But lastly, there is yet a much more important and profound kind of fallacies in the mind of man, which I find not observed or inquired at all, and think good to place here, as that which of all others appertaineth most to rectify judgment, the force whereof is such as it doth not dazzle or snar", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_232" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Let us consider again the false appearances imposed upon us by every man’s own individual nature and custom in that feigned supposition that Plato maketh of the cave; for certainly if a child wer...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Let us consider again the false appearances imposed upon us by every man’s own individual nature and custom in that feigned supposition that Plato maketh of the cave; for certainly if a child were continued in a grot or cave under the earth until maturity of age, and came suddenly abroad, he wo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_233" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort; and although we think...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort; and although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well _loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes_, yet certa", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_234" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) There remaineth one part of judgment of great excellency which to mine understanding is so slightly touched, as I may report that also deficient; which is the application of the differing kinds o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) There remaineth one part of judgment of great excellency which to mine understanding is so slightly touched, as I may report that also deficient; which is the application of the differing kinds of proofs to the differing kinds of subjects. For there being but four kinds of demonstrations, that ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_235" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XV. (1) The custody or retaining of knowledge is either in writing or memory; whereof writing hath two parts, the nature of the character and the order of the entry. For the art of characters, or othe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XV. (1) The custody or retaining of knowledge is either in writing or memory; whereof writing hath two parts, the nature of the character and the order of the entry. For the art of characters, or other visible notes of words or things, it hath nearest conjugation with grammar, and, therefore, I refe", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_236" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) For the other principal part of the custody of knowledge, which is memory, I find that faculty in my judgment weakly inquired of. An art there is extant of it; but it seemeth to me that there are ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) For the other principal part of the custody of knowledge, which is memory, I find that faculty in my judgment weakly inquired of. An art there is extant of it; but it seemeth to me that there are better precepts than that art, and better practices of that art than those received. It is certain t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_237" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) This art of memory is but built upon two intentions; the one prenotion, the other emblem. Prenotion dischargeth the indefinite seeking of that we would remember, and directeth us to seek in a narr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) This art of memory is but built upon two intentions; the one prenotion, the other emblem. Prenotion dischargeth the indefinite seeking of that we would remember, and directeth us to seek in a narrow compass, that is, somewhat that hath congruity with our place of memory.\nEmblem reduceth conceits", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_238" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVI. (1) There remaineth the fourth kind of rational knowledge, which is transitive, concerning the expressing or transferring our knowledge to others, which I will term by the general name of traditi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVI. (1) There remaineth the fourth kind of rational knowledge, which is transitive, concerning the expressing or transferring our knowledge to others, which I will term by the general name of tradition or delivery.\nTradition hath three parts: the first concerning the organ of tradition; the second ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_239" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) For the organ of tradition, it is either speech or writing; for Aristotle saith well, “Words are the images of cogitations, and letters are the images of words.” But yet it is not of necessity tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) For the organ of tradition, it is either speech or writing; for Aristotle saith well, “Words are the images of cogitations, and letters are the images of words.” But yet it is not of necessity that cogitations be expressed by the medium of words. For whatsoever is capable of sufficient differenc", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_240" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) These notes of cogitations are of two sorts: the one when the note hath some similitude or congruity with the notion; the other _ad placitum_, having force only by contract or acceptation. Of the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) These notes of cogitations are of two sorts: the one when the note hath some similitude or congruity with the notion; the other _ad placitum_, having force only by contract or acceptation. Of the former sort are hieroglyphics and gestures. For as to hieroglyphics (things of ancient use and embra", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_241" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Concerning speech and words, the consideration of them hath produced the science of grammar. For man still striveth to reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from which by his fault he hath be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Concerning speech and words, the consideration of them hath produced the science of grammar. For man still striveth to reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from which by his fault he hath been deprived; and as he hath striven against the first general curse by the invention of all other ar", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_242" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Unto grammar also belongeth, as an appendix, the consideration of the accidents of words; which are measure, sound, and elevation or accent, and the sweetness and harshness of them: whence hath is...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Unto grammar also belongeth, as an appendix, the consideration of the accidents of words; which are measure, sound, and elevation or accent, and the sweetness and harshness of them: whence hath issued some curious observations in rhetoric, but chiefly poesy, as we consider it, in respect of the ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_243" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And of the servile expressing antiquity in an unlike and an unfit subject, it is well said, “_Quod tempore antiquum videtur_, _id incongruitate est maxime novum_.”", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And of the servile expressing antiquity in an unlike and an unfit subject, it is well said, “_Quod tempore antiquum videtur_, _id incongruitate est maxime novum_.”", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_244" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) For ciphers, they are commonly in letters or alphabets, but may be in words. The kinds of ciphers (besides the simple ciphers, with changes, and intermixtures of nulls and non-significants) are ma...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) For ciphers, they are commonly in letters or alphabets, but may be in words. The kinds of ciphers (besides the simple ciphers, with changes, and intermixtures of nulls and non-significants) are many, according to the nature or rule of the infolding, wheel-ciphers, key-ciphers, doubles, &c. But t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_245" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) In the enumeration of these private and retired arts it may be thought I seek to make a great muster-roll of sciences, naming them for show and ostentation, and to little other purpose. But let th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) In the enumeration of these private and retired arts it may be thought I seek to make a great muster-roll of sciences, naming them for show and ostentation, and to little other purpose. But let those, which are skilful in them, judge whether I bring them in only for appearance, or whether in tha", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_246" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVII. (1) For the method of tradition, I see it hath moved a controversy in our time. But as in civil business, if there be a meeting, and men fall at words, there is commonly an end of the matter for...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVII. (1) For the method of tradition, I see it hath moved a controversy in our time. But as in civil business, if there be a meeting, and men fall at words, there is commonly an end of the matter for that time, and no proceeding at all; so in learning, where there is much controversy, there is many", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_247" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Method hath been placed, and that not amiss, in logic, as a part of judgment. For as the doctrine of syllogisms comprehendeth the rules of judgment upon that which is invented, so the doctrine of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Method hath been placed, and that not amiss, in logic, as a part of judgment. For as the doctrine of syllogisms comprehendeth the rules of judgment upon that which is invented, so the doctrine of method containeth the rules of judgment upon that which is to be delivered; for judgment precedeth d", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_248" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) The latter whereof seemeth to be _via deserta et interclusa_. For as knowledges are now delivered, there is a kind of contract of error between the deliverer and the receiver. For he that delivere...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) The latter whereof seemeth to be _via deserta et interclusa_. For as knowledges are now delivered, there is a kind of contract of error between the deliverer and the receiver. For he that delivereth knowledge desireth to deliver it in such form as may be best believed, and not as may be best exa", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_249" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) But knowledge that is delivered as a thread to be spun on ought to be delivered and intimated, if it were possible, in the same method wherein it was invented: and so is it possible of knowledge i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) But knowledge that is delivered as a thread to be spun on ought to be delivered and intimated, if it were possible, in the same method wherein it was invented: and so is it possible of knowledge induced. But in this same anticipated and prevented knowledge, no man knoweth how he came to the know", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_250" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Another diversity of method there is, which hath some affinity with the former, used in some cases by the discretion of the ancients, but disgraced since by the impostures of many vain persons, wh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Another diversity of method there is, which hath some affinity with the former, used in some cases by the discretion of the ancients, but disgraced since by the impostures of many vain persons, who have made it as a false light for their counterfeit merchandises; and that is enigmatical and disc", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_251" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Another diversity of method, whereof the consequence is great, is the delivery of knowledge in aphorisms, or in methods; wherein we may observe that it hath been too much taken into custom, out of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Another diversity of method, whereof the consequence is great, is the delivery of knowledge in aphorisms, or in methods; wherein we may observe that it hath been too much taken into custom, out of a few axioms or observations upon any subject, to make a solemn and formal art, filling it with som", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_252" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or solid: for aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or solid: for aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connection and order is cut off; de", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_253" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "as a man shall make a great show of an art, which, if it were disjointed, would come to little. Secondly, methods are more fit to win consent or belief, but less fit to point to action; for they carry...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: as a man shall make a great show of an art, which, if it were disjointed, would come to little. Secondly, methods are more fit to win consent or belief, but less fit to point to action; for they carry a kind of demonstration in orb or circle, one part illuminating another, and therefore satisfy. But", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_254" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) Another diversity of method, which is likewise of great weight, is the handling of knowledge by assertions and their proofs, or by questions and their determinations. The latter kind whereof, if i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) Another diversity of method, which is likewise of great weight, is the handling of knowledge by assertions and their proofs, or by questions and their determinations. The latter kind whereof, if it be immoderately followed, is as prejudicial to the proceeding of learning as it is to the proceedi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_255" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) Another diversity of method is, according to the subject or matter which is handled. For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) Another diversity of method is, according to the subject or matter which is handled. For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy, which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved, touching a uniformit", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_256" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Another diversity of judgment in the delivery and teaching of knowledge is, according unto the light and presuppositions of that which is delivered. For that knowledge which is new, and foreign f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Another diversity of judgment in the delivery and teaching of knowledge is, according unto the light and presuppositions of that which is delivered. For that knowledge which is new, and foreign from opinions received, is to be delivered in another form than that that is agreeable and familiar; ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_257" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) There be also other diversities of methods vulgar and received: as that of resolution or analysis, of constitution or systasis, of concealment or cryptic, &c., which I do allow well of, though I ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) There be also other diversities of methods vulgar and received: as that of resolution or analysis, of constitution or systasis, of concealment or cryptic, &c., which I do allow well of, though I have stood upon those which are least handled and observed. All which I have remembered to this purp", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_258" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) But unto this part of knowledge, concerning method, doth further belong not only the architecture of the whole frame of a work, but also the several beams and columns thereof; not as to their stu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) But unto this part of knowledge, concerning method, doth further belong not only the architecture of the whole frame of a work, but also the several beams and columns thereof; not as to their stuff, but as to their quantity and figure. And therefore method considereth not only the disposition o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_259" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) The other considerations of method, concerning propositions, are chiefly touching the utmost propositions, which limit the dimensions of sciences: for every knowledge may be fitly said, besides t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) The other considerations of method, concerning propositions, are chiefly touching the utmost propositions, which limit the dimensions of sciences: for every knowledge may be fitly said, besides the profundity (which is the truth and substance of it, that makes it solid), to have a longitude and", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_260" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) There hath been also laboured and put in practice a method, which is not a lawful method, but a method of imposture: which is, to deliver knowledges in such manner as men may speedily come to mak...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) There hath been also laboured and put in practice a method, which is not a lawful method, but a method of imposture: which is, to deliver knowledges in such manner as men may speedily come to make a show of learning, who have it not. Such was the travail of Raymundus Lullius in making that art ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_261" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVIII. (1) Now we descend to that part which concerneth the illustration of tradition, comprehended in that science which we call rhetoric, or art of eloquence, a science excellent, and excellently we...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVIII. (1) Now we descend to that part which concerneth the illustration of tradition, comprehended in that science which we call rhetoric, or art of eloquence, a science excellent, and excellently well laboured. For although in true value it is inferior to wisdom (as it is said by God to Moses, whe", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_262" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science, as we have done of the rest, the duty and office of rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science, as we have done of the rest, the duty and office of rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will. For we see reason is disturbed in the administration thereof by three means—by illaqueati", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_263" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) And therefore it was great injustice in Plato, though springing out of a just hatred to the rhetoricians of his time, to esteem of rhetoric but as a voluptuary art, resembling it to cookery, that ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) And therefore it was great injustice in Plato, though springing out of a just hatred to the rhetoricians of his time, to esteem of rhetoric but as a voluptuary art, resembling it to cookery, that did mar wholesome meats, and help unwholesome by variety of sauces to the pleasure of the taste. For", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_264" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) Again, if the affections in themselves were pliant and obedient to reason, it were true there should be no great use of persuasions and insinuations to the will, more than of naked proposition and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) Again, if the affections in themselves were pliant and obedient to reason, it were true there should be no great use of persuasions and insinuations to the will, more than of naked proposition and proofs; but in regard of the continual mutinies and seditious of the affections—", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_265" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "reason would become captive and servile, if eloquence of persuasions did not practise and win the imagination from the affections’ part, and contract a confederacy between the reason and imagination a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: reason would become captive and servile, if eloquence of persuasions did not practise and win the imagination from the affections’ part, and contract a confederacy between the reason and imagination against the affections; for the affections themselves carry ever an appetite to good, as reason doth.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_266" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) We conclude, therefore, that rhetoric can be no more charged with the colouring of the worst part, than logic with sophistry, or morality with vice; for we know the doctrines of contraries are the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) We conclude, therefore, that rhetoric can be no more charged with the colouring of the worst part, than logic with sophistry, or morality with vice; for we know the doctrines of contraries are the same, though the use be opposite. It appeareth also that logic differeth from rhetoric, not only as", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_267" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Which application in perfection of idea ought to extend so far that if a man should speak of the same thing to several persons, he should speak to them all respectively and several ways; though this p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Which application in perfection of idea ought to extend so far that if a man should speak of the same thing to several persons, he should speak to them all respectively and several ways; though this politic part of eloquence in private speech it is easy for the greatest orators to want: whilst, by t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_268" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Now therefore will I descend to the deficiences, which, as I said, are but attendances; and first, I do not find the wisdom and diligence of Aristotle well pursued, who began to make a collection ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Now therefore will I descend to the deficiences, which, as I said, are but attendances; and first, I do not find the wisdom and diligence of Aristotle well pursued, who began to make a collection of the popular signs and colours of good and evil, both simple and comparative, which are as the sop", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_269" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Malum est_, _malum est_ (_inquit emptor_): _sed cum recesserit_, _tum gloriabitur_! The defects in the labour of Aristotle are three—one, that there be but a few of many; another, that there elenches...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Malum est_, _malum est_ (_inquit emptor_): _sed cum recesserit_, _tum gloriabitur_! The defects in the labour of Aristotle are three—one, that there be but a few of many; another, that there elenches are not annexed; and the third, that he conceived but a part of the use of them: for their use is n", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_270" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Secondly, I do resume also that which I mentioned before, touching provision or preparatory store for the furniture of speech and readiness of invention, which appeareth to be of two sorts: the on...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Secondly, I do resume also that which I mentioned before, touching provision or preparatory store for the furniture of speech and readiness of invention, which appeareth to be of two sorts: the one in resemblance to a shop of pieces unmade up, the other to a shop of things ready made up; both to", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_271" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) _Antitheta_ are theses argued _pro et contra_, wherein men may be more large and laborious; but (in such as are able to do it) to avoid prolixity of entry, I wish the seeds of the several argument...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) _Antitheta_ are theses argued _pro et contra_, wherein men may be more large and laborious; but (in such as are able to do it) to avoid prolixity of entry, I wish the seeds of the several arguments to be cast up into some brief and acute sentences, not to be cited, but to be as skeins or bottoms", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_272" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "“_Pro verbis legis_.\n Non est interpretatio, sed divinatio, quæ recedit a litera: Cum receditur a litera, judex transit in legislatorem.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: “_Pro verbis legis_.\n Non est interpretatio, sed divinatio, quæ recedit a litera: Cum receditur a litera, judex transit in legislatorem.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_273" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) _Formulæ_ are but decent and apt passages or conveyances of speech, which may serve indifferently for differing subjects; as of preface, conclusion, digression, transition, excusation, &c. For as ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) _Formulæ_ are but decent and apt passages or conveyances of speech, which may serve indifferently for differing subjects; as of preface, conclusion, digression, transition, excusation, &c. For as in buildings there is great pleasure and use in the well casting of the staircases, entries, doors, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_274" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIX. (1) There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical. For all knowledge is either delivered by teachers, or attained by men’s proper endeavo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIX. (1) There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical. For all knowledge is either delivered by teachers, or attained by men’s proper endeavours: and therefore as the principal part of tradition of knowledge concerneth chiefly writing of boo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_276" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The second is concerning the exposition and explication of authors, which resteth in annotations and commentaries: wherein it is over usual to blanch the obscure places and discourse upon the plain.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The second is concerning the exposition and explication of authors, which resteth in annotations and commentaries: wherein it is over usual to blanch the obscure places and discourse upon the plain.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_277" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The fourth is concerning some brief censure and judgment of the authors; that men thereby may make some election unto themselves what books to read.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The fourth is concerning some brief censure and judgment of the authors; that men thereby may make some election unto themselves what books to read.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_278" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And the fifth is concerning the syntax and disposition of studies; that men may know in what order or pursuit to read.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And the fifth is concerning the syntax and disposition of studies; that men may know in what order or pursuit to read.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_279" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) For pedantical knowledge, it containeth that difference of tradition which is proper for youth; whereunto appertain divers considerations of great fruit.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) For pedantical knowledge, it containeth that difference of tradition which is proper for youth; whereunto appertain divers considerations of great fruit.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_280" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As first, the timing and seasoning of knowledges; as with what to initiate them, and from what for a time to refrain them.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As first, the timing and seasoning of knowledges; as with what to initiate them, and from what for a time to refrain them.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_281" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Secondly, the consideration where to begin with the easiest, and so proceed to the more difficult; and in what courses to press the more difficult, and then to turn them to the more easy; for it is on...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Secondly, the consideration where to begin with the easiest, and so proceed to the more difficult; and in what courses to press the more difficult, and then to turn them to the more easy; for it is one method to practise swimming with bladders, and another to practise dancing with heavy shoes.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_282" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A third is the application of learning according unto the propriety of the wits; for there is no defect in the faculties intellectual, but seemeth to have a proper cure contained in some studies: as, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A third is the application of learning according unto the propriety of the wits; for there is no defect in the faculties intellectual, but seemeth to have a proper cure contained in some studies: as, for example, if a child be bird-witted, that is, hath not the faculty of attention, the mathematics ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_283" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Fourthly, the ordering of exercises is matter of great consequence to hurt or help: for, as is well observed by Cicero, men in exercising their faculties, if they be not well advised, do exercise thei...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Fourthly, the ordering of exercises is matter of great consequence to hurt or help: for, as is well observed by Cicero, men in exercising their faculties, if they be not well advised, do exercise their faults and get ill habits as well as good; so as there is a great judgment to be had in the contin", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_284" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) But to return: we are now come to a period of rational knowledges; wherein if I have made the divisions other than those that are received, yet would I not be thought to disallow all those divisio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) But to return: we are now come to a period of rational knowledges; wherein if I have made the divisions other than those that are received, yet would I not be thought to disallow all those divisions which I do not use. For there is a double necessity imposed upon me of altering the divisions. Th", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_285" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XX. (1) We proceed now to that knowledge which considereth of the appetite and will of man: whereof Solomon saith, _Ante omnia_, _fili_, _custodi cor tuum_: _nam inde procedunt actiones vitæ_. In the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XX. (1) We proceed now to that knowledge which considereth of the appetite and will of man: whereof Solomon saith, _Ante omnia_, _fili_, _custodi cor tuum_: _nam inde procedunt actiones vitæ_. In the handling of this science, those which have written seem to me to have done as if a man, that profess", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_286" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) The reason of this omission I suppose to be that hidden rock whereupon both this and many other barks of knowledge have been cast away; which is, that men have despised to be conversant in ordinar...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) The reason of this omission I suppose to be that hidden rock whereupon both this and many other barks of knowledge have been cast away; which is, that men have despised to be conversant in ordinary and common matters, the judicious direction whereof nevertheless is the wisest doctrine (for life ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_287" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Neither needed men of so excellent parts to have despaired of a fortune, which the poet Virgil promised himself, and indeed obtained, who got as much glory of eloquence, wit, and learning in the e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Neither needed men of so excellent parts to have despaired of a fortune, which the poet Virgil promised himself, and indeed obtained, who got as much glory of eloquence, wit, and learning in the expressing of the observations of husbandry, as of the heroical acts of Æneas:", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_288" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And surely, if the purpose be in good earnest, not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure, but really to instruct and suborn action and active life, these Georgics of the mind, concern...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And surely, if the purpose be in good earnest, not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure, but really to instruct and suborn action and active life, these Georgics of the mind, concerning the husbandry and tillage thereof, are no less worthy than the heroical descriptions of virtue, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_289" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) The doctrine touching the platform or nature of good considereth it either simple or compared; either the kinds of good, or the degrees of good; in the latter whereof those infinite disputatious w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) The doctrine touching the platform or nature of good considereth it either simple or compared; either the kinds of good, or the degrees of good; in the latter whereof those infinite disputatious which were touching the supreme degree thereof, which they term felicity, beatitude, or the highest g", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_290" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Freed therefore and delivered from this doctrine of the philosopher’s heaven, whereby they feigned a higher elevation of man’s nature than was (for we see in what height of style Seneca writeth, _...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Freed therefore and delivered from this doctrine of the philosopher’s heaven, whereby they feigned a higher elevation of man’s nature than was (for we see in what height of style Seneca writeth, _Vere magnum_, _habere fragilitatem hominis_, _securitatem Dei_), we may with more sobriety and truth", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_291" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Notwithstanding, if before they had come to the popular and received notions of virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, and the rest, they had stayed a little longer upon the inquiry concerning the ro...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Notwithstanding, if before they had come to the popular and received notions of virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, and the rest, they had stayed a little longer upon the inquiry concerning the roots of good and evil, and the strings of those roots, they had given, in my opinion, a great light t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_292" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) There is formed in everything a double nature of good—the one, as everything is a total or substantive in itself; the other, as it is a part or member of a greater body; whereof the latter is in d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) There is formed in everything a double nature of good—the one, as everything is a total or substantive in itself; the other, as it is a part or member of a greater body; whereof the latter is in degree the greater and the worthier, because it tendeth to the conservation of a more general form. T", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_293" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) This being set down and strongly planted, doth judge and determine most of the controversies wherein moral philosophy is conversant. For first, it decideth the question touching the preferment of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) This being set down and strongly planted, doth judge and determine most of the controversies wherein moral philosophy is conversant. For first, it decideth the question touching the preferment of the contemplative or active life, and decideth it against Aristotle. For all the reasons which he br", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_294" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) It decideth also the controversies between Zeno and Socrates, and their schools and successions, on the one side, who placed felicity in virtue simply or attended, the actions and exercises whereo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) It decideth also the controversies between Zeno and Socrates, and their schools and successions, on the one side, who placed felicity in virtue simply or attended, the actions and exercises whereof do chiefly embrace and concern society; and on the other side, the Cyrenaics and Epicureans, who p", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_295" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) It censureth also the philosophy of Epictetus, which presupposeth that felicity must be placed in those things which are in our power, lest we be liable to fortune and disturbance; as if it were ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) It censureth also the philosophy of Epictetus, which presupposeth that felicity must be placed in those things which are in our power, lest we be liable to fortune and disturbance; as if it were not a thing much more happy to fail in good and virtuous ends for the public, than to obtain all tha", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_296" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) It censureth likewise that abuse of philosophy which grew general about the time of Epictetus, in converting it into an occupation or profession; as if the purpose had been, not to resist and ext...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) It censureth likewise that abuse of philosophy which grew general about the time of Epictetus, in converting it into an occupation or profession; as if the purpose had been, not to resist and extinguish perturbations, but to fly and avoid the causes of them, and to shape a particular kind and c", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_297" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) Lastly, it censureth the tenderness and want of application in some of the most ancient and reverend philosophers and philosophical men, that did retire too easily from civil business, for avoidi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) Lastly, it censureth the tenderness and want of application in some of the most ancient and reverend philosophers and philosophical men, that did retire too easily from civil business, for avoiding of indignities and perturbations; whereas the resolution of men truly moral ought to be such as t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_298" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXI. (1) To resume private or particular good, it falleth into the division of good active and passive; for this difference of good (not unlike to that which amongst the Romans was expressed in the fa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXI. (1) To resume private or particular good, it falleth into the division of good active and passive; for this difference of good (not unlike to that which amongst the Romans was expressed in the familiar or household terms of _promus_ and _condus_) is formed also in all things, and is best disclo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_299" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) To resume passive good, it receiveth a subdivision of conservative and effective. For let us take a brief review of that which we have said: we have spoken first of the good of society, the intent...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) To resume passive good, it receiveth a subdivision of conservative and effective. For let us take a brief review of that which we have said: we have spoken first of the good of society, the intention whereof embraceth the form of human nature, whereof we are members and portions, and not our own", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_300" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "His approach or assumption to divine or angelical nature is the perfection of his form; the error or false imitation of which good is that which is the tempest of human life; while man, upon the insti...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: His approach or assumption to divine or angelical nature is the perfection of his form; the error or false imitation of which good is that which is the tempest of human life; while man, upon the instinct of an advancement, formal and essential, is carried to seek an advancement local. For as those w", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_301" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) To resume the good of conservation or comfort, which consisteth in the fruition of that which is agreeable to our natures; it seemeth to be most pure and natural of pleasures, but yet the softest ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) To resume the good of conservation or comfort, which consisteth in the fruition of that which is agreeable to our natures; it seemeth to be most pure and natural of pleasures, but yet the softest and lowest. And this also receiveth a difference, which hath neither been well judged of, nor well i", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_302" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) The former question being debated between Socrates and a sophist, Socrates placing felicity in an equal and constant peace of mind, and the sophist in much desiring and much enjoying, they fell fr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) The former question being debated between Socrates and a sophist, Socrates placing felicity in an equal and constant peace of mind, and the sophist in much desiring and much enjoying, they fell from argument to ill words: the sophist saying that Socrates’ felicity was the felicity of a block or ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_303" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) But the second question, decided the true way, maketh the former superfluous. For can it be doubted, but that there are some who take more pleasure in enjoying pleasures than some other, and yet, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) But the second question, decided the true way, maketh the former superfluous. For can it be doubted, but that there are some who take more pleasure in enjoying pleasures than some other, and yet, nevertheless, are less troubled with the loss or leaving of them? So as this same, _Non uti ut non a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_304" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So have they sought to make men’s minds too uniform and harmonical, by not breaking them sufficiently to contrary motions; the reasons whereof I suppose to be, because they themselves were men dedicat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So have they sought to make men’s minds too uniform and harmonical, by not breaking them sufficiently to contrary motions; the reasons whereof I suppose to be, because they themselves were men dedicated to a private, free, and unapplied course of life. For as we see, upon the lute or like instrument", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_305" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Having therefore deduced the good of man which is private and particular, as far as seemeth fit, we will now return to that good of man which respecteth and beholdeth society, which we may term du...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Having therefore deduced the good of man which is private and particular, as far as seemeth fit, we will now return to that good of man which respecteth and beholdeth society, which we may term duty; because the term of duty is more proper to a mind well framed and disposed towards others, as th", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_306" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) This part of duty is subdivided into two parts: the common duty of every man, as a man or member of a state; the other, the respective or special duty of every man in his profession, vocation, and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) This part of duty is subdivided into two parts: the common duty of every man, as a man or member of a state; the other, the respective or special duty of every man in his profession, vocation, and place. The first of these is extant and well laboured, as hath been said. The second likewise I may", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_307" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) In which kind I cannot but mention, _honoris causa_, your Majesty’s excellent book touching the duty of a king; a work richly compounded of divinity, morality, and policy, with great aspersion of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) In which kind I cannot but mention, _honoris causa_, your Majesty’s excellent book touching the duty of a king; a work richly compounded of divinity, morality, and policy, with great aspersion of all other arts; and being in some opinion one of the most sound and healthful writings that I have r", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_308" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) But to return; there belongeth further to the handling of this part, touching the duties of professions and vocations, a relative or opposite, touching the frauds, cautels, impostures, and vices o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) But to return; there belongeth further to the handling of this part, touching the duties of professions and vocations, a relative or opposite, touching the frauds, cautels, impostures, and vices of every profession, which hath been likewise handled; but how? rather in a satire and cynically, tha", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_309" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Unto this part, touching respective duty, doth also appertain the duties between husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant.\nSo likewise the laws of friendship and gratitude, the civi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Unto this part, touching respective duty, doth also appertain the duties between husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant.\nSo likewise the laws of friendship and gratitude, the civil bond of companies, colleges, and politic bodies, of neighbourhood, and all other proportionate dut", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_310" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) The knowledge concerning good respecting society doth handle it also, not simply alone, but comparatively; whereunto belongeth the weighing of duties between person and person, case and case, par...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) The knowledge concerning good respecting society doth handle it also, not simply alone, but comparatively; whereunto belongeth the weighing of duties between person and person, case and case, particular and public. As we see in the proceeding of Lucius Brutus against his own sons, which was so ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_311" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So the case was doubtful, and had opinion on both sides. Again, we see when M. Brutus and Cassius invited to a supper certain whose opinions they meant to feel, whether they were fit to be made their ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So the case was doubtful, and had opinion on both sides. Again, we see when M. Brutus and Cassius invited to a supper certain whose opinions they meant to feel, whether they were fit to be made their associates, and cast forth the question touching the killing of a tyrant being a usurper, they were ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_312" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXII. (1) Now, therefore, that we have spoken of this fruit of life, it remaineth to speak of the husbandry that belongeth thereunto, without which part the former seemeth to be no better than a fair ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXII. (1) Now, therefore, that we have spoken of this fruit of life, it remaineth to speak of the husbandry that belongeth thereunto, without which part the former seemeth to be no better than a fair image or statue, which is beautiful to contemplate, but is without life and motion; whereunto Aristo", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_313" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) This part, therefore, because of the excellency thereof, I cannot but find exceeding strange that it is not reduced to written inquiry; the rather, because it consisteth of much matter, wherein bo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) This part, therefore, because of the excellency thereof, I cannot but find exceeding strange that it is not reduced to written inquiry; the rather, because it consisteth of much matter, wherein both speech and action is often conversant; and such wherein the common talk of men (which is rare, bu", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_314" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) First, therefore, in this, as in all things which are practical we ought to cast up our account, what is in our power, and what not; for the one may be dealt with by way of alteration, but the oth...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) First, therefore, in this, as in all things which are practical we ought to cast up our account, what is in our power, and what not; for the one may be dealt with by way of alteration, but the other by way of application only. The husbandman cannot command neither the nature of the earth nor the", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_315" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But when that we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a dull and neglected suffering, but of a wise and industrious suffering, which draweth and contriveth use and advantage out of that which seemet...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But when that we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a dull and neglected suffering, but of a wise and industrious suffering, which draweth and contriveth use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary; which is that properly which we call accommodating or applying. Now the wisd", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_316" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) So, then, the first article of this knowledge is to set down sound and true distributions and descriptions of the several characters and tempers of men’s natures and dispositions, specially having...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) So, then, the first article of this knowledge is to set down sound and true distributions and descriptions of the several characters and tempers of men’s natures and dispositions, specially having regard to those differences which are most radical in being the fountains and causes of the rest, o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_317" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So that there may be fitly said to be a longanimity, which is commonly also ascribed to God as a magnanimity. So further deserved it to be considered by Aristotle, “That there is a disposition in conv...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So that there may be fitly said to be a longanimity, which is commonly also ascribed to God as a magnanimity. So further deserved it to be considered by Aristotle, “That there is a disposition in conversation (supposing it in things which do in no sort touch or concern a man’s self) to soothe and pl", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_318" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Of much like kind are those impressions of Nature, which are imposed upon the mind by the sex, by the age, by the region, by health and sickness, by beauty and deformity, and the like, which are i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Of much like kind are those impressions of Nature, which are imposed upon the mind by the sex, by the age, by the region, by health and sickness, by beauty and deformity, and the like, which are inherent and not extern; and again, those which are caused by extern fortune, as sovereignty, nobilit", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_319" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Another article of this knowledge is the inquiry touching the affections; for as in medicining of the body, it is in order first to know the divers complexions and constitutions; secondly, the dis...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Another article of this knowledge is the inquiry touching the affections; for as in medicining of the body, it is in order first to know the divers complexions and constitutions; secondly, the diseases; and lastly, the cures: so in medicining of the mind, after knowledge of the divers characters", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_320" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Now come we to those points which are within our own command, and have force and operation upon the mind, to affect the will and appetite, and to alter manners: wherein they ought to have handled ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Now come we to those points which are within our own command, and have force and operation upon the mind, to affect the will and appetite, and to alter manners: wherein they ought to have handled custom, exercise, habit, education, example, imitation, emulation, company, friends, praise, reproof", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_321" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) The opinion of Aristotle seemeth to me a negligent opinion, that of those things which consist by Nature, nothing can be changed by custom; using for example, that if a stone be thrown ten thousan...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) The opinion of Aristotle seemeth to me a negligent opinion, that of those things which consist by Nature, nothing can be changed by custom; using for example, that if a stone be thrown ten thousand times up it will not learn to ascend; and that by often seeing or hearing we do not learn to see o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_322" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) The first shall be, that we beware we take not at the first either too high a strain or too weak: for if too high, in a diffident nature you discourage, in a confident nature you breed an opinion ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) The first shall be, that we beware we take not at the first either too high a strain or too weak: for if too high, in a diffident nature you discourage, in a confident nature you breed an opinion of facility, and so a sloth; and in all natures you breed a further expectation than can hold out, a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_323" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may work out the knots and stonds of the mind, and make the middle times the more easy", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_324" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) Another precept is that which Aristotle mentioneth by the way, which is to bear ever towards the contrary extreme of that whereunto we are by nature inclined; like unto the rowing against the str...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) Another precept is that which Aristotle mentioneth by the way, which is to bear ever towards the contrary extreme of that whereunto we are by nature inclined; like unto the rowing against the stream, or making a wand straight by bending him contrary to his natural crookedness.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_325" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) Another precept is that the mind is brought to anything better, and with more sweetness and happiness, if that whereunto you pretend be not first in the intention, but _tanquam aliud agendo_, bec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) Another precept is that the mind is brought to anything better, and with more sweetness and happiness, if that whereunto you pretend be not first in the intention, but _tanquam aliud agendo_, because of the natural hatred of the mind against necessity and constraint. Many other axioms there are", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_326" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) So if we should handle books and studies, and what influence and operation they have upon manners, are there not divers precepts of great caution and direction appertaining thereunto? Did not one...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) So if we should handle books and studies, and what influence and operation they have upon manners, are there not divers precepts of great caution and direction appertaining thereunto? Did not one of the fathers in great indignation call poesy _vinum dæmonum_, because it increaseth temptations, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_327" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) But there is a kind of culture of the mind that seemeth yet more accurate and elaborate than the rest, and is built upon this ground; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state more p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) But there is a kind of culture of the mind that seemeth yet more accurate and elaborate than the rest, and is built upon this ground; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect, and at other times in a state more depraved. The purpose, therefore, of this practice is to ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_328" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(15) Wherefore we will conclude with that last point, which is of all other means the most compendious and summary, and again, the most noble and effectual to the reducing of the mind unto virtue and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (15) Wherefore we will conclude with that last point, which is of all other means the most compendious and summary, and again, the most noble and effectual to the reducing of the mind unto virtue and good estate; which is, the electing and propounding unto a man’s self good and virtuous ends of his ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_329" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(16) Wherefore I do conclude this part of moral knowledge, concerning the culture and regiment of the mind; wherein if any man, considering the arts thereof which I have enumerated, do judge that my l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (16) Wherefore I do conclude this part of moral knowledge, concerning the culture and regiment of the mind; wherein if any man, considering the arts thereof which I have enumerated, do judge that my labour is but to collect into an art or science that which hath been pretermitted by others, as matte", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_330" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "“Sunt geminæ somni portæ: quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad cœlum mittunt insomnia manes:”", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: “Sunt geminæ somni portæ: quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad cœlum mittunt insomnia manes:”", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_331" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "so if we put on sobriety and attention, we shall find it a sure maxim in knowledge, that the more pleasant liquor (“of wine”) is the more vaporous, and the braver gate (“of ivory”) sendeth forth the f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: so if we put on sobriety and attention, we shall find it a sure maxim in knowledge, that the more pleasant liquor (“of wine”) is the more vaporous, and the braver gate (“of ivory”) sendeth forth the falser dreams.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_332" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(17) But we have now concluded that general part of human philosophy, which contemplateth man segregate, and as he consisteth of body and spirit. Wherein we may further note, that there seemeth to be ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (17) But we have now concluded that general part of human philosophy, which contemplateth man segregate, and as he consisteth of body and spirit. Wherein we may further note, that there seemeth to be a relation or conformity between the good of the mind and the good of the body. For as we divided th", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_333" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIII. (1) Civil knowledge is conversant about a subject which of all others is most immersed in matter, and hardliest reduced to axiom.\nNevertheless, as Cato the Censor said, “That the Romans were li...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIII. (1) Civil knowledge is conversant about a subject which of all others is most immersed in matter, and hardliest reduced to axiom.\nNevertheless, as Cato the Censor said, “That the Romans were like sheep, for that a man were better drive a flock of them, than one of them; for in a flock, if you", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_334" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) This knowledge hath three parts, according to the three summary actions of society; which are conversation, negotiation, and government.\nFor man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection; an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) This knowledge hath three parts, according to the three summary actions of society; which are conversation, negotiation, and government.\nFor man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection; and they be three wisdoms of divers natures which do often sever—wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of bu", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_335" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) The wisdom of conversation ought not to be over much affected, but much less despised; for it hath not only an honour in itself, but an influence also into business and government. The poet saith,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) The wisdom of conversation ought not to be over much affected, but much less despised; for it hath not only an honour in itself, but an influence also into business and government. The poet saith, _Nec vultu destrue verba tuo_: a man may destroy the force of his words with his countenance; so ma", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_336" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) The wisdom touching negotiation or business hath not been hitherto collected into writing, to the great derogation of learning and the professors of learning. For from this root springeth chiefly ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) The wisdom touching negotiation or business hath not been hitherto collected into writing, to the great derogation of learning and the professors of learning. For from this root springeth chiefly that note or opinion, which by us is expressed in adage to this effect, that there is no great concu", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_337" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) Neither needeth it at all to be doubted, that this knowledge should be so variable as it falleth not under precept; for it is much less infinite than science of government, which we see is laboure...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) Neither needeth it at all to be doubted, that this knowledge should be so variable as it falleth not under precept; for it is much less infinite than science of government, which we see is laboured and in some part reduced. Of this wisdom it seemeth some of the ancient Romans in the saddest and ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_338" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) _Sed et cunctis sermonibus qui dicuntur ne accommodes aurem tuam_, _ne forte audias servum tuum maledicentem tibi_. Here is commended the provident stay of inquiry of that which we would be loth t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) _Sed et cunctis sermonibus qui dicuntur ne accommodes aurem tuam_, _ne forte audias servum tuum maledicentem tibi_. Here is commended the provident stay of inquiry of that which we would be loth to find: as it was judged great wisdom in Pompeius Magnus that he burned Sertorius’ papers unperused.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_339" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Vir sapiens_, _si cum stulto contenderit_, _sive irascatur_, _sive rideat_, _non inveniet requiem_. Here is described the great disadvantage which a wise man hath in undertaking a lighter person than...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Vir sapiens_, _si cum stulto contenderit_, _sive irascatur_, _sive rideat_, _non inveniet requiem_. Here is described the great disadvantage which a wise man hath in undertaking a lighter person than himself; which is such an engagement as, whether a man turn the matter to jest, or turn it to heat,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_340" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Qui delicate a pueritia nutrit servum suum_, _postea sentiet eum contumacem_. Here is signified, that if a man begin too high a pitch in his favours, it doth commonly end in unkindness and unthankful...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Qui delicate a pueritia nutrit servum suum_, _postea sentiet eum contumacem_. Here is signified, that if a man begin too high a pitch in his favours, it doth commonly end in unkindness and unthankfulness.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_341" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Vidisti virum velocem in opere suo_? _coram regibus stabit_, _nec erit inter ignobiles_. Here is observed, that of all virtues for rising to honour, quickness of despatch is the best; for superiors m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Vidisti virum velocem in opere suo_? _coram regibus stabit_, _nec erit inter ignobiles_. Here is observed, that of all virtues for rising to honour, quickness of despatch is the best; for superiors many times love not to have those they employ too deep or too sufficient, but ready and diligent.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_342" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Vidi cunctos viventes qui ambulant sub sole_, _cum adolescente secundo qui consurgit pro eo_. Here is expressed that which was noted by Sylla first, and after him by Tiberius. _Plures adorant solem o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Vidi cunctos viventes qui ambulant sub sole_, _cum adolescente secundo qui consurgit pro eo_. Here is expressed that which was noted by Sylla first, and after him by Tiberius. _Plures adorant solem orientem quam occidentem vel meridianum_.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_343" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Si spiritus potestatem habentis ascenderit super te_, _locum tuum ne demiseris_; _quia curatio faciet cessare peccata maxima_. Here caution is given, that upon displeasure, retiring is of all courses...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Si spiritus potestatem habentis ascenderit super te_, _locum tuum ne demiseris_; _quia curatio faciet cessare peccata maxima_. Here caution is given, that upon displeasure, retiring is of all courses the unfittest; for a man leaveth things at worst, and depriveth himself of means to make them bette", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_344" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Erat civitas parva_, _et pauci in ea viri_: _venit contra eam rex magnus_, _et vallavit eam_, _instruxitque munitones per gyrum_, _et perfecta est obsidio_; _inventusque est in ea vir pauper et sapie...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Erat civitas parva_, _et pauci in ea viri_: _venit contra eam rex magnus_, _et vallavit eam_, _instruxitque munitones per gyrum_, _et perfecta est obsidio_; _inventusque est in ea vir pauper et sapiens_, _et liberavit eam per sapientiam suam_; _et nullus deinceps recordatus est huminis illius paupe", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_345" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Millis responsio frangit iram_. Here is noted that silence or rough answer exasperateth; but an answer present and temperate pacifieth.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Millis responsio frangit iram_. Here is noted that silence or rough answer exasperateth; but an answer present and temperate pacifieth.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_346" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Iter pigrorum quasi sepes spinarum_. Here is lively represented how laborious sloth proveth in the end; for when things are deferred till the last instant, and nothing prepared beforehand, every step...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Iter pigrorum quasi sepes spinarum_. Here is lively represented how laborious sloth proveth in the end; for when things are deferred till the last instant, and nothing prepared beforehand, every step findeth a briar or impediment, which catcheth or stoppeth.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_347" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Melior est finis orationis quam principium_. Here is taxed the vanity of formal speakers, that study more about prefaces and inducements, than upon the conclusions and issues of speech.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Melior est finis orationis quam principium_. Here is taxed the vanity of formal speakers, that study more about prefaces and inducements, than upon the conclusions and issues of speech.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_348" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Qui cognoscit in judicio faciem_, _non bene facit_; _iste et pro buccella panis deseret veritatem_. Here is noted, that a judge were better be a briber than a respecter of persons; for a corrupt judg...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Qui cognoscit in judicio faciem_, _non bene facit_; _iste et pro buccella panis deseret veritatem_. Here is noted, that a judge were better be a briber than a respecter of persons; for a corrupt judge offendeth not so lightly as a facile.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_349" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Vir pauper calumnians pauperes simils est imbri vehementi_, _in quo paratur fames_. Here is expressed the extremity of necessitous extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the hungry ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Vir pauper calumnians pauperes simils est imbri vehementi_, _in quo paratur fames_. Here is expressed the extremity of necessitous extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the hungry horseleech.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_350" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Fons turbatus pede_, _et vena corrupta_, _est justus cadens coram impio_. Here is noted, that one judicial and exemplar iniquity in the face of the world doth trouble the fountains of justice more th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Fons turbatus pede_, _et vena corrupta_, _est justus cadens coram impio_. Here is noted, that one judicial and exemplar iniquity in the face of the world doth trouble the fountains of justice more than many particular injuries passed over by connivance.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_351" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Qui subtrahit aliquid a patre et a matre_, _et dicit hoc non esse peccatum_, _particeps est homicidii_. Here is noted that, whereas men in wronging their best friends use to extenuate their fault, as...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Qui subtrahit aliquid a patre et a matre_, _et dicit hoc non esse peccatum_, _particeps est homicidii_. Here is noted that, whereas men in wronging their best friends use to extenuate their fault, as if they might presume or be bold upon them, it doth contrariwise indeed aggravate their fault, and ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_352" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Noli esse amicus homini iracundo_, _nec ambulato cum homine furioso_.\nHere caution is given, that in the election of our friends we do principally avoid those which are impatient, as those that will ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Noli esse amicus homini iracundo_, _nec ambulato cum homine furioso_.\nHere caution is given, that in the election of our friends we do principally avoid those which are impatient, as those that will espouse us to many factions and quarrels.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_353" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Qui conturbat domum suam_, _possidebit ventum_. Here is noted, that in domestical separations and breaches men do promise to themselves quieting of their mind and contentment; but still they are dece...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Qui conturbat domum suam_, _possidebit ventum_. Here is noted, that in domestical separations and breaches men do promise to themselves quieting of their mind and contentment; but still they are deceived of their expectation, and it turneth to wind.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_354" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Filius sapiens lætificat patrem_: _filius vero stultus mæstitia est matri suæ_. Here is distinguished, that fathers have most comfort of the good proof of their sons; but mothers have most discomfort...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Filius sapiens lætificat patrem_: _filius vero stultus mæstitia est matri suæ_. Here is distinguished, that fathers have most comfort of the good proof of their sons; but mothers have most discomfort of their ill proof, because women have little discerning of virtue, but of fortune.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_355" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Qui celat delictum_, _quærit amicitiam_; _sed qui altero sermone repetit_, _separat fæderatos_. Here caution is given, that reconcilement is better managed by an amnesty, and passing over that which ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Qui celat delictum_, _quærit amicitiam_; _sed qui altero sermone repetit_, _separat fæderatos_. Here caution is given, that reconcilement is better managed by an amnesty, and passing over that which is past, than by apologies and excuses.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_356" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_In omni opere bono erit abundantia_; _ubi autem verba sunt plurima_, _ibi frequenter egestas_. Here is noted, that words and discourse aboundeth most where there is idleness and want.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _In omni opere bono erit abundantia_; _ubi autem verba sunt plurima_, _ibi frequenter egestas_. Here is noted, that words and discourse aboundeth most where there is idleness and want.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_357" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Primus in sua causa justus_: _sed venit altera pars_, _et inquiret in eum_. Here is observed, that in all causes the first tale possesseth much; in sort, that the prejudice thereby wrought will be ha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Primus in sua causa justus_: _sed venit altera pars_, _et inquiret in eum_. Here is observed, that in all causes the first tale possesseth much; in sort, that the prejudice thereby wrought will be hardly removed, except some abuse or falsity in the information be detected.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_358" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Verba bilinguis quasi simplicia_, _et ipsa perveniunt ad interiora ventris_. Here is distinguished, that flattery and insinuation, which seemeth set and artificial, sinketh not far; but that entereth...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Verba bilinguis quasi simplicia_, _et ipsa perveniunt ad interiora ventris_. Here is distinguished, that flattery and insinuation, which seemeth set and artificial, sinketh not far; but that entereth deep which hath show of nature, liberty, and simplicity.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_359" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Qui erudit derisorem_, _ipse sibi injuriam facit_; _et qui arguit impium_, _sibi maculam generat_. Here caution is given how we tender reprehension to arrogant and scornful natures, whose manner is t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Qui erudit derisorem_, _ipse sibi injuriam facit_; _et qui arguit impium_, _sibi maculam generat_. Here caution is given how we tender reprehension to arrogant and scornful natures, whose manner is to esteem it for contumely, and accordingly to return it.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_360" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Da sapienti occasionem_, _et addetur ei sapientia_. Here is distinguished the wisdom brought into habit, and that which is but verbal and swimming only in conceit; for the one upon the occasion prese...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Da sapienti occasionem_, _et addetur ei sapientia_. Here is distinguished the wisdom brought into habit, and that which is but verbal and swimming only in conceit; for the one upon the occasion presented is quickened and redoubled, the other is amazed and confused.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_361" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "_Quomodo in aquis resplendent vultus prospicientium_, _sic corda hominum manifesta sunt prudentibus_. Here the mind of a wise man is compared to a glass, wherein the images of all diversity of natures...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: _Quomodo in aquis resplendent vultus prospicientium_, _sic corda hominum manifesta sunt prudentibus_. Here the mind of a wise man is compared to a glass, wherein the images of all diversity of natures and customs are represented; from which representation proceedeth that application,", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_362" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Thus have I stayed somewhat longer upon these sentences politic of Solomon than is agreeable to the proportion of an example; led with a desire to give authority to this part of knowledge, which I...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Thus have I stayed somewhat longer upon these sentences politic of Solomon than is agreeable to the proportion of an example; led with a desire to give authority to this part of knowledge, which I noted as deficient, by so excellent a precedent; and have also attended them with brief observation", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_363" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) Neither was this in use only with the Hebrews, but it is generally to be found in the wisdom of the more ancient times; that as men found out any observation that they thought was good for life, t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) Neither was this in use only with the Hebrews, but it is generally to be found in the wisdom of the more ancient times; that as men found out any observation that they thought was good for life, they would gather it and express it in parable or aphorism or fable. But for fables, they were vicege", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_364" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) But this difference is not amiss to be remembered, that as history of times is the best ground for discourse of government, such as Machiavel handleth, so histories of lives is the most popular fo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) But this difference is not amiss to be remembered, that as history of times is the best ground for discourse of government, such as Machiavel handleth, so histories of lives is the most popular for discourse of business, because it is more conversant in private actions. Nay, there is a ground of", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_365" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) But yet there is another part of this part, which differeth as much from that whereof we have spoken as _sapere_ and _sibi sapere_, the one moving as it were to the circumference, the other to th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) But yet there is another part of this part, which differeth as much from that whereof we have spoken as _sapere_ and _sibi sapere_, the one moving as it were to the circumference, the other to the centre. For there is a wisdom of counsel, and again there is a wisdom of pressing a man’s own fort", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_366" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) This conceit or position, if it be too much declared and professed, hath been thought a thing impolitic and unlucky, as was observed in Timotheus the Athenian, who, having done many great service...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) This conceit or position, if it be too much declared and professed, hath been thought a thing impolitic and unlucky, as was observed in Timotheus the Athenian, who, having done many great services to the state in his government, and giving an account thereof to the people as the manner was, did", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_367" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For these confidences were ever unhallowed, and unblessed; and, therefore, those that were great politiques indeed ever ascribed their successes to their felicity and not to their skill or virtue. For...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For these confidences were ever unhallowed, and unblessed; and, therefore, those that were great politiques indeed ever ascribed their successes to their felicity and not to their skill or virtue. For so Sylla surnamed himself Felix, not Magnus. So Cæsar said to the master of the ship, _Cæsarem port", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_368" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) But yet, nevertheless, these positions, _Faber quisque fortunæ suæ_: _Sapiens dominabitur astris_: _Invia virtuti null est via_, and the like, being taken and used as spurs to industry, and not a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) But yet, nevertheless, these positions, _Faber quisque fortunæ suæ_: _Sapiens dominabitur astris_: _Invia virtuti null est via_, and the like, being taken and used as spurs to industry, and not as stirrups to insolency, rather for resolution than for the presumption or outward declaration, have", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_369" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) Wherein it may appear at the first a new and unwonted argument to teach men how to raise and make their fortune; a doctrine wherein every man perchance will be ready to yield himself a disciple, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) Wherein it may appear at the first a new and unwonted argument to teach men how to raise and make their fortune; a doctrine wherein every man perchance will be ready to yield himself a disciple, till he see the difficulty: for fortune layeth as heavy impositions as virtue; and it is as hard and", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_370" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) First, therefore, the precept which I conceive to be most summary towards the prevailing in fortune, is to obtain that window which Momus did require; who seeing in the frame of man’s heart such ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) First, therefore, the precept which I conceive to be most summary towards the prevailing in fortune, is to obtain that window which Momus did require; who seeing in the frame of man’s heart such angles and recesses, found fault there was not a window to look into them; that is, to procure good ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_371" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(15) That this knowledge is possible, Solomon is our surety, who saith, _Consilium in corde viri tanquam aqua profunda_; _sed vir prudens exhauriet illud_. And although the knowledge itself falleth no...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (15) That this knowledge is possible, Solomon is our surety, who saith, _Consilium in corde viri tanquam aqua profunda_; _sed vir prudens exhauriet illud_. And although the knowledge itself falleth not under precept because it is of individuals, yet the instructions for the obtaining of it may.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_372" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(16) We will begin, therefore, with this precept, according to the ancient opinion, that the sinews of wisdom are slowness of belief and distrust; that more trust be given to countenances and deeds th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (16) We will begin, therefore, with this precept, according to the ancient opinion, that the sinews of wisdom are slowness of belief and distrust; that more trust be given to countenances and deeds than to words; and in words rather to sudden passages and surprised words than to set and purposed wor", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_373" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(17) Neither are deeds such assured pledges as that they may be trusted without a judicious consideration of their magnitude and nature: _Fraus sibi in parvis fidem præstruit ut majore emolumento fall...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (17) Neither are deeds such assured pledges as that they may be trusted without a judicious consideration of their magnitude and nature: _Fraus sibi in parvis fidem præstruit ut majore emolumento fallat_; and the Italian thinketh himself upon the point to be bought and sold, when he is better used t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_374" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(18) As for words, though they be like waters to physicians, full of flattery and uncertainty, yet they are not to be despised specially with the advantage of passion and affection. For so we see Tibe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (18) As for words, though they be like waters to physicians, full of flattery and uncertainty, yet they are not to be despised specially with the advantage of passion and affection. For so we see Tiberius, upon a stinging and incensing speech of Agrippina, came a step forth of his dissimulation when", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_375" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And experience showeth there are few men so true to themselves and so settled but that, sometimes upon heat, sometimes upon bravery, sometimes upon kindness, sometimes upon trouble of mind and weaknes...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And experience showeth there are few men so true to themselves and so settled but that, sometimes upon heat, sometimes upon bravery, sometimes upon kindness, sometimes upon trouble of mind and weakness, they open themselves; specially if they be put to it with a counter-dissimulation, according to t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_376" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(19) As for the knowing of men which is at second hand from reports: men’s weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies, their virtues and abilities from their friends, their customs and ti...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (19) As for the knowing of men which is at second hand from reports: men’s weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies, their virtues and abilities from their friends, their customs and times from their servants, their conceits and opinions from their familiar friends, with whom they dis", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_377" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(20) But the soundest disclosing and expounding of men is by their natures and ends, wherein the weakest sort of men are best interpreted by their natures, and the wisest by their ends. For it was bot...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (20) But the soundest disclosing and expounding of men is by their natures and ends, wherein the weakest sort of men are best interpreted by their natures, and the wisest by their ends. For it was both pleasantly and wisely said (though I think very untruly) by a nuncio of the Pope, returning from a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_378" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(21) But princes, upon a far other reason, are best interpreted by their natures, and private persons by their ends. For princes being at the top of human desires, they have for the most part no parti...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (21) But princes, upon a far other reason, are best interpreted by their natures, and private persons by their ends. For princes being at the top of human desires, they have for the most part no particular ends whereto they aspire, by distance from which a man might take measure and scale of the res", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_379" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(22) But to all this part of inquiry the most compendious way resteth in three things; the first, to have general acquaintance and inwardness with those which have general acquaintance and look most i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (22) But to all this part of inquiry the most compendious way resteth in three things; the first, to have general acquaintance and inwardness with those which have general acquaintance and look most into the world; and specially according to the diversity of business, and the diversity of persons, t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_380" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(23) The second precept concerning this knowledge is, for men to take good information touching their own person, and well to understand themselves; knowing that, as St. James saith, though men look o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (23) The second precept concerning this knowledge is, for men to take good information touching their own person, and well to understand themselves; knowing that, as St. James saith, though men look oft in a glass, yet they do suddenly forget themselves; wherein as the divine glass is the Word of Go", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_381" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(24) For men ought to take an impartial view of their own abilities and virtues; and again of their wants and impediments; accounting these with the most, and those other with the least; and from this...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (24) For men ought to take an impartial view of their own abilities and virtues; and again of their wants and impediments; accounting these with the most, and those other with the least; and from this view and examination to frame the considerations following.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_382" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(25) First, to consider how the constitution of their nature sorteth with the general state of the times; which if they find agreeable and fit, then in all things to give themselves more scope and lib...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (25) First, to consider how the constitution of their nature sorteth with the general state of the times; which if they find agreeable and fit, then in all things to give themselves more scope and liberty; but if differing and dissonant, then in the whole course of their life to be more close retire", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_383" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(26) Secondly, to consider how their nature sorteth with professions and courses of life, and accordingly to make election, if they be free; and, if engaged, to make the departure at the first opportu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (26) Secondly, to consider how their nature sorteth with professions and courses of life, and accordingly to make election, if they be free; and, if engaged, to make the departure at the first opportunity; as we see was done by Duke Valentine, that was designed by his father to a sacerdotal professi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_384" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(27) Thirdly, to consider how they sort with those whom they are like to have competitors and concurrents; and to take that course wherein there is most solitude, and themselves like to be most eminen...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (27) Thirdly, to consider how they sort with those whom they are like to have competitors and concurrents; and to take that course wherein there is most solitude, and themselves like to be most eminent; as Cæsar Julius did, who at first was an orator or pleader; but when he saw the excellency of Cic", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_385" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(28) Fourthly, in the choice of their friends and dependents, to proceed according to the composition of their own nature; as we may see in Cæsar, all whose friends and followers were men active and e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (28) Fourthly, in the choice of their friends and dependents, to proceed according to the composition of their own nature; as we may see in Cæsar, all whose friends and followers were men active and effectual, but not solemn, or of reputation.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_386" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(29) Fifthly, to take special heed how they guide themselves by examples, in thinking they can do as they see others do; whereas perhaps their natures and carriages are far differing. In which error i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (29) Fifthly, to take special heed how they guide themselves by examples, in thinking they can do as they see others do; whereas perhaps their natures and carriages are far differing. In which error it seemeth Pompey was, of whom Cicero saith that he was wont often to say, _Sylla potuit_, _ego non p", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_387" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(30) Next to the well understanding and discerning of a man’s self, there followeth the well opening and revealing a man’s self; wherein we see nothing more usual than for the more able man to make th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (30) Next to the well understanding and discerning of a man’s self, there followeth the well opening and revealing a man’s self; wherein we see nothing more usual than for the more able man to make the less show. For there is a great advantage in the well setting forth of a man’s virtues, fortunes, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_389" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(31) But for these flourishes and enhancements of virtue, as they are not perchance unnecessary, so it is at least necessary that virtue be not disvalued and embased under the just price, which is don...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (31) But for these flourishes and enhancements of virtue, as they are not perchance unnecessary, so it is at least necessary that virtue be not disvalued and embased under the just price, which is done in three manners—by offering and obtruding a man’s self, wherein men think he is rewarded when he ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_390" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(32) But the covering of defects is of no less importance than the valuing of good parts; which may be done likewise in three manners—by caution, by colour, and by confidence. Caution is when men do i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (32) But the covering of defects is of no less importance than the valuing of good parts; which may be done likewise in three manners—by caution, by colour, and by confidence. Caution is when men do ingeniously and discreetly avoid to be put into those things for which they are not proper; whereas c", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_391" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "and therefore whatsoever want a man hath, he must see that he pretend the virtue that shadoweth it; as if he be dull, he must affect gravity; if a coward, mildness; and so the rest. For the second, a ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: and therefore whatsoever want a man hath, he must see that he pretend the virtue that shadoweth it; as if he be dull, he must affect gravity; if a coward, mildness; and so the rest. For the second, a man must frame some probable cause why he should not do his best, and why he should dissemble his ab", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_392" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(33) Another precept of this knowledge is by all possible endeavour to frame the mind to be pliant and obedient to occasion; for nothing hindereth men’s fortunes so much as this: _Idem manebat_, _nequ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (33) Another precept of this knowledge is by all possible endeavour to frame the mind to be pliant and obedient to occasion; for nothing hindereth men’s fortunes so much as this: _Idem manebat_, _neque idem decebat_—men are where they were, when occasions turn: and therefore to Cato, whom Livy maket", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_393" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(34) Another precept of this knowledge, which hath some affinity with that we last spoke of, but with difference, is that which is well expressed, _Fatis accede deisque_, that men do not only turn wit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (34) Another precept of this knowledge, which hath some affinity with that we last spoke of, but with difference, is that which is well expressed, _Fatis accede deisque_, that men do not only turn with the occasions, but also run with the occasions, and not strain their credit or strength to over-ha", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_394" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(35) Another part of this knowledge seemeth to have some repugnancy with the former two, but not as I understand it; and it is that which Demosthenes uttereth in high terms: _Et quemadmodum receptum e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (35) Another part of this knowledge seemeth to have some repugnancy with the former two, but not as I understand it; and it is that which Demosthenes uttereth in high terms: _Et quemadmodum receptum est_, _ut exercitum ducat imperator_, _sic et a cordatis viris res ipsæ ducendæ_; _ut quæipsis vident", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_395" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(36) Another part of this knowledge is the observing a good mediocrity in the declaring or not declaring a man’s self: for although depth of secrecy, and making way (_qualis est via navis in mari_, wh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (36) Another part of this knowledge is the observing a good mediocrity in the declaring or not declaring a man’s self: for although depth of secrecy, and making way (_qualis est via navis in mari_, which the French calleth _sourdes menées_, when men set things in work without opening themselves at a", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_396" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(37) Another precept of this architecture of fortune is to accustom our minds to judge of the proportion or value of things, as they conduce and are material to our particular ends; and that to do sub...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (37) Another precept of this architecture of fortune is to accustom our minds to judge of the proportion or value of things, as they conduce and are material to our particular ends; and that to do substantially and not superficially. For we shall find the logical part (as I may term it) of some men’", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_397" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(38) As for the true marshalling of men’s pursuits towards their fortune, as they are more or less material, I hold them to stand thus. First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (38) As for the true marshalling of men’s pursuits towards their fortune, as they are more or less material, I hold them to stand thus. First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will rem", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_398" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(39) Another precept of this knowledge is not to embrace any matters which do occupy too great a quantity of time, but to have that sounding in a man’s ears, _Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile temp...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (39) Another precept of this knowledge is not to embrace any matters which do occupy too great a quantity of time, but to have that sounding in a man’s ears, _Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus_: and that is the cause why those which take their course of rising by professions of burden, as ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_399" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(40) Another precept of this knowledge is to imitate nature, which doth nothing in vain; which surely a man may do if he do well interlace his business, and bend not his mind too much upon that which ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (40) Another precept of this knowledge is to imitate nature, which doth nothing in vain; which surely a man may do if he do well interlace his business, and bend not his mind too much upon that which he principally intendeth. For a man ought in every particular action so to carry the motions of his ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_400" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(41) Another precept of this knowledge is, not to engage a man’s self peremptorily in anything, though it seem not liable to accident; but ever to have a window to fly out at, or a way to retire: foll...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (41) Another precept of this knowledge is, not to engage a man’s self peremptorily in anything, though it seem not liable to accident; but ever to have a window to fly out at, or a way to retire: following the wisdom in the ancient fable of the two frogs, which consulted when their plash was dry whi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_401" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(42) Another precept of this knowledge is that ancient precept of Bias, construed not to any point of perfidiousness, but to caution and moderation, _Et ama tanquam inimicus futurus et odi tanquam ama...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (42) Another precept of this knowledge is that ancient precept of Bias, construed not to any point of perfidiousness, but to caution and moderation, _Et ama tanquam inimicus futurus et odi tanquam amaturus_.\nFor it utterly betrayeth all utility for men to embark themselves too far into unfortunate f", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_402" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(43) But I continue this beyond the measure of an example; led, because I would not have such knowledges, which I note as deficient, to be thought things imaginative or in the air, or an observation o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (43) But I continue this beyond the measure of an example; led, because I would not have such knowledges, which I note as deficient, to be thought things imaginative or in the air, or an observation or two much made of, but things of bulk and mass, whereof an end is more hardly made than a beginning", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_403" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(44) But as Cicero, when he setteth down an idea of a perfect orator, doth not mean that every pleader should be such; and so likewise, when a prince or a courtier hath been described by such as have ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (44) But as Cicero, when he setteth down an idea of a perfect orator, doth not mean that every pleader should be such; and so likewise, when a prince or a courtier hath been described by such as have handled those subjects, the mould hath used to be made according to the perfection of the art, and n", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_404" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(45) But it must be remembered all this while, that the precepts which we have set down are of that kind which may be counted and called _Bonæ Artes_. As for evil arts, if a man would set down for him...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (45) But it must be remembered all this while, that the precepts which we have set down are of that kind which may be counted and called _Bonæ Artes_. As for evil arts, if a man would set down for himself that principle of Machiavel, “That a man seek not to attain virtue itself, but the appearance o", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_405" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(46) But men, if they be in their own power, and do bear and sustain themselves, and be not carried away with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, ought in the pursuit of their own fortune to set befor...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (46) But men, if they be in their own power, and do bear and sustain themselves, and be not carried away with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, ought in the pursuit of their own fortune to set before their eyes not only that general map of the world, “That all things are vanity and vexation of spi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_406" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And so of the contrary. And secondly they ought to look up to the Eternal Providence and Divine Judgment, which often subverteth the wisdom of evil plots and imaginations, according to that scripture,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And so of the contrary. And secondly they ought to look up to the Eternal Providence and Divine Judgment, which often subverteth the wisdom of evil plots and imaginations, according to that scripture, “He hath conceived mischief, and shall bring forth a vain thing.” And although men should refrain t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_408" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "yet the divine foundation is upon the rock. But this may serve for a taste of that knowledge which I noted as deficient.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: yet the divine foundation is upon the rock. But this may serve for a taste of that knowledge which I noted as deficient.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_409" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(47) Concerning government, it is a part of knowledge secret and retired in both these respects in which things are deemed secret; for some things are secret because they are hard to know, and some be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (47) Concerning government, it is a part of knowledge secret and retired in both these respects in which things are deemed secret; for some things are secret because they are hard to know, and some because they are not fit to utter. We see all governments are obscure and invisible:", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_410" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Such is the description of governments. We see the government of God over the world is hidden, insomuch as it seemeth to participate of much irregularity and confusion. The government of the soul in m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Such is the description of governments. We see the government of God over the world is hidden, insomuch as it seemeth to participate of much irregularity and confusion. The government of the soul in moving the body is inward and profound, and the passages thereof hardly to be reduced to demonstratio", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_411" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(48) But contrariwise in the governors towards the governed, all things ought as far as the frailty of man permitteth to be manifest and revealed. For so it is expressed in the Scriptures touching the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (48) But contrariwise in the governors towards the governed, all things ought as far as the frailty of man permitteth to be manifest and revealed. For so it is expressed in the Scriptures touching the government of God, that this globe, which seemeth to us a dark and shady body, is in the view of Go", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_412" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(49) Notwithstanding, for the more public part of government, which is laws, I think good to note only one deficiency; which is, that all those which have written of laws have written either as philos...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (49) Notwithstanding, for the more public part of government, which is laws, I think good to note only one deficiency; which is, that all those which have written of laws have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for i", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_413" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(50) And for your Majesty’s laws of England, I could say much of their dignity, and somewhat of their defect; but they cannot but excel the civil laws in fitness for the government, for the civil law ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (50) And for your Majesty’s laws of England, I could say much of their dignity, and somewhat of their defect; but they cannot but excel the civil laws in fitness for the government, for the civil law was _nonhos quæsitum munus in usus_; it was not made for the countries which it governeth. Hereof I ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_414" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIV. Thus have I concluded this portion of learning touching civil knowledge; and with civil knowledge have concluded human philosophy; and with human philosophy, philosophy in general. And being now...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIV. Thus have I concluded this portion of learning touching civil knowledge; and with civil knowledge have concluded human philosophy; and with human philosophy, philosophy in general. And being now at some pause, looking back into that I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me (_si nunqua", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_415" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXV. (1) The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we are to obey His law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe His word, thoug...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXV. (1) The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we are to obey His law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe His word, though we find a reluctation in our reason. For if we believe only that which is agreeable to our sense w", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_416" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(2) Howbeit (if we will truly consider of it) more worthy it is to believe than to know as we now know. For in knowledge man’s mind suffereth from sense: but in belief it suffereth from spirit, such o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (2) Howbeit (if we will truly consider of it) more worthy it is to believe than to know as we now know. For in knowledge man’s mind suffereth from sense: but in belief it suffereth from spirit, such one as it holdeth for more authorised than itself and so suffereth from the worthier agent. Otherwise", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_417" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(3) Wherefore we conclude that sacred theology (which in our idiom we call divinity) is grounded only upon the word and oracle of God, and not upon the light of nature: for it is written, _Cæli enarra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (3) Wherefore we conclude that sacred theology (which in our idiom we call divinity) is grounded only upon the word and oracle of God, and not upon the light of nature: for it is written, _Cæli enarrant gloriam Dei_; but it is not written, _Cæli enarrant voluntatem Dei_: but of that it is said, _Ad ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_418" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(4) The use notwithstanding of reason in spiritual things, and the latitude thereof, is very great and general: for it is not for nothing that the apostle calleth religion “our reasonable service of G...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (4) The use notwithstanding of reason in spiritual things, and the latitude thereof, is very great and general: for it is not for nothing that the apostle calleth religion “our reasonable service of God;” insomuch as the very ceremonies and figures of the old law were full of reason and significatio", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_419" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(5) The use of human reason in religion is of two sorts: the former, in the conception and apprehension of the mysteries of God to us revealed; the other, in the inferring and deriving of doctrine and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (5) The use of human reason in religion is of two sorts: the former, in the conception and apprehension of the mysteries of God to us revealed; the other, in the inferring and deriving of doctrine and direction thereupon. The former extendeth to the mysteries themselves; but how? by way of illustrat", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_420" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(6) Here therefore I note this deficiency, that there hath not been, to my understanding, sufficiently inquired and handled the true limits and use of reason in spiritual things, as a kind of divine d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (6) Here therefore I note this deficiency, that there hath not been, to my understanding, sufficiently inquired and handled the true limits and use of reason in spiritual things, as a kind of divine dialectic: which for that it is not done, it seemeth to me a thing usual, by pretext of true conceivi", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_421" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(7) Upon this I have insisted the more, in regard of the great and blessed use thereof; for this point well laboured and defined of would in my judgment be an opiate to stay and bridle not only the va...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (7) Upon this I have insisted the more, in regard of the great and blessed use thereof; for this point well laboured and defined of would in my judgment be an opiate to stay and bridle not only the vanity of curious speculations, wherewith the schools labour, but the fury of controversies, wherewith", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_422" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(8) Divinity hath two principal parts: the matter informed or revealed, and the nature of the information or revelation; and with the latter we will begin, because it hath most coherence with that whi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (8) Divinity hath two principal parts: the matter informed or revealed, and the nature of the information or revelation; and with the latter we will begin, because it hath most coherence with that which we have now last handled. The nature of the information consisteth of three branches: the limits ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_423" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(9) Here again I may rather give it in advice than note it as deficient, that the points fundamental, and the points of further perfection only, ought to be with piety and wisdom distinguished; a subj...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (9) Here again I may rather give it in advice than note it as deficient, that the points fundamental, and the points of further perfection only, ought to be with piety and wisdom distinguished; a subject tending to much like end as that I noted before; for as that other were likely to abate the numb", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_424" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(10) For the obtaining of the information, it resteth upon the true and sound interpretation of the Scriptures, which are the fountains of the water of life. The interpretations of the Scriptures are ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (10) For the obtaining of the information, it resteth upon the true and sound interpretation of the Scriptures, which are the fountains of the water of life. The interpretations of the Scriptures are of two sorts: methodical, and solute or at large. For this divine water, which excelleth so much tha", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_425" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(11) In this men have sought three things, a summary brevity, a compacted strength, and a complete perfection; whereof the two first they fail to find, and the last they ought not to seek. For as to b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (11) In this men have sought three things, a summary brevity, a compacted strength, and a complete perfection; whereof the two first they fail to find, and the last they ought not to seek. For as to brevity, we see in all summary methods, while men purpose to abridge, they give cause to dilate. For ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_426" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(12) And for strength, it is true that knowledges reduced into exact methods have a show of strength, in that each part seemeth to support and sustain the other; but this is more satisfactory than sub...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (12) And for strength, it is true that knowledges reduced into exact methods have a show of strength, in that each part seemeth to support and sustain the other; but this is more satisfactory than substantial, like unto buildings which stand by architecture and compaction, which are more subject to ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_427" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(13) And as for perfection or completeness in divinity, it is not to be sought, which makes this course of artificial divinity the more suspect.\nFor he that will reduce a knowledge into an art will ma...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (13) And as for perfection or completeness in divinity, it is not to be sought, which makes this course of artificial divinity the more suspect.\nFor he that will reduce a knowledge into an art will make it round and uniform; but in divinity many things must be left abrupt, and concluded with this: _", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_428" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(14) As to the interpretation of the Scriptures solute and at large, there have been divers kinds introduced and devised; some of them rather curious and unsafe than sober and warranted. Notwithstandi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (14) As to the interpretation of the Scriptures solute and at large, there have been divers kinds introduced and devised; some of them rather curious and unsafe than sober and warranted. Notwithstanding, thus much must be confessed, that the Scriptures, being given by inspiration and not by human re", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_429" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(15) From the former two of these have been drawn certain senses and expositions of Scriptures, which had need be contained within the bounds of sobriety—the one anagogical, and the other philosophica...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (15) From the former two of these have been drawn certain senses and expositions of Scriptures, which had need be contained within the bounds of sobriety—the one anagogical, and the other philosophical. But as to the former, man is not to prevent his time: _Videmus nunc per speculum in ænigmate_, _t", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_430" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(16) But for the latter, it hath been extremely set on foot of late time by the school of Paracelsus, and some others, that have pretended to find the truth of all natural philosophy in the Scriptures...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (16) But for the latter, it hath been extremely set on foot of late time by the school of Paracelsus, and some others, that have pretended to find the truth of all natural philosophy in the Scriptures; scandalising and traducing all other philosophy as heathenish and profane. But there is no such en", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_431" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(17) But the two latter points, known to God and unknown to man, touching the secrets of the heart and the successions of time, doth make a just and sound difference between the manner of the expositi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (17) But the two latter points, known to God and unknown to man, touching the secrets of the heart and the successions of time, doth make a just and sound difference between the manner of the exposition of the Scriptures and all other books. For it is an excellent observation which hath been made up", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_432" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(18) In this part touching the exposition of the Scriptures, I can report no deficiency; but by way of remembrance this I will add. In perusing books of divinity I find many books of controversies, an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (18) In this part touching the exposition of the Scriptures, I can report no deficiency; but by way of remembrance this I will add. In perusing books of divinity I find many books of controversies, and many of commonplaces and treatises, a mass of positive divinity, as it is made an art: a number of", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_433" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(19) The matter informed by divinity is of two kinds: matter of belief and truth of opinion, and matter of service and adoration; which is also judged and directed by the former—the one being as the i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (19) The matter informed by divinity is of two kinds: matter of belief and truth of opinion, and matter of service and adoration; which is also judged and directed by the former—the one being as the internal soul of religion, and the other as the external body thereof. And, therefore, the heathen re", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_434" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(20) But out of these two do result and issue four main branches of divinity: faith, manners, liturgy, and government. Faith containeth the doctrine of the nature of God, of the attributes of God, and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (20) But out of these two do result and issue four main branches of divinity: faith, manners, liturgy, and government. Faith containeth the doctrine of the nature of God, of the attributes of God, and of the works of God. The nature of God consisteth of three persons in unity of Godhead. The attribu", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_435" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(21) For manners, the doctrine thereof is contained in the law, which discloseth sin. The law itself is divided, according to the edition thereof, into the law of nature, the law moral, and the law po...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (21) For manners, the doctrine thereof is contained in the law, which discloseth sin. The law itself is divided, according to the edition thereof, into the law of nature, the law moral, and the law positive; and according to the style, into negative and affirmative, prohibitions and commandments. Si", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_436" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(22) For the liturgy or service, it consisteth of the reciprocal acts between God and man; which, on the part of God, are the preaching of the word, and the sacraments, which are seals to the covenant...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (22) For the liturgy or service, it consisteth of the reciprocal acts between God and man; which, on the part of God, are the preaching of the word, and the sacraments, which are seals to the covenant, or as the visible word; and on the part of man, invocation of the name of God; and under the law, ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_437" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(23) And for the government of the Church, it consisteth of the patrimony of the Church, the franchises of the Church, and the offices and jurisdictions of the Church, and the laws of the Church direc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (23) And for the government of the Church, it consisteth of the patrimony of the Church, the franchises of the Church, and the offices and jurisdictions of the Church, and the laws of the Church directing the whole; all which have two considerations, the one in themselves, the other how they stand c", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_438" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(24) This matter of divinity is handled either in form of instruction of truth, or in form of confutation of falsehood. The declinations from religion, besides the privative, which is atheism and the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (24) This matter of divinity is handled either in form of instruction of truth, or in form of confutation of falsehood. The declinations from religion, besides the privative, which is atheism and the branches thereof, are three—heresies, idolatry, and witchcraft: heresies, when we serve the true God", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_439" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "(25) These things I have passed over so briefly because I can report no deficiency concerning them: for I can find no space or ground that lieth vacant and unsown in the matter of divinity, so diligen...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: (25) These things I have passed over so briefly because I can report no deficiency concerning them: for I can find no space or ground that lieth vacant and unsown in the matter of divinity, so diligent have men been either in sowing of good seed, or in sowing of tares.", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_440" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Thus have I made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I could discover; with a note and description of those parts which seem to me not constantly occupate, o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Thus have I made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I could discover; with a note and description of those parts which seem to me not constantly occupate, or not well converted by the labour of man. In which, if I have in any point receded from that which ", "source": "The Advancement of Learning", "segment_id": "The Advancement of Learning_para_441" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In some things it is more hard to attempt than to achieve, which falleth out when the difficulty is not so much in the matter or subject, as it is in the crossness and indisposition of the mind of man...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In some things it is more hard to attempt than to achieve, which falleth out when the difficulty is not so much in the matter or subject, as it is in the crossness and indisposition of the mind of man to think of any such thing, to will or to resolve it. And therefore Titus Livius in his declamatory", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_0" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE IMPEDIMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE TIMES, AND IN DIVERSION OF WITS, BEING THE 5TH CHAPTER, A SMALL FRAGMENT IN THE BEGINNING OF THAT CHAPTER.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE IMPEDIMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE TIMES, AND IN DIVERSION OF WITS, BEING THE 5TH CHAPTER, A SMALL FRAGMENT IN THE BEGINNING OF THAT CHAPTER.", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_1" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The encounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge; so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The encounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge; so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the ground to nourish or raise this plant, but the ill season also of the weather by which it hath been", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_2" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For as for the uttermost antiquity which is like fame that muffles her head and tells tales, I cannot presume much of it; for I would not willingly imitate the manner of those that describe maps, whic...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For as for the uttermost antiquity which is like fame that muffles her head and tells tales, I cannot presume much of it; for I would not willingly imitate the manner of those that describe maps, which when they come to some far countries whereof they have no knowledge, set down how there be great w", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_3" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And as there could be no great collection of wits of several parts or nations, so neither could there be any succession of wits of several times, whereby one might refine the other, in regard they had...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And as there could be no great collection of wits of several parts or nations, so neither could there be any succession of wits of several times, whereby one might refine the other, in regard they had not history to any purpose. And the manner of their traditions was utterly unfit and unproper for a", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_4" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE IMPEDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR WANT OF A TRUE SUCCESSION OF WITS, AND THAT HITHERTO THE LENGTH OF ONE MAN'S LIFE HATH BEEN THE GREATEST MEASURE OF KNOWLEDGE, BEING THE 6TH CHAPTER, THE WHOLE CHAPTER...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE IMPEDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR WANT OF A TRUE SUCCESSION OF WITS, AND THAT HITHERTO THE LENGTH OF ONE MAN'S LIFE HATH BEEN THE GREATEST MEASURE OF KNOWLEDGE, BEING THE 6TH CHAPTER, THE WHOLE CHAPTER.", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_5" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In arts mechanical the first device comes shortest and time addeth and perfecteth. But in sciences of conceit the first author goeth furthest and time leeseth and corrupteth. Painting, artillery, sail...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In arts mechanical the first device comes shortest and time addeth and perfecteth. But in sciences of conceit the first author goeth furthest and time leeseth and corrupteth. Painting, artillery, sailing, and the like, grossly managed at first, by time accommodate and refined. The philosophies and s", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_6" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The error is both in the deliverer and in the receiver. He that delivereth knowledge desireth to deliver it in such form as may be soonest believed, and not as may be easiliest examined. He that recei...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The error is both in the deliverer and in the receiver. He that delivereth knowledge desireth to deliver it in such form as may be soonest believed, and not as may be easiliest examined. He that receiveth knowledge desireth rather present satisfaction than expectant search, and so rather not to doub", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_7" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Then begin men to aspire to the second prizes; to be a profound interpreter and commenter, to be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical compounder and abridger. And this is the unfortunate ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Then begin men to aspire to the second prizes; to be a profound interpreter and commenter, to be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical compounder and abridger. And this is the unfortunate succession of wits which the world hath yet had, whereby the patrimony of all knowledge goeth not on", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_8" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is sensible to think that when men enter first into search and inquiry, according to the several frames and compositions of their understanding they light upon different conceits, and so all opinio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is sensible to think that when men enter first into search and inquiry, according to the several frames and compositions of their understanding they light upon different conceits, and so all opinions and doubts are beaten over, and then men having made a taste of all wax weary of variety, and so ", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_9" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But truth is contrary, and that time is like a river which carrieth down things which are light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is sad and weighty. For howsoever governments have sev...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But truth is contrary, and that time is like a river which carrieth down things which are light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is sad and weighty. For howsoever governments have several forms, sometimes one governing, sometimes few, sometimes the multitude; yet the state of knowle", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_10" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Cicero, the orator, willing to magnify his own profession, and thereupon spending many words to maintain that eloquence was not a shop of good words and elegancies but a treasury and receipt of all kn...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Cicero, the orator, willing to magnify his own profession, and thereupon spending many words to maintain that eloquence was not a shop of good words and elegancies but a treasury and receipt of all knowledges, so far forth as may appertain to the handling and moving of the minds and affections of me", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_11" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So if the moral philosophers that have spent such an infinite quantity of debate touching Good and the highest good, had cast their eye abroad upon nature and beheld the appetite that is in all things...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So if the moral philosophers that have spent such an infinite quantity of debate touching Good and the highest good, had cast their eye abroad upon nature and beheld the appetite that is in all things to receive and to give; the one motion affecting preservation and the other multiplication; which a", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_12" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It appeareth then how rarely the wits and labours of men have been converted to the severe and original inquisition of knowledge; and in those who have pretended, what hurt hath been done by the affec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It appeareth then how rarely the wits and labours of men have been converted to the severe and original inquisition of knowledge; and in those who have pretended, what hurt hath been done by the affectation of professors and the distraction of such as were no professors; and how there was never in e", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_13" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The Scripture speaking of the worst sort of error saith, ERRARE FECIT COS IN INVIO ET NON IN VIA. For a man may wander in the way, by rounding up and down. But if men have failed in their very directi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The Scripture speaking of the worst sort of error saith, ERRARE FECIT COS IN INVIO ET NON IN VIA. For a man may wander in the way, by rounding up and down. But if men have failed in their very direction and address that error will never by good fortune correct itself.\nNow it hath fared with men in t", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_14" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For I find that even those that have sought knowledge for itself, and not for benefit or ostentation or any practical enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to themselves...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For I find that even those that have sought knowledge for itself, and not for benefit or ostentation or any practical enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to themselves a wrong mark, namely satisfaction (which men call truth) and not operation. For as in the courts an", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_15" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But yet nevertheless here I may be mistaken, by reason of some which have much in their pen the referring sciences to action and the use of man, which mean quite another matter than I do. For they mea...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But yet nevertheless here I may be mistaken, by reason of some which have much in their pen the referring sciences to action and the use of man, which mean quite another matter than I do. For they mean a contriving of directions and precepts for readiness of practice, which I discommend not, so it b", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_16" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The plainest method and most directly pertinent to this intention, will be to make distribution of sciences, arts, inventions, works, and their portions, according to the use and tribute which they yi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The plainest method and most directly pertinent to this intention, will be to make distribution of sciences, arts, inventions, works, and their portions, according to the use and tribute which they yield and render to the conditions of man's life, and under those several uses, being as several offic", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_17" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It appeareth then what is now in proposition not by general circumlocution but by particular note. No former philosophy varied in terms or method; no new PLACET or speculation upon particulars already...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It appeareth then what is now in proposition not by general circumlocution but by particular note. No former philosophy varied in terms or method; no new PLACET or speculation upon particulars already known; no referring to action by any manual of practice; but the revealing and discovering of new i", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_18" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "OF THE INTERNAL AND PROFOUND ERRORS AND SUPERSTITIONS IN THE NATURE OF THE MIND, AND OF THE FOUR SORTS OF IDOLS OR FICTIONS WHICH OFFER THEMSELVES TO THE UNDERSTANDING IN THE INQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE;...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: OF THE INTERNAL AND PROFOUND ERRORS AND SUPERSTITIONS IN THE NATURE OF THE MIND, AND OF THE FOUR SORTS OF IDOLS OR FICTIONS WHICH OFFER THEMSELVES TO THE UNDERSTANDING IN THE INQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE; BEING THE 16TH CHAPTER, AND THIS A SMALL FRAGMENT THEREOF, BEING A PREFACE TO THE INWARD ELENCHES O", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_19" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The opinion of Epicurus that the gods were of human shape, was rather justly derided than seriously confuted by the other sects, demanding whether every kind of sensible creatures did not think their ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The opinion of Epicurus that the gods were of human shape, was rather justly derided than seriously confuted by the other sects, demanding whether every kind of sensible creatures did not think their own figure fairest, as the horse, the bull, and the like, which found no beauty but in their own for", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_20" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I do find therefore in this enchanted glass four Idols or false appearances of several and distinct sorts, every sort comprehending many subdivisions: the first sort, I call idols of the NATION or TRI...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I do find therefore in this enchanted glass four Idols or false appearances of several and distinct sorts, every sort comprehending many subdivisions: the first sort, I call idols of the NATION or TRIBE; the second, idols of the PALACE; the third, idols of the CAVE; and the fourth, idols of the THEA", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_21" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That in deciding and determining of the truth of knowledge, men have put themselves upon trials not competent. That antiquity and authority; common and confessed notions; the natural and yielding cons...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That in deciding and determining of the truth of knowledge, men have put themselves upon trials not competent. That antiquity and authority; common and confessed notions; the natural and yielding consent of the mind; the harmony and coherence of a knowledge in itself; the establishing of principles ", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_22" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the error in propounding chiefly the search of causes and productions of things concrete, which are infinite and transitory, and not of abstract natures, which are few and permanent. That these nat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the error in propounding chiefly the search of causes and productions of things concrete, which are infinite and transitory, and not of abstract natures, which are few and permanent. That these natures are as the alphabet or simple letters, whereof the variety of things consisteth; or as the colo", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_23" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the error in propounding the search of the materials or dead beginnings or principles of things, and not the nature of motions, inclinations, and applications. That the whole scope of the former se...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the error in propounding the search of the materials or dead beginnings or principles of things, and not the nature of motions, inclinations, and applications. That the whole scope of the former search is impertinent and vain; both because there are no such beginnings, and if there were they coul", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_24" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the great error of inquiring knowledge in Anticipations. That I call Anticipations the voluntary collections that the mind maketh of knowledge; which is every man's reason. That though this be a so...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the great error of inquiring knowledge in Anticipations. That I call Anticipations the voluntary collections that the mind maketh of knowledge; which is every man's reason. That though this be a solemn thing, and serves the turn to negotiate between man and man (because of the conformity and part", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_25" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That the mind of a man, as it is not a vessel of that content or receipt to comprehend knowledge without helps and supplies, so again it is not sincere, but of an ill and corrupt tincture. Of the inhe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That the mind of a man, as it is not a vessel of that content or receipt to comprehend knowledge without helps and supplies, so again it is not sincere, but of an ill and corrupt tincture. Of the inherent and profound errors and superstitions in the nature of the mind, and of the four sorts of Idols", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_26" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the errors of such as have descended and applied themselves to experience, and attempted to induce knowledge upon particulars. That they have not had the resolution and strength of mind to free the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the errors of such as have descended and applied themselves to experience, and attempted to induce knowledge upon particulars. That they have not had the resolution and strength of mind to free themselves wholly from Anticipations, but have made a confusion and intermixture of Anticipations and o", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_27" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That the cautels and devices put in practice in the delivery of knowledge for the covering and palliating of ignorance, and the gracing and overvaluing of that they utter, are without number; but none...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That the cautels and devices put in practice in the delivery of knowledge for the covering and palliating of ignorance, and the gracing and overvaluing of that they utter, are without number; but none more bold and more hurtful than two; the one that men have used of a few observations upon any subj", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_28" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the impediments which have been in the affections, the principle whereof hath been despair or diffidence, and the strong apprehension of the difficulty, obscurity, and infiniteness which belongeth ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the impediments which have been in the affections, the principle whereof hath been despair or diffidence, and the strong apprehension of the difficulty, obscurity, and infiniteness which belongeth to the invention of knowledge, and that men have not known their own strength, and that the supposed", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_29" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the impediments which have been in the two extreme humours of admiration of antiquity and love of novelty, and again of over-servile reverence or over-light scorn of the opinions of others.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the impediments which have been in the two extreme humours of admiration of antiquity and love of novelty, and again of over-servile reverence or over-light scorn of the opinions of others.", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_30" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the impediments which have been in the affection of pride, specially of one kind, which is the disdain of dwelling and being conversant much in experiences and particulars, specially such as are vu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the impediments which have been in the affection of pride, specially of one kind, which is the disdain of dwelling and being conversant much in experiences and particulars, specially such as are vulgar in occurrency, and base and ignoble in use. That besides certain higher mysteries of pride, gen", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_31" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the impediments which have been in the state of heathen religion and other superstitions and errors of religion. And that in the true religion there hath not nor is any impediment, except it be by ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the impediments which have been in the state of heathen religion and other superstitions and errors of religion. And that in the true religion there hath not nor is any impediment, except it be by accident or intermixture of humour. That a religion which consisteth in rites and forms of adoration", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_32" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of the impediments which have been in the nature of society and the policies of state. That there is no composition of estate or society, nor order or quality of persons, which have not some point of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of the impediments which have been in the nature of society and the policies of state. That there is no composition of estate or society, nor order or quality of persons, which have not some point of contrariety towards true knowledge. That monarchies incline wits to profit and pleasure, and commonw", "source": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature_para_33" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months space, and more. But the wind came about, and settled in the west fo", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_0" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And it came to pass that the next day about evening we saw within a kenning before us, towards the north, as it were thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the S...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And it came to pass that the next day about evening we saw within a kenning before us, towards the north, as it were thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown; and might have islands, or continents, that hitherto were not come to ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_1" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "During which time, there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: During which time, there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard our ship, without any show of distrust at all. And when he saw one of our number, present himself so", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_2" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Consulting hereupon amongst ourselves, we were much perplexed. The denial of landing and hasty warning us away troubled us much; on the other side, to find that the people had languages, and were so f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Consulting hereupon amongst ourselves, we were much perplexed. The denial of landing and hasty warning us away troubled us much; on the other side, to find that the people had languages, and were so full of humanity, did comfort us not a little. And above all, the sign of the cross to that instrumen", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_3" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "About three hours after we had dispatched our answer, there came towards us a person (as it seemed) of place. He had on him a gown with wide sleeves, of a kind of water chamolet, of an excellent azure...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: About three hours after we had dispatched our answer, there came towards us a person (as it seemed) of place. He had on him a gown with wide sleeves, of a kind of water chamolet, of an excellent azure colour, fair more glossy than ours; his under apparel was green; and so was his hat, being in the f", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_4" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "When we were come within six yards of their boat, they called to us to stay, and not to approach farther; which we did. And thereupon the man, whom I before described, stood up, and with a loud voice,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: When we were come within six yards of their boat, they called to us to stay, and not to approach farther; which we did. And thereupon the man, whom I before described, stood up, and with a loud voice, in Spanish, asked, \"Are ye Christians?\" We answered, \"We were;\" fearing the less, because of the cr", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_5" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The next morning early, there came to us the same officer that came to us at first with his cane, and told us, He came to conduct us to the Strangers' House; and that he had prevented the hour, becaus...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The next morning early, there came to us the same officer that came to us at first with his cane, and told us, He came to conduct us to the Strangers' House; and that he had prevented the hour, because we might have the whole day before us, for our business. \"For,\" said he, \"if you will follow my ad", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_6" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The Strangers' House is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. He brought us f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The Strangers' House is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. He brought us first into a fair parlour above stairs, and then asked us, \"What number of persons we were? And how m", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_7" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Soon after our dinner was served in; which was right good viands, both for bread and treat: better than any collegiate diet, that I have known in Europe. We had also drink of three sorts, all wholesom...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Soon after our dinner was served in; which was right good viands, both for bread and treat: better than any collegiate diet, that I have known in Europe. We had also drink of three sorts, all wholesome and good; wine of the grape; a drink of grain, such as is with us our ale, but more clear: And a k", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_8" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The next day, after that our trouble of carriage and removing of our men and goods out of our ship, was somewhat settled and quiet, I thought good to call our company together; and when they were asse...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The next day, after that our trouble of carriage and removing of our men and goods out of our ship, was somewhat settled and quiet, I thought good to call our company together; and when they were assembled, said unto them; \"My dear friends, let us know ourselves, and how it standeth with us. We are ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_9" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The morrow after our three days were past, there came to us a new man, that we had not seen before, clothed in blue as the former was, save that his turban was white, with a small red cross on the top...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The morrow after our three days were past, there came to us a new man, that we had not seen before, clothed in blue as the former was, save that his turban was white, with a small red cross on the top. He had also a tippet of fine linen. At his coming in, he did bend to us a little, and put his arms", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_10" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We answered, after we had looked awhile one upon another, admiring this gracious and parent-like usage; \"That we could not tell what to say: for we wanted words to express our thanks; and his noble fr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We answered, after we had looked awhile one upon another, admiring this gracious and parent-like usage; \"That we could not tell what to say: for we wanted words to express our thanks; and his noble free offers left us nothing to ask. It seemed to us, that we had before us a picture of our salvation ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_11" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The next day about ten of the clock, the Governor came to us again, and after salutations, said familiarly; \"That he was come to visit us;\" and called for a chair, and sat him down: and we, being some...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The next day about ten of the clock, the Governor came to us again, and after salutations, said familiarly; \"That he was come to visit us;\" and called for a chair, and sat him down: and we, being some ten of us, (the rest were of the meaner sort, or else gone abroad,) sat down with him, And when we ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_12" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We answered; \"That we humbly thanked him that he would give us leave so to do: and that we conceived by the taste we had already, that there was no worldly thing on earth, more worthy to be known than...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We answered; \"That we humbly thanked him that he would give us leave so to do: and that we conceived by the taste we had already, that there was no worldly thing on earth, more worthy to be known than the state of that happy land. But above all,\" (we said,) \"since that we were met from the several e", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_13" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"About twenty years after the ascension of our Saviour, it came to pass, that there was seen by the people of Renfusa, (a city upon the eastern coast of our island,) within night, (the night was cloud...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"About twenty years after the ascension of our Saviour, it came to pass, that there was seen by the people of Renfusa, (a city upon the eastern coast of our island,) within night, (the night was cloudy, and calm,) as it might be some mile into the sea, a great pillar of light; not sharp, but in form", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_14" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"'LORD God of heaven and earth, thou hast vouchsafed of thy grace to those of our order, to know thy works of Creation, and the secrets of them: and to discern (as far as appertaineth to the generatio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"'LORD God of heaven and earth, thou hast vouchsafed of thy grace to those of our order, to know thy works of Creation, and the secrets of them: and to discern (as far as appertaineth to the generations of men) between divine miracles, works of nature, works of art, and impostures and illusions of a", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_15" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"When he had made his prayer, he presently found the boat he was in, moveable and unbound; whereas all the rest remained still fast; and taking that for an assurance of leave to approach, he caused th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"When he had made his prayer, he presently found the boat he was in, moveable and unbound; whereas all the rest remained still fast; and taking that for an assurance of leave to approach, he caused the boat to be softly and with silence rowed towards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the pillar a", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_16" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"'I, Bartholomew, a servant of the Highest, and Apostle of Jesus Christ, was warned by an angel that appeareth to me, in a vision of glory, that I should commit this ark to the floods of the sea.\nTher...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"'I, Bartholomew, a servant of the Highest, and Apostle of Jesus Christ, was warned by an angel that appeareth to me, in a vision of glory, that I should commit this ark to the floods of the sea.\nTherefore I do testify and declare unto that people where God shall ordain this ark to come to land, tha", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_17" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"There was also in both these writings, as well the Book, as the Letter, wrought a great miracle, conform to that of the Apostles, in the original Gift of Tongues. For there being at that time in this...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"There was also in both these writings, as well the Book, as the Letter, wrought a great miracle, conform to that of the Apostles, in the original Gift of Tongues. For there being at that time in this land Hebrews, Persians, and Indians, besides the natives, every one read upon the Book, and Letter,", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_18" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The next day, the same governor came again to us, immediately after dinner, and excused himself, saying; \"That the day before he was called from us, somewhat abruptly, but now he would make us amends,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The next day, the same governor came again to us, immediately after dinner, and excused himself, saying; \"That the day before he was called from us, somewhat abruptly, but now he would make us amends, and spend time with us if we held his company and conference agreeable.\" We answered, \"That we held", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_19" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "One of our number said, after a little pause; that there was a matter, we were no less desirous to know, than fearful to ask, lest we might presume too far. But encouraged by his rare humanity towards...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: One of our number said, after a little pause; that there was a matter, we were no less desirous to know, than fearful to ask, lest we might presume too far. But encouraged by his rare humanity towards us, (that could scarce think ourselves strangers, being his vowed and professed servants,) we would", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_20" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "At this speech the Governor gave a gracious smile, and said; \"That we did well to ask pardon for this question we now asked: for that it imported, as if we thought this land, a land of magicians, that...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: At this speech the Governor gave a gracious smile, and said; \"That we did well to ask pardon for this question we now asked: for that it imported, as if we thought this land, a land of magicians, that sent forth spirits of the air into all parts, to bring them news and intelligence of other countrie", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_21" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"You shall understand (that which perhaps you will scarce think credible) that about three thousand years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world, (especially for remote voyages,) was great...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"You shall understand (that which perhaps you will scarce think credible) that about three thousand years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world, (especially for remote voyages,) was greater than at this day. Do not think with yourselves, that I know not how much it is increased with you", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_22" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"At that time, this land was known and frequented by the ships and vessels of all the nations before named. And (as it cometh to pass) they had many times men of other countries, that were no sailors,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"At that time, this land was known and frequented by the ships and vessels of all the nations before named. And (as it cometh to pass) they had many times men of other countries, that were no sailors, that came with them; as Persians, Chaldeans, Arabians; so as almost all nations of might and fame r", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_23" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"At the same time, and an age after, or more, the inhabitants of the great Atlantis did flourish. For though the narration and description, which is made by a great man with you; that the descendants ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"At the same time, and an age after, or more, the inhabitants of the great Atlantis did flourish. For though the narration and description, which is made by a great man with you; that the descendants of Neptune planted there; and of the magnificent temple, palace, city, and hill; and the manifold st", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_24" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"But the divine revenge overtook not long after those proud enterprises. For within less than the space of one hundred years, the great Atlantis was utterly lost and destroyed: not by a great earthqua...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"But the divine revenge overtook not long after those proud enterprises. For within less than the space of one hundred years, the great Atlantis was utterly lost and destroyed: not by a great earthquake, as your man saith; (for that whole tract is little subject to earthquakes;) but by a particular'", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_25" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"So as marvel you not at the thin population of America, nor at the rudeness and ignorance of the people; for you must account your inhabitants of America as a young people; younger a thousand years, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"So as marvel you not at the thin population of America, nor at the rudeness and ignorance of the people; for you must account your inhabitants of America as a young people; younger a thousand years, at the least, than the rest of the world: for that there was so much time between the universal floo", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_26" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"As for the other parts of the world, it is most manifest that in the ages following (whether it were in respect of wars, or by a natural revolution of time,) navigation did every where greatly decay;...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"As for the other parts of the world, it is most manifest that in the ages following (whether it were in respect of wars, or by a natural revolution of time,) navigation did every where greatly decay; and specially far voyages (the rather by the use of galleys, and such vessels as could hardly brook", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_27" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"There reigned in this land, about nineteen hundred years ago, a king, whose memory of all others we most adore; not superstitiously, but as a divine instrument, though a mortal man; his name was Sola...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"There reigned in this land, about nineteen hundred years ago, a king, whose memory of all others we most adore; not superstitiously, but as a divine instrument, though a mortal man; his name was Solamona: and we esteem him as the lawgiver of our nation. This king had a large heart, inscrutable for ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_28" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"That king also, still desiring to join humanity and policy together; and thinking it against humanity, to detain strangers here against their wills, and against policy that they should return and dis...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"That king also, still desiring to join humanity and policy together; and thinking it against humanity, to detain strangers here against their wills, and against policy that they should return and discover their knowledge of this estate, he took this course: he did ordain that of the strangers that ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_29" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"Ye shall understand (my dear friends) that amongst the excellent acts of that king, one above all hath the pre-eminence. It was the erection and institution of an Order or Society, which we call Salo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"Ye shall understand (my dear friends) that amongst the excellent acts of that king, one above all hath the pre-eminence. It was the erection and institution of an Order or Society, which we call Salomon's House; the noblest foundation (as we think) that ever was upon the earth; and the lanthorn of ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_30" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"But now to come to our present purpose. When the king had forbidden to all his people navigation into any part that was not under his crown, he made nevertheless this ordinance; that every twelve yea...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"But now to come to our present purpose. When the king had forbidden to all his people navigation into any part that was not under his crown, he made nevertheless this ordinance; that every twelve years there should be set forth, out of this kingdom two ships, appointed to several voyages; That in e", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_31" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And when he had said this, he was silent; and so were we all. For indeed we were all astonished to hear so strange things so probably told. And he, perceiving that we were willing to say somewhat but ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And when he had said this, he was silent; and so were we all. For indeed we were all astonished to hear so strange things so probably told. And he, perceiving that we were willing to say somewhat but had it not ready in great courtesy took us off, and descended to ask us questions of our voyage and ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_32" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We took ourselves now for free men, seeing there was no danger of our utter perdition; and lived most joyfully, going abroad and seeing what was to be seen in the city and places adjacent within our t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We took ourselves now for free men, seeing there was no danger of our utter perdition; and lived most joyfully, going abroad and seeing what was to be seen in the city and places adjacent within our tedder; and obtaining acquaintance with many of the city, not of the meanest quality; at whose hands ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_33" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "One day there were two of our company bidden to a Feast of the Family, as they call it. A most natural, pious, and reverend custom it is, shewing that nation to be compounded of all goodness. This is ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: One day there were two of our company bidden to a Feast of the Family, as they call it. A most natural, pious, and reverend custom it is, shewing that nation to be compounded of all goodness. This is the manner of it. It is granted to any man that shall live to see thirty persons descended of his bo", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_34" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "On the feast day, the father or Tirsan cometh forth after divine service into a large room where the feast is celebrated; which room hath an half-pace at the upper end. Against the wall, in the middle...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: On the feast day, the father or Tirsan cometh forth after divine service into a large room where the feast is celebrated; which room hath an half-pace at the upper end. Against the wall, in the middle of the half-pace, is a chair placed for him, with a table and carpet before it. Over the chair is a", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_35" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The Tirsan cometh forth with all his generation or linage, the males before him, and the females following him; and if there be a mother from whose body the whole linage is descended, there is a trave...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The Tirsan cometh forth with all his generation or linage, the males before him, and the females following him; and if there be a mother from whose body the whole linage is descended, there is a traverse placed in a loft above on the right hand of the chair, with a privy door, and a carved window of", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_36" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Then the herald with three curtesies, or rather inclinations, cometh up as far as the half-pace; and there first taketh into his hand the scroll. This scroll is the king's charter, containing gifts of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Then the herald with three curtesies, or rather inclinations, cometh up as far as the half-pace; and there first taketh into his hand the scroll. This scroll is the king's charter, containing gifts of revenew, and many privileges, exemptions, and points of honour, granted to the Father of the Family", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_37" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Then the herald taketh into his hand from the other child the cluster of grapes, which is of gold, both the stalk and the grapes. But the grapes are daintily enamelled; and if the males of the family ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Then the herald taketh into his hand from the other child the cluster of grapes, which is of gold, both the stalk and the grapes. But the grapes are daintily enamelled; and if the males of the family be the greater number, the grapes are enamelled purple, with a little sun set on the top; if the fem", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_38" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "After the ceremony endeth the father or Tirsan retireth; and after some time cometh forth again to dinner, where he sitteth alone under the state, as before; and none of his descendants sit with him, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: After the ceremony endeth the father or Tirsan retireth; and after some time cometh forth again to dinner, where he sitteth alone under the state, as before; and none of his descendants sit with him, of what degree or dignity soever, except he hap to be of Salomon's House. He is served only by his o", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_39" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Dinner being done, the Tirsan retireth again; and having withdrawn himself alone into a place, where he makes some private prayers, he cometh forth the third time, to give the blessing with all his de...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Dinner being done, the Tirsan retireth again; and having withdrawn himself alone into a place, where he makes some private prayers, he cometh forth the third time, to give the blessing with all his descendants, who stand about him as at the first. Then he calleth them forth by one and by one, by nam", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_40" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "By that time six or seven days were spent, I was fallen into straight acquaintance with a merchant of that city, whose name was Joabin. He was a Jew and circumcised: for they have some few stirps of J...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: By that time six or seven days were spent, I was fallen into straight acquaintance with a merchant of that city, whose name was Joabin. He was a Jew and circumcised: for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion. Which they may the better do, b", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_41" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And for the country of Bensalem, this man would make no end of commending it; being desirous, by tradition among the Jews there, to have it believed that the people thereof were of the generations of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And for the country of Bensalem, this man would make no end of commending it; being desirous, by tradition among the Jews there, to have it believed that the people thereof were of the generations of Abraham, by another son, whom they call Nachoran; and that Moses by a secret Cabala ordained the Law", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_42" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Amongst other discourses, one day I told him I was much affected with the relation I had, from some of the company, of their custom, in holding the Feast of the Family; for that (methought) I had neve...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Amongst other discourses, one day I told him I was much affected with the relation I had, from some of the company, of their custom, in holding the Feast of the Family; for that (methought) I had never heard of a solemnity wherein nature did so much preside. And because propagation of families proce", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_43" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To this he said, \"You have reason for to commend that excellent institution of the Feast of the Family. And indeed we have experience that those families that are partakers of the blessing of that fea...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To this he said, \"You have reason for to commend that excellent institution of the Feast of the Family. And indeed we have experience that those families that are partakers of the blessing of that feast do flourish and prosper ever after in an extraordinary manner. But hear me now, and I will tell y", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_44" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And when he had said this, the good Jew paused a little; whereupon I, far more willing to hear him speak on than to speak myself, yet thinking it decent that upon his pause of speech I should not be a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And when he had said this, the good Jew paused a little; whereupon I, far more willing to hear him speak on than to speak myself, yet thinking it decent that upon his pause of speech I should not be altogether silent, said only this; \"That I would say to him, as the widow of Sarepta said to Elias; t", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_45" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"They have also many wise and excellent laws touching marriage. They allow no polygamy. They have ordained that none do intermarry or contract, until a month be past from their first interview. Marria...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"They have also many wise and excellent laws touching marriage. They allow no polygamy. They have ordained that none do intermarry or contract, until a month be past from their first interview. Marriage without consent of parents they do not make void, but they mulct it in the inheritors: for the ch", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_46" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And as we were thus in conference, there came one that seemed to be a messenger, in a rich huke, that spake with the Jew: whereupon he turned to me and said; \"You will pardon me, for I am commanded aw...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And as we were thus in conference, there came one that seemed to be a messenger, in a rich huke, that spake with the Jew: whereupon he turned to me and said; \"You will pardon me, for I am commanded away in haste.\" The next morning he came to me again, joyful as it seemed, and said; \"There is word co", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_47" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The day being come, he made his entry. He was a man of middle stature and age, comely of person, and had an aspect as if he pitied men. He was clothed in a robe of fine black cloth, with wide sleeves ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The day being come, he made his entry. He was a man of middle stature and age, comely of person, and had an aspect as if he pitied men. He was clothed in a robe of fine black cloth, with wide sleeves and a cape. His under garment was of excellent white linen down to the foot, girt with a girdle of t", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_48" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "When the shew was past, the Jew said to me; \"I shall not be able to attend you as I would, in regard of some charge the city hath laid upon me, for the entertaining of this great person.\" Three days a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: When the shew was past, the Jew said to me; \"I shall not be able to attend you as I would, in regard of some charge the city hath laid upon me, for the entertaining of this great person.\" Three days after the Jew came to me again, and said; \"Ye are happy men; for the Father of Salomon's House taketh", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_49" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We came at our day and hour, and I was chosen by my fellows for the private access. We found him in a fair chamber, richly hanged, and carpeted under foot without any degrees to the state. He was set ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We came at our day and hour, and I was chosen by my fellows for the private access. We found him in a fair chamber, richly hanged, and carpeted under foot without any degrees to the state. He was set upon a low Throne richly adorned, and a rich cloth of state over his head, of blue satin embroidered", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_50" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"God bless thee, my son; I will give thee the greatest jewel I have.\nFor I will impart unto thee, for the love of God and men, a relation of the true state of Salomon's House. Son, to make you know th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"God bless thee, my son; I will give thee the greatest jewel I have.\nFor I will impart unto thee, for the love of God and men, a relation of the true state of Salomon's House. Son, to make you know the true state of Salomon's House, I will keep this order. First, I will set forth unto you the end of", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_51" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_52" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"The Preparations and Instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths: the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom: and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountai...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"The Preparations and Instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths: the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom: and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains: so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are (some o", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_53" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have burials in several earths, where we put diverse cements, as the Chineses do their porcellain. But we have them in greater variety, and some of them more fine. We have also great variety of co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have burials in several earths, where we put diverse cements, as the Chineses do their porcellain. But we have them in greater variety, and some of them more fine. We have also great variety of composts and soils, for the making of the earth fruitful.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_54" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have high towers; the highest about half a mile in height; and some of them likewise set upon high mountains; so that the vantage of the hill with the tower is in the highest of them three miles a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have high towers; the highest about half a mile in height; and some of them likewise set upon high mountains; so that the vantage of the hill with the tower is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the Upper Region; accounting the air between the high places and t", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_55" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have great lakes, both salt, and fresh; whereof we have use for the fish and fowl. We use them also for burials of some natural bodies: for we find a difference in things buried in earth or in air...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have great lakes, both salt, and fresh; whereof we have use for the fish and fowl. We use them also for burials of some natural bodies: for we find a difference in things buried in earth or in air below the earth, and things buried in water. We have also pools, of which some do strain fresh wate", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_56" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also a number of artificial wells and fountains, made in imitation of the natural sources and baths; as tincted upon vitriol, sulphur, steel, brass, lead, nitre, and other minerals. And again...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also a number of artificial wells and fountains, made in imitation of the natural sources and baths; as tincted upon vitriol, sulphur, steel, brass, lead, nitre, and other minerals. And again we have little wells for infusions of many things, where the waters take the virtue quicker and bet", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_57" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also great and spacious houses where we imitate and demonstrate meteors; as snow, hail, rain, some artificial rains of bodies and not of water, thunders, lightnings; also generations of bodie...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also great and spacious houses where we imitate and demonstrate meteors; as snow, hail, rain, some artificial rains of bodies and not of water, thunders, lightnings; also generations of bodies in air; as frogs, flies, and divers others.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_58" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also certain chambers, which we call Chambers of Health, where we qualify the air as we think good and proper for the cure of divers diseases, and preservation of health.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also certain chambers, which we call Chambers of Health, where we qualify the air as we think good and proper for the cure of divers diseases, and preservation of health.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_59" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of man's body from arefaction: and others for the confirming of it in strength of sinewes, vital pa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of man's body from arefaction: and others for the confirming of it in strength of sinewes, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of the body.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_60" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also large and various orchards and gardens; wherein we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs: and some very spacious, where trees an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also large and various orchards and gardens; wherein we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs: and some very spacious, where trees and berries are set whereof we make divers kinds of drinks, besides the vineyards.\nIn these we practis", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_61" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also means to make divers plants rise by mixtures of earths without seeds; and likewise to make divers new plants, differing from the vulgar; and to make one tree or plant turn into another.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also means to make divers plants rise by mixtures of earths without seeds; and likewise to make divers new plants, differing from the vulgar; and to make one tree or plant turn into another.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_62" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also parks and enclosures of all sorts of beasts and birds which we use not only for view or rareness, but likewise for dissections and trials; that thereby we may take light what may be wrou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also parks and enclosures of all sorts of beasts and birds which we use not only for view or rareness, but likewise for dissections and trials; that thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. Wherein we find many strange effects; as continuing life in them, though d", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_63" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also particular pools, where we make trials upon fishes, as we have said before of beasts and birds.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also particular pools, where we make trials upon fishes, as we have said before of beasts and birds.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_64" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also places for breed and generation of those kinds of worms and flies which are of special use; such as are with you your silk-worms and bees.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also places for breed and generation of those kinds of worms and flies which are of special use; such as are with you your silk-worms and bees.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_65" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"I will not hold you long with recounting of our brewhouses, bake-houses, and kitchens, where are made divers drinks, breads, and meats, rare and of special effects. Wines we have of grapes; and drink...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"I will not hold you long with recounting of our brewhouses, bake-houses, and kitchens, where are made divers drinks, breads, and meats, rare and of special effects. Wines we have of grapes; and drinks of other juice of fruits, of grains, and of roots; and of mixtures with honey, sugar, manna, and f", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_66" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have dispensatories, or shops of medicines. Wherein you may easily think, if we have such variety of plants and living creatures more than you have in Europe, (for we know what you have,) the simp...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have dispensatories, or shops of medicines. Wherein you may easily think, if we have such variety of plants and living creatures more than you have in Europe, (for we know what you have,) the simples, drugs, and ingredients of medicines, must likewise be in so much the greater variety. We have t", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_67" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also divers mechanical arts, which you have not; and stuffs made by them; as papers, linen, silks, tissues; dainty works of feathers of wonderful lustre; excellent dies, and, many others; and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also divers mechanical arts, which you have not; and stuffs made by them; as papers, linen, silks, tissues; dainty works of feathers of wonderful lustre; excellent dies, and, many others; and shops likewise, as well for such as are not brought into vulgar use amongst us as for those that ar", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_68" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also furnaces of great diversities, and that keep great diversity of heats; fierce and quick; strong and constant; soft and mild; blown, quiet; dry, moist; and the like. But above all, we hav...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also furnaces of great diversities, and that keep great diversity of heats; fierce and quick; strong and constant; soft and mild; blown, quiet; dry, moist; and the like. But above all, we have heats, in imitation of the Sun's and heavenly bodies' heats, that pass divers inequalities, and (a", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_69" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also perspective-houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations; and of all colours: and out of things uncoloured and transparent, we can represent unto you all several col...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also perspective-houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations; and of all colours: and out of things uncoloured and transparent, we can represent unto you all several colours; not in rain-bows, (as it is in gems, and prisms,) but of themselves single.\nWe represent also ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_70" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also precious stones of all kinds, many of them of great beauty, and to you unknown; crystals likewise; and glasses of divers kinds; and amongst them some of metals vitrificated, and other ma...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also precious stones of all kinds, many of them of great beauty, and to you unknown; crystals likewise; and glasses of divers kinds; and amongst them some of metals vitrificated, and other materials besides those of which you make glass. Also a number of fossils, and imperfect minerals, whi", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_71" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, together with bells and rings tha", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_72" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also perfume-houses; wherewith we join also practices of taste. We multiply smells, which may seem strange. We imitate smells, making all smells to breathe outs of other mixtures than those t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also perfume-houses; wherewith we join also practices of taste. We multiply smells, which may seem strange. We imitate smells, making all smells to breathe outs of other mixtures than those that give them. We make divers imitations of taste likewise, so that they will deceive any man's tast", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_73" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines and instruments for all sorts of motions. There we imitate and practise to make swifter motions than any you have, either out of your muskets or...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines and instruments for all sorts of motions. There we imitate and practise to make swifter motions than any you have, either out of your muskets or any engine that you have: and to make them and multiply them more easily, and with small force, by ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_74" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also houses of deceits of the senses; where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illusions; and their fallacies. And surely you will easily believe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also houses of deceits of the senses; where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illusions; and their fallacies. And surely you will easily believe that we that have so many things truly natural which induce admiration, could in a world of particu", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_76" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"For the several employments and offices of our fellows; we have twelve that sail into foreign countries, under the names of other nations, (for our own we conceal); who bring us the books, and abstra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"For the several employments and offices of our fellows; we have twelve that sail into foreign countries, under the names of other nations, (for our own we conceal); who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call Merchants of Light.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_77" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts; and also of liberal sciences; and also of practices which are not brought into arts. These we call Mystery-men.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts; and also of liberal sciences; and also of practices which are not brought into arts. These we call Mystery-men.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_78" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have three that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables, to give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have three that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables, to give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_80" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practise for man's life, and knowledge, as well for works a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practise for man's life, and knowledge, as well for works as for plain demonstration of causes, means of natural divinations, and the easy and clear discovery ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_81" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former. These we call Lamps.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_82" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"Lastly, we have three that raise the former discoveries by experiments into greater observations, axioms, and aphorisms. These we call Interpreters of Nature.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"Lastly, we have three that raise the former discoveries by experiments into greater observations, axioms, and aphorisms. These we call Interpreters of Nature.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_84" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have also, as you must think, novices and apprentices, that the succession of the former employed men do not fail; besides, a great number of servants and attendants, men and women. And this we do...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have also, as you must think, novices and apprentices, that the succession of the former employed men do not fail; besides, a great number of servants and attendants, men and women. And this we do also: we have consultations, which of the inventions and experiences which we have discovered shall", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_85" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"For our ordinances and rites: we have two very long and fair galleries: in one of these we place patterns and samples of all manner of the more rare and excellent inventions in the other we place the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"For our ordinances and rites: we have two very long and fair galleries: in one of these we place patterns and samples of all manner of the more rare and excellent inventions in the other we place the statues of all principal inventors. There we have the statue of your Columbus, that discovered the ", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_86" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"We have certain hymns and services, which we say daily, of Lord and thanks to God for his marvellous works: and forms of prayers, imploring his aid and blessing for the illumination of our labours, a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"We have certain hymns and services, which we say daily, of Lord and thanks to God for his marvellous works: and forms of prayers, imploring his aid and blessing for the illumination of our labours, and the turning of them into good and holy uses.", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_87" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "\"Lastly, we have circuits or visits of divers principal cities of the kingdom; where, as it cometh to pass, we do publish such new profitable inventions as we think good. And we do also declare natura...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: \"Lastly, we have circuits or visits of divers principal cities of the kingdom; where, as it cometh to pass, we do publish such new profitable inventions as we think good. And we do also declare natural divinations of diseases, plagues, swarms-of hurtful creatures, scarcity, tempests, earthquakes, gr", "source": "The new Atlantis", "segment_id": "The new Atlantis_para_88" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And when he had said this, he stood up; and I, as I had been taught, kneeled down, and he laid his right hand upon my head, and said; \"God bless thee, my son; and God bless this relation, which I have...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And when he had said this, he stood up; and I, as I had been taught, kneeled down, and he laid his right hand upon my head, and said; \"God bless thee, my son; and God bless this relation, which I have made. 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And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain disc", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_0" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it fireth the imagination; and yet, it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it fireth the imagination; and yet, it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. Bu", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_1" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To pass from theological, and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear, and round dealing, is the honor of man's nat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To pass from theological, and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear, and round dealing, is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehoods, is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the me", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_2" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and pass...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is we", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_3" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The quarrels, and divisions about religion, were evils unknown to the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The quarrels, and divisions about religion, were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted rather in rites and ceremoni", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_4" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The fruits of unity (next unto the well pleasing of God, which is all in all) are two: the one, towards those that are without the church, the other, towards those that are within. For the former; it ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The fruits of unity (next unto the well pleasing of God, which is all in all) are two: the one, towards those that are without the church, the other, towards those that are within. For the former; it is certain, that heresies, and schisms, are of all others the greatest scandals; yea, more than corr", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_5" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As for the fruit towards those that are within; it is peace; which containeth infinite blessings. It establisheth faith; it kindleth charity; the outward peace of the church, distilleth into peace of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As for the fruit towards those that are within; it is peace; which containeth infinite blessings. It establisheth faith; it kindleth charity; the outward peace of the church, distilleth into peace of conscience; and it turneth the labors of writing, and reading of controversies, into treaties of mor", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_6" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Concerning the bounds of unity; the true placing of them, importeth exceedingly. There appear to be two extremes. For to certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious. Is it peace, Jehu,? Wha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Concerning the bounds of unity; the true placing of them, importeth exceedingly. There appear to be two extremes. For to certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious. Is it peace, Jehu,? What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. Peace is not the matter, but following, and party", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_7" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of this I may give only this advice, according to my small model.\nMen ought to take heed, of rending God's church, by two kinds of controversies. The one is, when the matter of the point controverted,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of this I may give only this advice, according to my small model.\nMen ought to take heed, of rending God's church, by two kinds of controversies. The one is, when the matter of the point controverted, is too small and light, not worth the heat and strife about it, kindled only by contradiction. For,", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_8" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Concerning the means of procuring unity; men must beware, that in the procuring, or reuniting, of religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity, and of human society. There be t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Concerning the means of procuring unity; men must beware, that in the procuring, or reuniting, of religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity, and of human society. There be two swords amongst Christians, the spiritual and temporal; and both have their due office and place, ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_9" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "What would he have said, if he had known of the massacre in France, or the powder treason of England? He would have been seven times more Epicure, and atheist, than he was. For as the temporal sword i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: What would he have said, if he had known of the massacre in France, or the powder treason of England? He would have been seven times more Epicure, and atheist, than he was. For as the temporal sword is to be drawn with great circumspection in cases of religion; so it is a thing monstrous to put it i", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_10" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, puttet...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in pass", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_11" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT WAS an high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT WAS an high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nat", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_12" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_13" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and dissimulation of her son; attributing arts or policy to Augustus, and dissimulation to Tiberius. And again, when Mucianus encourageth...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and dissimulation of her son; attributing arts or policy to Augustus, and dissimulation to Tiberius. And again, when Mucianus encourageth Vespasian, to take arms against Vitellius, he saith, We rise not against the piercing judgment of A", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_14" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man's self. The first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man's self. The first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he is. The second, dissimulation, in the negative; when a man lets fall signs and arguments, that he is", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_15" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the first of these, secrecy; it is indeed the virtue of a confessor.\nAnd assuredly, the secret man heareth many confessions. For who will open himself, to a blab or a babbler? But if a man be thou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the first of these, secrecy; it is indeed the virtue of a confessor.\nAnd assuredly, the secret man heareth many confessions. For who will open himself, to a blab or a babbler? But if a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open; and as in confess", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_16" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the second, which is dissimulation; it followeth many times upon secrecy, by a necessity; so that he that will be secret, must be a dissembler in some degree. For men are too cunning, to suffer a ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the second, which is dissimulation; it followeth many times upon secrecy, by a necessity; so that he that will be secret, must be a dissembler in some degree. For men are too cunning, to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both, and to be secret, without swaying the balance on e", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_17" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters. And therefore a general custom of simulation (...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters. And therefore a general custom of simulation (which is this last degree) is a vice, using either of a natural falseness or fearfulness, or of a mi", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_18" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First, to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum, to call up all that are a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First, to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum, to call up all that are against them.\nThe second is, to reserve to a man's self a fair retreat. For if a man engage himself b", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_19" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.\nThey cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.\nThey cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation i", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_20" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The difference in affection, of parents towards their several children, is many times unequal; and sometimes unworthy; especially in the mothers; as Solomon saith, A wise son rejoiceth the father, but...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The difference in affection, of parents towards their several children, is many times unequal; and sometimes unworthy; especially in the mothers; as Solomon saith, A wise son rejoiceth the father, but an ungracious son shames the mother. A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_21" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.\nCertainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the publ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.\nCertainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have marr", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_22" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THERE be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THERE be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the present of the objects; which are the points that", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_23" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But leaving these curiosities (though not unworthy to be thought on, in fit place), we will handle, what persons are apt to envy others; what persons are most subject to be envied themselves; and what...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But leaving these curiosities (though not unworthy to be thought on, in fit place), we will handle, what persons are apt to envy others; what persons are most subject to be envied themselves; and what is the difference between public and private envy.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_24" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_25" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A man that is busy, and inquisitive, is commonly envious. For to know much of other men's matters, cannot be because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be, that he taketh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A man that is busy, and inquisitive, is commonly envious. For to know much of other men's matters, cannot be because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be, that he taketh a kind of play-pleasure, in looking upon the fortunes of others. Neither can he, that mindeth but h", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_26" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Men of noble birth, are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves, go back.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Men of noble birth, are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves, go back.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_27" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious.\nFor he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another's; except these defects light upon a very b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious.\nFor he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another's; except these defects light upon a very brave, and heroical nature, which thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that it sh", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_28" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The same is the case of men, that rise after calamities and misfortunes.\nFor they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men's harms, a redemption of their own sufferings.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The same is the case of men, that rise after calamities and misfortunes.\nFor they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men's harms, a redemption of their own sufferings.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_29" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They that desire to excel in too many matters, out of levity and vain glory, are ever envious. For they cannot want work; it being impossible, but many, in some one of those things, should surpass the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They that desire to excel in too many matters, out of levity and vain glory, are ever envious. For they cannot want work; it being impossible, but many, in some one of those things, should surpass them. Which was the character of Adrian the Emperor; that mortally envied poets, and painters, and arti", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_30" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, near kinsfolks, and fellows in office, and those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals, when they are raised.\nFor it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and po...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, near kinsfolks, and fellows in office, and those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals, when they are raised.\nFor it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them, and cometh oftener into their remembrance, and incurreth likewise more into the note", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_31" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy: First, persons of eminent virtue, when they are advanced, are less envied. For their fortune seemeth, but due unto them; and no man envieth the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy: First, persons of eminent virtue, when they are advanced, are less envied. For their fortune seemeth, but due unto them; and no man envieth the payment of a debt, but rewards and liberality rather. Again, envy is ever joined with the comparing ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_32" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Persons of noble blood, are less envied in their rising. For it seemeth but right done to their birth. Besides, there seemeth not much added to their fortune; and envy is as the sunbeams, that beat ho...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Persons of noble blood, are less envied in their rising. For it seemeth but right done to their birth. Besides, there seemeth not much added to their fortune; and envy is as the sunbeams, that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. And for the same reason, those that are ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_33" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy. For men think that they earn their honors hardly, and pity them sometimes; and pity ever healeth envy...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy. For men think that they earn their honors hardly, and pity them sometimes; and pity ever healeth envy. Wherefore you shall observe, that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons, in their greatn", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_34" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Above all, those are most subject to envy, which carry the greatness of their fortunes, in an insolent and proud manner; being never well, but while they are showing how great they are, either by outw...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Above all, those are most subject to envy, which carry the greatness of their fortunes, in an insolent and proud manner; being never well, but while they are showing how great they are, either by outward pomp, or by triumphing over all opposition or competition; whereas wise men will rather do sacri", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_35" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, to conclude this part; as we said in the beginning, that the act of envy had somewhat in it of witchcraft, so there is no other cure of envy, but the cure of witchcraft; and that is, to remove...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, to conclude this part; as we said in the beginning, that the act of envy had somewhat in it of witchcraft, so there is no other cure of envy, but the cure of witchcraft; and that is, to remove the lot (as they call it) and to lay it upon another. For which purpose, the wiser sort of great pe", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_36" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Now, to speak of public envy. There is yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there is none. For public envy, is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men, when they grow too great. And therefore...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Now, to speak of public envy. There is yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there is none. For public envy, is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men, when they grow too great. And therefore it is a bridle also to great ones, to keep them within bounds.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_37" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This envy, being in the Latin word invidia, goeth in the modern language, by the name of discontentment; of which we shall speak, in handling sedition. It is a disease, in a state, like to infection. ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This envy, being in the Latin word invidia, goeth in the modern language, by the name of discontentment; of which we shall speak, in handling sedition. It is a disease, in a state, like to infection. For as infection spreadeth upon that which is sound, and tainteth it; so when envy is gotten once in", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_38" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves. But this is a sure rule, that if the envy upon the minister be great, wh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves. But this is a sure rule, that if the envy upon the minister be great, when the cause of it in him is small; or if the envy be general, in a manner upon all the ministers of", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_39" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We will add this in general, touching the affection of envy; that of all other affections, it is the most importune and continual. For of other affections, there is occasion given, but now and then; a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We will add this in general, touching the affection of envy; that of all other affections, it is the most importune and continual. For of other affections, there is occasion given, but now and then; and therefore it was well said, Invidia festos dies non agit: for it is ever working upon some or oth", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_40" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a sire...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_41" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "MEN in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom; neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: MEN in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom; neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over oth", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_42" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT IS a trivial grammar-school text, but yet worthy a wise man's consideration. Question was asked of Demosthenes, what was the chief part of an orator? he answered, action; what next? action; what ne...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT IS a trivial grammar-school text, but yet worthy a wise man's consideration. Question was asked of Demosthenes, what was the chief part of an orator? he answered, action; what next? action; what next again? action. He said it, that knew it best, and had, by nature, himself no advantage in that he", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_43" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it. Goodness I ca...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. This of all virtues, and dignities of the min", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_44" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "WE WILL speak of nobility, first as a portion of an estate, then as a condition of particular persons. A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: WE WILL speak of nobility, first as a portion of an estate, then as a condition of particular persons. A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks.\nFor nobility attempers sovereignty, and draws the eyes of the people, somewhat aside from t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_45" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As for nobility in particular persons; it is a reverend thing, to see an ancient castle or building, not in decay; or to see a fair timber tree, sound and perfect. How much more, to behold an ancient ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As for nobility in particular persons; it is a reverend thing, to see an ancient castle or building, not in decay; or to see a fair timber tree, sound and perfect. How much more, to behold an ancient noble family, which has stood against the waves and weathers of time! For new nobility is but the ac", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_46" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "SHEPHERDS of people, had need know the calendars of tempests in state; which are commonly greatest, when things grow to equality; as natural tempests are greatest about the Equinoctia. And as there ar...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: SHEPHERDS of people, had need know the calendars of tempests in state; which are commonly greatest, when things grow to equality; as natural tempests are greatest about the Equinoctia. And as there are certain hollow blasts of wind, and secret swellings of seas before a tempest, so are there in stat", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_47" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Libels and licentious discourses against the state, when they are frequent and open; and in like sort, false news often running up and down, to the disadvantage of the state, and hastily embraced; are...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Libels and licentious discourses against the state, when they are frequent and open; and in like sort, false news often running up and down, to the disadvantage of the state, and hastily embraced; are amongst the signs of troubles. Virgil, giving the pedigree of Fame, saith, she was sister to the Gi", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_48" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As if fames were the relics of seditions past; but they are no less, indeed, the preludes of seditions to come. Howsoever he noteth it right, that seditious tumults, and seditious fames, differ no mor...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As if fames were the relics of seditions past; but they are no less, indeed, the preludes of seditions to come. Howsoever he noteth it right, that seditious tumults, and seditious fames, differ no more but as brother and sister, masculine and feminine; especially if it come to that, that the best ac", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_50" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Also, as Machiavel noteth well, when princes, that ought to be common parents, make themselves as a party, and lean to a side, it is as a boat, that is overthrown by uneven weight on the one side; as ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Also, as Machiavel noteth well, when princes, that ought to be common parents, make themselves as a party, and lean to a side, it is as a boat, that is overthrown by uneven weight on the one side; as was well seen, in the time of Henry the Third of France; for first, himself entered league for the e", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_51" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Also, when discords, and quarrels, and factions are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost. For the motions of the greatest persons in a government, ought to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Also, when discords, and quarrels, and factions are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost. For the motions of the greatest persons in a government, ought to be as the motions of the planets under primum mobile; according to the old opinion: which is, that e", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_52" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather. But let us pass from this par...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather. But let us pass from this part of predictions (concerning which, nevertheless, more light may be taken from that which followeth)", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_53" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell, whence the spark shall come, that shall set it on fire. The matter of s", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_54" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This same multis utile bellum, is an assured and infallible sign, of a state disposed to seditions and troubles. And if this poverty and broken estate in the better sort, be joined with a want and nec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This same multis utile bellum, is an assured and infallible sign, of a state disposed to seditions and troubles. And if this poverty and broken estate in the better sort, be joined with a want and necessity in the mean people, the danger is imminent and great. For the rebellions of the belly are the", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_55" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths;...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and what soever, in offending people, joineth and kni", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_56" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the remedies; there may be some general preservatives, whereof we will speak: as for the just cure, it must answer to the particular disease; and so be left to counsel, rather than rule.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the remedies; there may be some general preservatives, whereof we will speak: as for the just cure, it must answer to the particular disease; and so be left to counsel, rather than rule.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_57" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate. To which purpose serveth the opening, an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate. To which purpose serveth the opening, and well-balancing of trade; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of idleness; the repressing", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_58" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is likewise to be remembered, that forasmuch as the increase of any estate must be upon the foreigner (for whatsoever is somewhere gotten, is somewhere lost), there be but three things, which one n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is likewise to be remembered, that forasmuch as the increase of any estate must be upon the foreigner (for whatsoever is somewhere gotten, is somewhere lost), there be but three things, which one nation selleth unto another; the commodity as nature yieldeth it; the manufacture; and the vecture, o", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_59" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve. And money is like m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve. And money is like muck, not good except it be spread. This is done, chiefly by suppressing, or at least keeping a strai", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_60" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For removing discontentments, or at least the danger of them; there is in every state (as we know) two portions of subjects; the noblesse and the commonalty. When one of these is discontent, the dange...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For removing discontentments, or at least the danger of them; there is in every state (as we know) two portions of subjects; the noblesse and the commonalty. When one of these is discontent, the danger is not great; for common people are of slow motion, if they be not excited by the greater sort; an", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_61" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The part of Epimetheus mought well become Prometheus, in the case of discontentments: for there is not a better provision against them.\nEpimetheus, when griefs and evils flew abroad, at last shut the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The part of Epimetheus mought well become Prometheus, in the case of discontentments: for there is not a better provision against them.\nEpimetheus, when griefs and evils flew abroad, at last shut the lid, and kept hope in the bottom of the vessel. Certainly, the politic and artificial nourishing, an", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_62" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Also the foresight and prevention, that there be no likely or fit head, whereunto discontented persons may resort, and under whom they may join, is a known, but an excellent point of caution. I unders...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Also the foresight and prevention, that there be no likely or fit head, whereunto discontented persons may resort, and under whom they may join, is a known, but an excellent point of caution. I understand a fit head, to be one that hath greatness and reputation; that hath confidence with the discont", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_63" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I have noted, that some witty and sharp speeches, which have fallen from princes, have given fire to seditions. Caesar did himself infinite hurt in that speech, Sylla nescivit literas, non potuit dict...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I have noted, that some witty and sharp speeches, which have fallen from princes, have given fire to seditions. Caesar did himself infinite hurt in that speech, Sylla nescivit literas, non potuit dictare; for it did utterly cut off that hope, which men had entertained, that he would at one time or o", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_64" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, let princes, against all events, not be without some great person, one or rather more, of military valor, near unto them, for the repressing of seditions in their beginnings. For without that,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, let princes, against all events, not be without some great person, one or rather more, of military valor, near unto them, for the repressing of seditions in their beginnings. For without that, there useth to be more trepidation in court upon the first breaking out of troubles, than were fit.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_65" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore, God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, bec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore, God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to at", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_66" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT WERE better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT WERE better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) I had rather a great deal, men should say, th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_67" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.\nThat young men travel under some tutor, or grave servant, I allow well; so that he be such a", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_68" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT IS a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire, and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings; who, being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT IS a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire, and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings; who, being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing; and have many representations of perils and shadows, which makes their minds", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_69" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To speak now of the true temper of empire, it is a thing rare and hard to keep; for both temper, and distemper, consist of contraries. But it is one thing, to mingle contraries, another to interchange...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To speak now of the true temper of empire, it is a thing rare and hard to keep; for both temper, and distemper, consist of contraries. But it is one thing, to mingle contraries, another to interchange them. The answer of Apollonius to Vespasian, is full of excellent instruction.\nVespasian asked him,", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_70" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This is true, that the wisdom of all these latter times, in princes' affairs, is rather fine deliveries, and shiftings of dangers and mischiefs, when they are near, than solid and grounded courses to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This is true, that the wisdom of all these latter times, in princes' affairs, is rather fine deliveries, and shiftings of dangers and mischiefs, when they are near, than solid and grounded courses to keep them aloof. But this is but to try masteries with fortune. And let men beware, how they neglect", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_71" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Kings have to deal with their neighbors, their wives, their children, their prelates or clergy, their nobles, their second-nobles or gentlemen, their merchants, their commons, and their men of war; an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Kings have to deal with their neighbors, their wives, their children, their prelates or clergy, their nobles, their second-nobles or gentlemen, their merchants, their commons, and their men of war; and from all these arise dangers, if care and circumspection be not used.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_72" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "First for their neighbors; there can no general rule be given (for occasions are so variable), save one, which ever holdeth, which is, that princes do keep due sentinel, that none of their neighbors d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: First for their neighbors; there can no general rule be given (for occasions are so variable), save one, which ever holdeth, which is, that princes do keep due sentinel, that none of their neighbors do ever grow so (by increase of territory, by embracing of trade, by approaches, or the like), as the", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_73" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their wives; there are cruel examples of them. Livia is infamed, for the poisoning of her husband; Roxalana, Solyman's wife, was the destruction of that renowned prince, Sultan Mustapha, and other...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their wives; there are cruel examples of them. Livia is infamed, for the poisoning of her husband; Roxalana, Solyman's wife, was the destruction of that renowned prince, Sultan Mustapha, and otherwise troubled his house and succession; Edward the Second of England, his queen, had the principal h", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_74" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their children; the tragedies likewise of dangers from them, have been many. And generally, the entering of fathers into suspicion of their children, hath been ever unfortunate. The destruction of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their children; the tragedies likewise of dangers from them, have been many. And generally, the entering of fathers into suspicion of their children, hath been ever unfortunate. The destruction of Mustapha (that we named before) was so fatal to Solyman's line, as the succession of the Turks, fro", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_75" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their prelates; when they are proud and great, there is also danger from them; as it was in the times of Anselmus, and Thomas Becket, Archbishops of Canterbury; who, with their croziers, did almos...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their prelates; when they are proud and great, there is also danger from them; as it was in the times of Anselmus, and Thomas Becket, Archbishops of Canterbury; who, with their croziers, did almost try it with the king's sword; and yet they had to deal with stout and haughty kings, William Rufus", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_76" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their nobles; to keep them at a distance, it is not amiss; but to depress them, may make a king more absolute, but less safe; and less able to perform, any thing that he desires. I have noted it, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their nobles; to keep them at a distance, it is not amiss; but to depress them, may make a king more absolute, but less safe; and less able to perform, any thing that he desires. I have noted it, in my History of King Henry the Seventh of England, who depressed his nobility; whereupon it came to", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_77" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their second-nobles; there is not much danger from them, being a body dispersed. They may sometimes discourse high, but that doth little hurt; besides, they are a counterpoise to the higher nobili...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their second-nobles; there is not much danger from them, being a body dispersed. They may sometimes discourse high, but that doth little hurt; besides, they are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent; and, lastly, being the most immediate in authority, with the comm", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_78" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their merchants; they are vena porta; and if they flourish not, a kingdom may have good limbs, but will have empty veins, and nourish little. Taxes and imposts upon them, do seldom good to the kin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their merchants; they are vena porta; and if they flourish not, a kingdom may have good limbs, but will have empty veins, and nourish little. Taxes and imposts upon them, do seldom good to the king's revenue; for that that he wins in the hundred, he leeseth in the shire; the particular rates bei", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_79" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their commons; there is little danger from them, except it be, where they have great and potent heads; or where you meddle with the point of religion, or their customs, or means of life.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their commons; there is little danger from them, except it be, where they have great and potent heads; or where you meddle with the point of religion, or their customs, or means of life.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_80" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_81" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest. All precepts concerning kings, are in effect comprehended in those two remembrances: m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest. All precepts concerning kings, are in effect comprehended in those two remembrances: memento quod es homo; and memento quod es Deus, or vice Dei; the one bridleth their power, and the ot", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_82" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel.\nFor in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some particular...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel.\nFor in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some particular affair; but to such as they make their counsellors, they commit the whole: by how much the more, th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_83" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancient times, do set forth in figure, both the incorporation, and inseparable conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the wise and politic use of counsel by kings: the one, in that they say Jupit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancient times, do set forth in figure, both the incorporation, and inseparable conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the wise and politic use of counsel by kings: the one, in that they say Jupiter did marry Metis, which signifieth counsel; whereby they intend that Sovereignty, is married to Co", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_84" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let us now speak of the inconveniences of counsel, and of the remedies.\nThe inconveniences that have been noted, in calling and using counsel, are three. First, the revealing of affairs, whereby they ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let us now speak of the inconveniences of counsel, and of the remedies.\nThe inconveniences that have been noted, in calling and using counsel, are three. First, the revealing of affairs, whereby they become less secret. Secondly, the weakening of the authority of princes, as if they were less of the", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_85" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As to secrecy; princes are not bound to communicate all matters, with all counsellors; but may extract and select. Neither is it necessary, that he that consulteth what he should do, should declare wh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As to secrecy; princes are not bound to communicate all matters, with all counsellors; but may extract and select. Neither is it necessary, that he that consulteth what he should do, should declare what he will do. But let princes beware, that the unsecreting of their affairs, comes not from themsel", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_86" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For weakening of authority; the fable showeth the remedy. Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For weakening of authority; the fable showeth the remedy. Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over-greatness in one cou", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_87" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the last inconvenience, that men will counsel, with an eye to themselves; certainly, non inveniet fidem super terram is meant, of the nature of times, and not of all particular persons. There be, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the last inconvenience, that men will counsel, with an eye to themselves; certainly, non inveniet fidem super terram is meant, of the nature of times, and not of all particular persons. There be, that are in nature faithful, and sincere, and plain, and direct; not crafty and involved; let prince", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_88" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And on the other side, counsellors should not be too speculative into their sovereign's person. The true composition of a counsellor, is rather to be skilful in their master's business, than in his na...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And on the other side, counsellors should not be too speculative into their sovereign's person. The true composition of a counsellor, is rather to be skilful in their master's business, than in his nature; for then he is like to advise him, and not feed his humor. It is of singular use to princes, i", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_89" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The counsels at this day, in most places, are but familiar meetings, where matters are rather talked on, than debated. And they run too swift, to the order, or act, of counsel. It were better that in ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The counsels at this day, in most places, are but familiar meetings, where matters are rather talked on, than debated. And they run too swift, to the order, or act, of counsel. It were better that in causes of weight, the matter were propounded one day, and not spoken to till the next day; in nocte ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_90" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "FORTUNE is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Again, it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer; which at first, offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: FORTUNE is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Again, it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer; which at first, offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price. For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_91" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "WE TAKE cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. And certainly there is a great difference, between a cunning man, and a wise man; not only in point of honesty, but in point of ability. There be, tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: WE TAKE cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. And certainly there is a great difference, between a cunning man, and a wise man; not only in point of honesty, but in point of ability. There be, that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well; so there are some that are good in canvasses and fac", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_92" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is a point of cunning, to wait upon him with whom you speak, with your eye; as the Jesuits give it in precept: for there be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances. Yet...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is a point of cunning, to wait upon him with whom you speak, with your eye; as the Jesuits give it in precept: for there be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances. Yet this would be done with a demure abasing of your eye, sometimes, as the Jesuits also do use.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_93" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Another is, that when you have anything to obtain, of present despatch, you entertain and amuse the party, with whom you deal, with some other discourse; that he be not too much awake to make objectio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Another is, that when you have anything to obtain, of present despatch, you entertain and amuse the party, with whom you deal, with some other discourse; that he be not too much awake to make objections. I knew a counsellor and secretary, that never came to Queen Elizabeth of England, with bills to ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_94" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The like surprise may be made by moving things, when the party is in haste, and cannot stay to consider advisedly of that is moved.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The like surprise may be made by moving things, when the party is in haste, and cannot stay to consider advisedly of that is moved.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_95" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "If a man would cross a business, that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually move, let him pretend to wish it well, and move it himself in such sort as may foil it.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: If a man would cross a business, that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually move, let him pretend to wish it well, and move it himself in such sort as may foil it.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_96" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The breaking off, in the midst of that one was about to say, as if he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you confer, to know more.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The breaking off, in the midst of that one was about to say, as if he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you confer, to know more.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_97" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And because it works better, when anything seemeth to be gotten from you by question, than if you offer it of yourself, you may lay a bait for a question, by showing another visage, and countenance, t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And because it works better, when anything seemeth to be gotten from you by question, than if you offer it of yourself, you may lay a bait for a question, by showing another visage, and countenance, than you are wont; to the end to give occasion, for the party to ask, what the matter is of the chang", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_98" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in as by chance, so that he may be asked t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in as by chance, so that he may be asked the question upon the other's speech: as Narcissus did, relating to Claudius the marriage of Messalin", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_99" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning, to borrow the name of the world; as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning, to borrow the name of the world; as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_100" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I knew one that, when he wrote a letter, he would put that, which was most material, in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I knew one that, when he wrote a letter, he would put that, which was most material, in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_101" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I knew another that, when he came to have speech, he would pass over that, that he intended most; and go forth, and come back again, and speak of it as of a thing, that he had almost forgot.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I knew another that, when he came to have speech, he would pass over that, that he intended most; and go forth, and come back again, and speak of it as of a thing, that he had almost forgot.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_102" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Some procure themselves, to be surprised, at such times as it is like the party that they work upon, will suddenly come upon them; and to be found with a letter in their hand, or doing somewhat which ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Some procure themselves, to be surprised, at such times as it is like the party that they work upon, will suddenly come upon them; and to be found with a letter in their hand, or doing somewhat which they are not accustomed; to the end, they may be apposed of those things, which of themselves they a", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_103" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is a point of cunning, to let fall those words in a man's own name, which he would have another man learn, and use, and thereupon take advantage. I knew two, that were competitors for the secretary...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is a point of cunning, to let fall those words in a man's own name, which he would have another man learn, and use, and thereupon take advantage. I knew two, that were competitors for the secretary's place in Queen Elizabeth's time, and yet kept good quarter between themselves; and would confer, ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_104" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is a cunning, which we in England call, the turning of the cat in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. And to say truth, it is n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is a cunning, which we in England call, the turning of the cat in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. And to say truth, it is not easy, when such a matter passed between two, to make it appear from which of them it first moved ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_105" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is a way that some men have, to glance and dart at others, by justifying themselves by negatives; as to say, This I do not; as Tigellinus did towards Burrhus, Se non diversas spes, sed incolumitate...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is a way that some men have, to glance and dart at others, by justifying themselves by negatives; as to say, This I do not; as Tigellinus did towards Burrhus, Se non diversas spes, sed incolumitatem imperatoris simpliciter spectare.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_106" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Some have in readiness so many tales and stories, as there is nothing they would insinuate, but they can wrap it into a tale; which serveth both to keep themselves more in guard, and to make others ca...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Some have in readiness so many tales and stories, as there is nothing they would insinuate, but they can wrap it into a tale; which serveth both to keep themselves more in guard, and to make others carry it with more pleasure. It is a good point of cunning, for a man to shape the answer he would hav", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_107" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is strange how long some men will lie in wait to speak somewhat they desire to say; and how far about they will fetch; and how many other matters they will beat over, to come near it. It is a thing...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is strange how long some men will lie in wait to speak somewhat they desire to say; and how far about they will fetch; and how many other matters they will beat over, to come near it. It is a thing of great patience, but yet of much use.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_108" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man, and lay him open. Like to him that, having changed his name, and walking in Paul's, another suddenly came behind him, and called...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man, and lay him open. Like to him that, having changed his name, and walking in Paul's, another suddenly came behind him, and called him by his true name, whereat straightways he looked back.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_109" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But these small wares, and petty points, of cunning, are infinite; and it were a good deed to make a list of them; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But these small wares, and petty points, of cunning, are infinite; and it were a good deed to make a list of them; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_110" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But certainly some there are that know the resorts and falls of business, that cannot sink into the main of it; like a house that hath convenient stairs and entries, but never a fair room. Therefore, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But certainly some there are that know the resorts and falls of business, that cannot sink into the main of it; like a house that hath convenient stairs and entries, but never a fair room. Therefore, you shall see them find out pretty looses in the conclusion, but are no ways able to examine or deba", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_111" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "AN ANT is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden. And certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public. Divide with reason; between self-love...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: AN ANT is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden. And certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public. Divide with reason; between self-love and society; and be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others; specially to thy king and c", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_112" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing.\nIt is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house, somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing.\nIt is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house, somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears w", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_113" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "AS THE births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Yet notwithstanding, as those that first bring honor into their family, are commonly m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: AS THE births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Yet notwithstanding, as those that first bring honor into their family, are commonly more worthy than most that succeed, so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by imit", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_114" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "AFFECTED dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: AFFECTED dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases. Therefore measure not dispatch, by the times of sitting, but by ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_115" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "On the other side, true dispatch is a rich thing. For time is the measure of business, as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand, where there is small dispatch. The Spartans and Span...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: On the other side, true dispatch is a rich thing. For time is the measure of business, as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand, where there is small dispatch. The Spartans and Spaniards have been noted to be of small dispatch; Mi venga la muerte de Spagna; Let my death come from ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_116" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Give good hearing to those, that give the first information in business; and rather direct them in the beginning, than interrupt them in the continuance of their speeches; for he that is put out of hi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Give good hearing to those, that give the first information in business; and rather direct them in the beginning, than interrupt them in the continuance of their speeches; for he that is put out of his own order, will go forward and backward, and be more tedious, while he waits upon his memory, than", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_117" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Iterations are commonly loss of time. But there is no such gain of time, as to iterate often the state of the question; for it chaseth away many a frivolous speech, as it is coming forth. Long and cur...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Iterations are commonly loss of time. But there is no such gain of time, as to iterate often the state of the question; for it chaseth away many a frivolous speech, as it is coming forth. Long and curious speeches, are as fit for dispatch, as a robe or mantle, with a long train, is for race. Preface", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_118" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Above all things, order, and distribution, and singling out of parts, is the life of dispatch; so as the distribution be not too subtle: for he that doth not divide, will never enter well into busines...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Above all things, order, and distribution, and singling out of parts, is the life of dispatch; so as the distribution be not too subtle: for he that doth not divide, will never enter well into business; and he that divideth too much, will never come out of it clearly. To choose time, is to save time", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_119" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT HATH been an opinion, that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. But howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man. For as the A...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT HATH been an opinion, that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. But howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man. For as the Apostle saith of godliness, Having a show of godliness, but denying the power thereof; so certainly t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_120" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. For it is mo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred, and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_121" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_122" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is a strange thing to observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship, whereof we speak: so great, as they purchase it, many times, at the hazard of their own...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is a strange thing to observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship, whereof we speak: so great, as they purchase it, many times, at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their su", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_123" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "L. Sylla, when he commanded Rome, raised Pompey (after surnamed the Great) to that height, that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla's overmatch. For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: L. Sylla, when he commanded Rome, raised Pompey (after surnamed the Great) to that height, that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla's overmatch. For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_124" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is not to be forgotten, what Comineus observeth of his first master, Duke Charles the Hardy, namely, that he would communicate his secrets with none; and least of all, those secrets which troubled ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is not to be forgotten, what Comineus observeth of his first master, Duke Charles the Hardy, namely, that he would communicate his secrets with none; and least of all, those secrets which troubled him most.\nWhereupon he goeth on, and saith that towards his latter time, that closeness did impair, ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_125" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The second fruit of friendship, is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections. For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The second fruit of friendship, is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections. For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness, and confusion of thoughts. Neither i", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_126" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Add now, to make this second fruit of friendship complete, that other point, which lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation; which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith wel...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Add now, to make this second fruit of friendship complete, that other point, which lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation; which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, Dry light is ever the best. And certain it is, that the light that a man re", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_127" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections, and support of the judgment), followeth the last fruit; which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels; I mean aid, and bearin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections, and support of the judgment), followeth the last fruit; which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels; I mean aid, and bearing a part, in all actions and occasions. Here the best way to represent to life the manifold use of f", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_128" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "RICHES are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions.\nTherefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's countr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: RICHES are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions.\nTherefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's country, as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a man's estate; and go", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_129" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE speech of Themistocles the Athenian, which was haughty and arrogant, in taking so much to himself, had been a grave and wise observation and censure, applied at large to others. Desired at a feast...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE speech of Themistocles the Athenian, which was haughty and arrogant, in taking so much to himself, had been a grave and wise observation and censure, applied at large to others. Desired at a feast to touch a lute, he said, He could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town, a great city. Th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_130" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number and greatness of cities and towns by cards and maps. But yet there is not any thing amongst civil a", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_131" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people, be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_132" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The blessing of Judah and Issachar will never meet; that the same people, or nation, should be both the lion's whelp and the ass between burthens; neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The blessing of Judah and Issachar will never meet; that the same people, or nation, should be both the lion's whelp and the ass between burthens; neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes, should ever become valiant and martial. It is true that taxes levied by consent of the estate, do ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_133" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let states that aim at greatness, take heed how their nobility and gentlemen do multiply too fast. For that maketh the common subject, grow to be a peasant and base swain, driven out of heart, and in ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let states that aim at greatness, take heed how their nobility and gentlemen do multiply too fast. For that maketh the common subject, grow to be a peasant and base swain, driven out of heart, and in effect but the gentleman's laborer. Even as you may see in coppice woods; if you leave your staddles", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_134" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Neither is that state (which, for any thing I know, is almost peculiar to England, and hardly to be found anywhere else, except it be perhaps in Poland) to be passed over; I mean the state of free ser...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Neither is that state (which, for any thing I know, is almost peculiar to England, and hardly to be found anywhere else, except it be perhaps in Poland) to be passed over; I mean the state of free servants, and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen; which are no ways inferior unto the yeomanry for ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_135" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "By all means it is to be procured, that the trunk of Nebuchadnezzar's tree of monarchy, be great enough to bear the branches and the boughs; that is, that the natural subjects of the crown or state, b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: By all means it is to be procured, that the trunk of Nebuchadnezzar's tree of monarchy, be great enough to bear the branches and the boughs; that is, that the natural subjects of the crown or state, bear a sufficient proportion to the stranger subjects, that they govern. Therefore all states that ar", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_136" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is certain that sedentary, and within-door arts, and delicate manufactures (that require rather the finger than the arm), have, in their nature, a contrariety to a military disposition. And general...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is certain that sedentary, and within-door arts, and delicate manufactures (that require rather the finger than the arm), have, in their nature, a contrariety to a military disposition. And generally, all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. Neither must they be ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_137" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But above all, for empire and greatness, it importeth most, that a nation do profess arms, as their principal honor, study, and occupation.\nFor the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but hab...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But above all, for empire and greatness, it importeth most, that a nation do profess arms, as their principal honor, study, and occupation.\nFor the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitations towards arms; and what is habilitation without intention and act? Romulus, after his deat", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_138" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Incident to this point is, for a state to have those laws or customs, which may reach forth unto them just occasions (as may be pretended) of war. For there is that justice, imprinted in the nature of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Incident to this point is, for a state to have those laws or customs, which may reach forth unto them just occasions (as may be pretended) of war. For there is that justice, imprinted in the nature of men, that they enter not upon wars (whereof so many calamities do ensue) but upon some, at the leas", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_139" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war, is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war, is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health;", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_140" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To be master of the sea, is an abridgment of a monarchy. Cicero, writing to Atticus of Pompey his preparation against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari pot...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To be master of the sea, is an abridgment of a monarchy. Cicero, writing to Atticus of Pompey his preparation against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had tired out Caesar, if upon vain confidence, he", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_141" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The wars of latter ages seem to be made in the dark, in respect of the glory, and honor, which reflected upon men from the wars, in ancient time. There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The wars of latter ages seem to be made in the dark, in respect of the glory, and honor, which reflected upon men from the wars, in ancient time. There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry; which nevertheless are conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldier", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_142" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature, in this little model of a man's body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the pow...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature, in this little model of a man's body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_143" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THERE is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. But it is a safer conclusion to...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THERE is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. But it is a safer conclusion to say, This agreeth not well with me, therefore, I will not continue it; than this, I find no offence", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_144" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "SUSPICIONS amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; and they...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: SUSPICIONS amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; and they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly.\nThey dispose kings to ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_145" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "SOME, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were a praise, to know what might be said, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: SOME, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were a praise, to know what might be said, and not, what should be thought. Some have certain common places, and themes, wherein they are good and ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_146" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And generally, men ought to find the difference, between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And generally, men ought to find the difference, between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.\nHe that questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much; but especially, if he apply his", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_147" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "PLANTATIONS are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. When the world was young, it begat more children; but now it is old, it begets fewer: for I may justly account new plantations, to be th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: PLANTATIONS are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. When the world was young, it begat more children; but now it is old, it begets fewer: for I may justly account new plantations, to be the children of former kingdoms. I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not dis", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_148" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it, sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great ric", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_149" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I MEAN not to speak of divine prophecies; nor of heathen oracles; nor of natural predictions; but only of prophecies that have been of certain memory, and from hidden causes. Saith the Pythonissa to S...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I MEAN not to speak of divine prophecies; nor of heathen oracles; nor of natural predictions; but only of prophecies that have been of certain memory, and from hidden causes. Saith the Pythonissa to Saul, To-morrow thou and thy son shall be with me. Homer hath these verses:", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_150" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "--Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec sit terris Ultima Thule:", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: --Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec sit terris Ultima Thule:", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_151" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "a prophecy of the discovery of America. The daughter of Polycrates, dreamed that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to pass, that he was crucified in an open place, where ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: a prophecy of the discovery of America. The daughter of Polycrates, dreamed that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to pass, that he was crucified in an open place, where the sun made his body run with sweat, and the rain washed it. Philip of Macedon dreamed, he sealed u", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_152" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "whereby it was generally conceived, that after the princes had reigned, which had the principal letters of that word hempe (which were Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, and Elizabeth), England should come ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: whereby it was generally conceived, that after the princes had reigned, which had the principal letters of that word hempe (which were Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, and Elizabeth), England should come to utter confusion; which, thanks be to God, is verified only in the change of the name; for that th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_153" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There shall be seen upon a day, Between the Baugh and the May, The black fleet of Norway.\n When that that is come and gone, England build houses of lime and stone, For after wars shall you have none.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There shall be seen upon a day, Between the Baugh and the May, The black fleet of Norway.\n When that that is come and gone, England build houses of lime and stone, For after wars shall you have none.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_154" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It was generally conceived to be meant, of the Spanish fleet that came in '88: for that the king of Spain's surname, as they say, is Norway.\nThe prediction of Regiomontanus,", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It was generally conceived to be meant, of the Spanish fleet that came in '88: for that the king of Spain's surname, as they say, is Norway.\nThe prediction of Regiomontanus,", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_155" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "was thought likewise accomplished in the sending of that great fleet, being the greatest in strength, though not in number, of all that ever swam upon the sea. As for Cleon's dream, I think it was a j...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: was thought likewise accomplished in the sending of that great fleet, being the greatest in strength, though not in number, of all that ever swam upon the sea. As for Cleon's dream, I think it was a jest. It was, that he was devoured of a long dragon; and it was expounded of a maker of sausages, tha", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_156" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "AMBITION is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: AMBITION is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous. So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_157" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations.\nBut yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations.\nBut yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in quire, placed alo", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_158" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry; especially if they be drawn with strange beasts: as lions, bears, came...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry; especially if they be drawn with strange beasts: as lions, bears, camels, and the like; or in the devices of their entrance; or in the bravery of their liveries; or in th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_159" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "NATURE is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. Force, maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse, maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and s...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: NATURE is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. Force, maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse, maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature. He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too sm", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_160" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Neither is the ancient rule amiss, to bend nature, as a wand, to a contrary extreme, whereby to set it right, understanding it, where the contrary extreme is no vice. Let not a man force a habit upon ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Neither is the ancient rule amiss, to bend nature, as a wand, to a contrary extreme, whereby to set it right, understanding it, where the contrary extreme is no vice. Let not a man force a habit upon himself, with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission. For both the pause reinforceth th", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_161" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "MEN'S thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed. And th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: MEN'S thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed. And therefore, as Machiavel well noteth (though in an evil-favored instance), there is no trusting to the ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_162" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT CANNOT be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Faber q...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT CANNOT be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Faber quisque fortunae suae, saith the poet. And the most frequent of external causes is, that the folly of", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_163" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "MANY have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity, the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe. That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: MANY have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity, the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe. That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. That the usurer is the drone, that Virgil speaketh of;", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_164" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That the usurer breaketh the first law, that was made for mankind after the fall, which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore vultus alieni. That usurers should have orange-tawn...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That the usurer breaketh the first law, that was made for mankind after the fall, which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore vultus alieni. That usurers should have orange-tawny bonnets, because they do judaize. That it is against nature for money to beget money; and the like", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_165" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The discommodities of usury are, First, that it makes fewer merchants.\nFor were it not for this lazy trade of usury, money would not be still, but would in great part be employed upon merchandizing; w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The discommodities of usury are, First, that it makes fewer merchants.\nFor were it not for this lazy trade of usury, money would not be still, but would in great part be employed upon merchandizing; which is the vena porta of wealth in a state. The second, that it makes poor merchants. For, as a far", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_166" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "On the other side, the commodities of usury are, first, that howsoever usury in some respect hindereth merchandizing, yet in some other it advanceth it; for it is certain that the greatest part of tra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: On the other side, the commodities of usury are, first, that howsoever usury in some respect hindereth merchandizing, yet in some other it advanceth it; for it is certain that the greatest part of trade is driven by young merchants, upon borrowing at interest; so as if the usurer either call in, or ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_167" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To speak now of the reformation, and reiglement, of usury; how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities retained.\nIt appears, by the balance of commodities and discommodities ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To speak now of the reformation, and reiglement, of usury; how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities retained.\nIt appears, by the balance of commodities and discommodities of usury, two things are to be reconciled. The one, that the tooth of usury be grinded, that it bite", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_168" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To serve both intentions, the way would be briefly thus. That there be two rates of usury: the one free, and general for all; the other under license only, to certain persons, and in certain places of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To serve both intentions, the way would be briefly thus. That there be two rates of usury: the one free, and general for all; the other under license only, to certain persons, and in certain places of merchandizing. First, therefore, let usury in general, be reduced to five in the hundred; and let t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_169" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "If it be objected that this doth in a sort authorize usury, which before, was in some places but permissive; the answer is, that it is better to mitigate usury, by declaration, than to suffer it to ra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: If it be objected that this doth in a sort authorize usury, which before, was in some places but permissive; the answer is, that it is better to mitigate usury, by declaration, than to suffer it to rage, by connivance.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_170" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A MAN that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A MAN that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old;", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_171" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.\nYoung men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.\nYoung men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_172" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_173" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature. Certainly there is a consent, between the body and the mind; and where natu", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_174" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets; who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house, upon an ill seat, ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_175" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To pass from the seat, to the house itself; we will do as Cicero doth in the orator's art; who writes books De Oratore, and a book he entitles Orator; whereof the former, delivers the precepts of the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To pass from the seat, to the house itself; we will do as Cicero doth in the orator's art; who writes books De Oratore, and a book he entitles Orator; whereof the former, delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter, the perfection. We will therefore describe a princely palace, making a brief mo", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_176" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "First, therefore, I say you cannot have a perfect palace except you have two several sides; a side for the banquet, as it is spoken of in the book of Hester, and a side for the household; the one for ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: First, therefore, I say you cannot have a perfect palace except you have two several sides; a side for the banquet, as it is spoken of in the book of Hester, and a side for the household; the one for feasts and triumphs, and the other for dwelling. I understand both these sides to be not only return", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_177" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Beyond this front, is there to be a fair court, but three sides of it, of a far lower building than the front. And in all the four corners of that court, fair staircases, cast into turrets, on the out...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Beyond this front, is there to be a fair court, but three sides of it, of a far lower building than the front. And in all the four corners of that court, fair staircases, cast into turrets, on the outside, and not within the row of buildings themselves. But those towers, are not to be of the height ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_178" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Beyond this court, let there be an inward court, of the same square and height; which is to be environed with the garden on all sides; and in the inside, cloistered on all sides, upon decent and beaut...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Beyond this court, let there be an inward court, of the same square and height; which is to be environed with the garden on all sides; and in the inside, cloistered on all sides, upon decent and beautiful arches, as high as the first story. On the under story, towards the garden, let it be turned to", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_179" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "GOD Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: GOD Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_180" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of thei", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_181" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For gardens (speaking of those which are indeed princelike, as we have done of buildings), the contents ought not well to be under thirty acres of ground; and to be divided into three parts; a green i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For gardens (speaking of those which are indeed princelike, as we have done of buildings), the contents ought not well to be under thirty acres of ground; and to be divided into three parts; a green in the entrance; a heath or desert in the going forth; and the main garden in the midst; besides alle", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_182" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the ordering of the ground, within the great hedge, I leave it to variety of device; advising nevertheless, that whatsoever form you cast it into, first, it be not too busy, or full of work. Where...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the ordering of the ground, within the great hedge, I leave it to variety of device; advising nevertheless, that whatsoever form you cast it into, first, it be not too busy, or full of work. Wherein I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_183" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For fountains, they are a great beauty and refreshment; but pools mar all, and make the garden unwholesome, and full of flies and frogs.\nFountains I intend to be of two natures: the one that sprinklet...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For fountains, they are a great beauty and refreshment; but pools mar all, and make the garden unwholesome, and full of flies and frogs.\nFountains I intend to be of two natures: the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water; the other a fair receipt of water, of some thirty or forty foot square, but wit", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_184" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the heath, which was the third part of our plot, I wish it to be framed, as much as may be, to a natural wildness. Trees I would have none in it, but some thickets made only of sweet-briar and hon...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the heath, which was the third part of our plot, I wish it to be framed, as much as may be, to a natural wildness. Trees I would have none in it, but some thickets made only of sweet-briar and honeysuckle, and some wild vine amongst; and the ground set with violets, strawberries, and primroses. ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_185" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the side grounds, you are to fill them with variety of alleys, private, to give a full shade, some of them, wheresoever the sun be.\nYou are to frame some of them, likewise, for shelter, that when ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the side grounds, you are to fill them with variety of alleys, private, to give a full shade, some of them, wheresoever the sun be.\nYou are to frame some of them, likewise, for shelter, that when the wind blows sharp you may walk as in a gallery. And those alleys must be likewise hedged at both ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_186" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the main garden, I do not deny, but there should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides, with fruit-trees; and some pretty tufts of fruit-trees, and arbors with seats, set in some decent order; ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the main garden, I do not deny, but there should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides, with fruit-trees; and some pretty tufts of fruit-trees, and arbors with seats, set in some decent order; but these to be by no means set too thick; but to leave the main garden so as it be not close, but t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_187" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may have more scope, and natural nesting, and that ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may have more scope, and natural nesting, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary. So I have made a platform of a princely garden, partl", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_188" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT IS generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man's self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by letter back again; or when it may se...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT IS generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man's self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by letter back again; or when it may serve for a man's justification afterwards to produce his own letter; or where it may be danger to be ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_189" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. I reckon to be costly, not them alone which charge the purse, but which are wearisome, and im...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. I reckon to be costly, not them alone which charge the purse, but which are wearisome, and importune in suits. Ordinary followers ought to challenge no higher conditions, than countenance, reco", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_190" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "MANY ill matters and projects are undertaken; and private suits do putrefy the public good. Many good matters, are undertaken with bad minds; I mean not only corrupt minds, but crafty minds, that inte...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: MANY ill matters and projects are undertaken; and private suits do putrefy the public good. Many good matters, are undertaken with bad minds; I mean not only corrupt minds, but crafty minds, that intend not performance. Some embrace suits, which never mean to deal effectually in them; but if they se", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_191" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and dispositi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the ge", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_192" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great person to govern his proceedings, according to the respect of factions, is a principal part of policy; whereas con...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great person to govern his proceedings, according to the respect of factions, is a principal part of policy; whereas contrariwise, the chiefest wisdom, is either in ordering those things which are general, and wherein me", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_193" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "HE THAT is only real, had need have exceeding great parts of virtue; as the stone had need to be rich, that is set without foil. But if a man mark it well, it is, in praise and commendation of men, as...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: HE THAT is only real, had need have exceeding great parts of virtue; as the stone had need to be rich, that is set without foil. But if a man mark it well, it is, in praise and commendation of men, as it is in gettings and gains: for the proverb is true, That light gains make heavy purses; for light", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_194" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "PRAISE is the reflection of virtue; but it is as the glass or body, which giveth the reflection. If it be from the common people, it is commonly false and naught; and rather followeth vain persons, th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: PRAISE is the reflection of virtue; but it is as the glass or body, which giveth the reflection. If it be from the common people, it is commonly false and naught; and rather followeth vain persons, than virtuous. For the common people understand not many excellent virtues.\nThe lowest virtues draw pr", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_195" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IT WAS prettily devised of AEsop, The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain persons, that whatsoever goeth alone, or moveth upon gre...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IT WAS prettily devised of AEsop, The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain persons, that whatsoever goeth alone, or moveth upon greater means, if they have never so little hand in it, they think it is they that carry it. They that ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_196" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage. For some in their actions, do woo and effect honor and reputation, which sort of men, are commonly much ta...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage. For some in their actions, do woo and effect honor and reputation, which sort of men, are commonly much talked of, but inwardly little admired. And some, contrariwise, darken their virtue in the show of it;", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_197" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The true marshalling of the degrees of sovereign honor, are these: In the first place are conditores imperiorum, founders of states and commonwealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Caesar, Ottoman, Ism...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The true marshalling of the degrees of sovereign honor, are these: In the first place are conditores imperiorum, founders of states and commonwealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Caesar, Ottoman, Ismael.\nIn the second place are legislatores, lawgivers; which are also called second founders, or perp", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_198" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "JUDGES ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, whic...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: JUDGES ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, which under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter; and to pronounce that w", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_199" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "First, for the causes or parties that sue. There be (saith the Scripture) that turn judgment, into wormwood; and surely there be also, that turn it into vinegar; for injustice maketh it bitter, and de...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: First, for the causes or parties that sue. There be (saith the Scripture) that turn judgment, into wormwood; and surely there be also, that turn it into vinegar; for injustice maketh it bitter, and delays make it sour. The principal duty of a judge, is to suppress force and fraud; whereof force is t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_200" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Secondly, for the advocates and counsel that plead. Patience and gravity of hearing, is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge, firs...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Secondly, for the advocates and counsel that plead. Patience and gravity of hearing, is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge, first to find that, which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit,", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_201" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Thirdly, for that that concerns clerks and ministers. The place of justice is an hallowed place; and therefore not only the bench, but the foot-place; and precincts and purprise thereof, ought to be p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Thirdly, for that that concerns clerks and ministers. The place of justice is an hallowed place; and therefore not only the bench, but the foot-place; and precincts and purprise thereof, ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption. For certainly grapes (as the Scripture saith) will not be g", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_202" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Fourthly, for that which may concern the sovereign and estate. Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex; and to know that laws, except the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Fourthly, for that which may concern the sovereign and estate. Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex; and to know that laws, except they be in order to that end, are but things captious, and oracles not well inspired.\nTherefore it is a", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_203" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "TO SEEK to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: TO SEEK to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time. We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry, may be att", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_204" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the first; there is no other way but to meditate, and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man's life. And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the first; there is no other way but to meditate, and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man's life. And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over.\nSeneca saith well, That anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_205" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_206" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For the second point; the causes and motives of anger, are chiefly three. First, to be too sensible of hurt; for no man is angry, that feels not himself hurt; and therefore tender and delicate persons...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For the second point; the causes and motives of anger, are chiefly three. First, to be too sensible of hurt; for no man is angry, that feels not himself hurt; and therefore tender and delicate persons must needs be oft angry; they have so many things to trouble them, which more robust natures have l", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_207" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To contain anger from mischief, though it take hold of a man, there be two things, whereof you must have special caution. The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and pr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To contain anger from mischief, though it take hold of a man, there be two things, whereof you must have special caution. The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so much; and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_208" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For raising and appeasing anger in another; it is done chiefly by choosing of times, when men are frowardest and worst disposed, to incense them. Again, by gathering (as was touched before) all that y...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For raising and appeasing anger in another; it is done chiefly by choosing of times, when men are frowardest and worst disposed, to incense them. Again, by gathering (as was touched before) all that you can find out, to aggravate the contempt. And the two remedies are by the contraries. The former t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_209" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "SOLOMON saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, That all novelty is but oblivion. Wher...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: SOLOMON saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, That all novelty is but oblivion. Whereby you may see, that the river of Lethe runneth as well above ground as below.\nThere is an abstruse", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_210" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The vicissitude of mutations in the superior globe, are no fit matter for this present argument. It may be, Plato's great year, if the world should last so long, would have some effect; not in renewin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The vicissitude of mutations in the superior globe, are no fit matter for this present argument. It may be, Plato's great year, if the world should last so long, would have some effect; not in renewing the state of like individuals (for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies h", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_211" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is a toy which I have heard, and I would not have it given over, but waited upon a little. They say it is observed in the Low Countries (I know not in what part) that every five and thirty years...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is a toy which I have heard, and I would not have it given over, but waited upon a little. They say it is observed in the Low Countries (I know not in what part) that every five and thirty years, the same kind and suit of years and weathers come about again; as great frosts, great wet, great d", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_212" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But to leave these points of nature, and to come to men. The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. For those orbs rule in men's minds most. The true re...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But to leave these points of nature, and to come to men. The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. For those orbs rule in men's minds most. The true religion is built upon the rock; the rest are tossed, upon the waves of time. 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For great empires, while they stand, do enervate and destroy the forces of the natives which they have subdued, resting upon their own protecting forces; and then when they fail also, all goes to ruin, and the", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_215" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As for the weapons, it hardly falleth under rule and observation: yet we see even they, have returns and vicissitudes. For certain it is, that ordnance was known in the city of the Oxidrakes in India;...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As for the weapons, it hardly falleth under rule and observation: yet we see even they, have returns and vicissitudes. For certain it is, that ordnance was known in the city of the Oxidrakes in India; and was that, which the Macedonians called thunder and lightning, and magic. 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Learning...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize. Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxurian", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_218" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "THE poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously. They say, look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath underneath; so ma...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: THE poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously. 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There follow excellent parables; as that, she gathereth strength in going; that she goeth upon the ground, and yet hideth her head in the clouds; that in the daytime she sitteth in a watch tower, and flieth most by night; that she mingleth things done, with things not done; and t", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_220" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Abridgment: miniature Absurd: stupid, unpolished Abuse: cheat, deceive Aculeate: stinging Adamant: loadstone Adust: scorched Advoutress: adulteress Affect: like, desire Antic: clown Appose: question A...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Abridgment: miniature Absurd: stupid, unpolished Abuse: cheat, deceive Aculeate: stinging Adamant: loadstone Adust: scorched Advoutress: adulteress Affect: like, desire Antic: clown Appose: question Arietation: battering-ram Audit: revenue Avoidance: secret outlet Battle: battalion Bestow: settle in", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_221" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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We do not ", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_249" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who approach us with offers to donate.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_250" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_251" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Please check the Project Gutenberg web pages for current donation methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations. T...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Please check the Project Gutenberg web pages for current donation methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, please visit: www.gutenberg.org/donate.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_252" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg™ concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared with anyone. For forty years, he produced and distributed Pr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg™ concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared with anyone. For forty years, he produced and distributed Project Gutenberg™ eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_253" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Project Gutenberg™ eBooks are often created from several printed editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by copyright in the U.S. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Project Gutenberg™ eBooks are often created from several printed editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by copyright in the U.S. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_254" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This website includes information about Project Gutenberg™, including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscri...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This website includes information about Project Gutenberg™, including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks.", "source": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral", "segment_id": "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral_para_255" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philoso...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and learning. For they have tended to stifle and interrupt inquiry exactly in proportion as they", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_0" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Our method, though difficult in its operation, is easily explained.\nIt consists in determining the degrees of certainty, while we, as it were, restore the senses to their former rank, but generally re...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Our method, though difficult in its operation, is easily explained.\nIt consists in determining the degrees of certainty, while we, as it were, restore the senses to their former rank, but generally reject that operation of the mind which follows close upon the senses, and open and establish a new an", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_1" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Having premised so much, we lay down two points on which we would admonish mankind, lest they should fail to see or to observe them. The first of these is, that it is our good fortune (as we consider ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Having premised so much, we lay down two points on which we would admonish mankind, lest they should fail to see or to observe them. The first of these is, that it is our good fortune (as we consider it), for the sake of extinguishing and removing contradiction and irritation of mind, to leave the h", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_2" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We make no attempt to disturb the system of philosophy that now prevails, or any other which may or will exist, either more correct or more complete. For we deny not that the received system of philos...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We make no attempt to disturb the system of philosophy that now prevails, or any other which may or will exist, either more correct or more complete. For we deny not that the received system of philosophy, and others of a similar nature, encourage discussion, embellish harangues, are employed, and a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_3" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let there exist then (and may it be of advantage to both), two sources, and two distributions of learning, and in like manner two tribes, and as it were kindred families of contemplators or philosophe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let there exist then (and may it be of advantage to both), two sources, and two distributions of learning, and in like manner two tribes, and as it were kindred families of contemplators or philosophers, without any hostility or alienation between them; but rather allied and united by mutual assista", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_4" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have still one request left. We have at least reflected and taken pains in order to render our propositions not only true, but of easy and familiar access to men’s minds, however wonderfully prepos...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have still one request left. We have at least reflected and taken pains in order to render our propositions not only true, but of easy and familiar access to men’s minds, however wonderfully prepossessed and limited. Yet it is but just that we should obtain this favor from mankind (especially in ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_5" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_6" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "II. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are produced by the means of instruments and helps, which the understanding requires no less than the han...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: II. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are produced by the means of instruments and helps, which the understanding requires no less than the hand; and as instruments either promote or regulate the motion of the hand, so those that are applied t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_7" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "III. Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission, and that which in contemplative philosophy corresponds ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: III. Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission, and that which in contemplative philosophy corresponds with the cause in practical science becomes the rule.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_8" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "V. Those who become practically versed in nature are, the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the _magician_,[2] but all (as matters now stand) with faint efforts and meagre...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: V. Those who become practically versed in nature are, the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the _magician_,[2] but all (as matters now stand) with faint efforts and meagre success.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_10" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VI. It would be madness and inconsistency to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VI. It would be madness and inconsistency to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_11" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VII. The creations of the mind and hand appear very numerous, if we judge by books and manufactures; but all that variety consists of an excessive refinement, and of deductions from a few well known m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VII. The creations of the mind and hand appear very numerous, if we judge by books and manufactures; but all that variety consists of an excessive refinement, and of deductions from a few well known matters--_not of a number of axioms_.[3]", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_12" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VIII. Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than peculiar arrangements of matters already discover...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VIII. Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than peculiar arrangements of matters already discovered, and not methods for discovery or plans for new operations.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_13" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IX. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this, that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind, we do not search for its real helps.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IX. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this, that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind, we do not search for its real helps.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_14" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "X. The subtilty of nature is far beyond that of sense or of the understanding: so that the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: X. The subtilty of nature is far beyond that of sense or of the understanding: so that the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_15" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XI. As the present sciences are useless for the discovery of effects, so the present system of logic[4] is useless for the discovery of the sciences.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XI. As the present sciences are useless for the discovery of effects, so the present system of logic[4] is useless for the discovery of the sciences.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_16" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XII. The present system of logic rather assists in confirming and rendering inveterate the errors founded on vulgar notions than in searching after truth, and is therefore more hurtful than useful.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XII. The present system of logic rather assists in confirming and rendering inveterate the errors founded on vulgar notions than in searching after truth, and is therefore more hurtful than useful.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_17" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIII. The syllogism is not applied to the principles of the sciences, and is of no avail in intermediate axioms,[5] as being very unequal to the subtilty of nature. It forces assent, therefore, and no...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIII. The syllogism is not applied to the principles of the sciences, and is of no avail in intermediate axioms,[5] as being very unequal to the subtilty of nature. It forces assent, therefore, and not things.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_18" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIV. The syllogism consists of propositions; propositions of words; words are the signs of notions. If, therefore, the notions (which form the basis of the whole) be confused and carelessly abstracted...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIV. The syllogism consists of propositions; propositions of words; words are the signs of notions. If, therefore, the notions (which form the basis of the whole) be confused and carelessly abstracted from things, there is no solidity in the superstructure. Our only hope, then, is in genuine inducti", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_19" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XV. We have no sound notions either in logic or physics; substance, quality, action, passion, and existence are not clear notions; much less weight, levity, density, tenuity, moisture, dryness, genera...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XV. We have no sound notions either in logic or physics; substance, quality, action, passion, and existence are not clear notions; much less weight, levity, density, tenuity, moisture, dryness, generation, corruption, attraction, repulsion, element, matter, form, and the like. They are all fantastic", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_20" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVI. The notions of less abstract natures, as man, dog, dove, and the immediate perceptions of sense, as heat, cold, white, black, do not deceive us materially, yet even these are sometimes confused b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVI. The notions of less abstract natures, as man, dog, dove, and the immediate perceptions of sense, as heat, cold, white, black, do not deceive us materially, yet even these are sometimes confused by the mutability of matter and the intermixture of things. All the rest which men have hitherto empl", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_21" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVII. There is the same degree of licentiousness and error in forming axioms as in abstracting notions, and that in the first principles, which depend on common induction; still more is this the case ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVII. There is the same degree of licentiousness and error in forming axioms as in abstracting notions, and that in the first principles, which depend on common induction; still more is this the case in axioms and inferior propositions derived from syllogisms.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_22" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVIII. The present discoveries in science are such as lie immediately beneath the surface of common notions. It is necessary, however, to penetrate the more secret and remote parts of nature, in order...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVIII. The present discoveries in science are such as lie immediately beneath the surface of common notions. It is necessary, however, to penetrate the more secret and remote parts of nature, in order to abstract both notions and axioms from things by a more certain and guarded method.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_23" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIX. There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from them, as principles an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIX. There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from them, as principles and their supposed indisputable truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms. This is the way ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_24" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XX. The understanding when left to itself proceeds by the same way as that which it would have adopted under the guidance of logic, namely, the first; for the mind is fond of starting off to generalit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XX. The understanding when left to itself proceeds by the same way as that which it would have adopted under the guidance of logic, namely, the first; for the mind is fond of starting off to generalities, that it may avoid labor, and after dwelling a little on a subject is fatigued by experiment. Bu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_25" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXI. The understanding, when left to itself in a man of a steady, patient, and reflecting disposition (especially when unimpeded by received doctrines), makes some attempt in the right way, but with l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXI. The understanding, when left to itself in a man of a steady, patient, and reflecting disposition (especially when unimpeded by received doctrines), makes some attempt in the right way, but with little effect, since the understanding, undirected and unassisted, is unequal to and unfit for the ta", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_26" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXII. Each of these two ways begins from the senses and particulars, and ends in the greatest generalities. But they are immeasurably different; for the one merely touches cursorily the limits of expe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXII. Each of these two ways begins from the senses and particulars, and ends in the greatest generalities. But they are immeasurably different; for the one merely touches cursorily the limits of experiment and particulars, while the other runs duly and regularly through them--the one from the very ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_27" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIII. There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind--that is to say, between certain idle dogmas and the real stamp and impression of created objec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIII. There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind--that is to say, between certain idle dogmas and the real stamp and impression of created objects, as they are found in nature.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_28" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIV. Axioms determined upon in argument can never assist in the discovery of new effects; for the subtilty of nature is vastly superior to that of argument. But axioms properly and regularly abstract...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIV. Axioms determined upon in argument can never assist in the discovery of new effects; for the subtilty of nature is vastly superior to that of argument. But axioms properly and regularly abstracted from particulars easily point out and define new particulars, and therefore impart activity to th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_29" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXV. The axioms now in use are derived from a scanty handful, as it were, of experience, and a few particulars of frequent occurrence, whence they are of much the same dimensions or extent as their or...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXV. The axioms now in use are derived from a scanty handful, as it were, of experience, and a few particulars of frequent occurrence, whence they are of much the same dimensions or extent as their origin.\nAnd if any neglected or unknown instance occurs, the axiom is saved by some frivolous distinct", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_30" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXVI. We are wont, for the sake of distinction, to call that human reasoning which we apply to nature the anticipation of nature (as being rash and premature), and that which is properly deduced from ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXVI. We are wont, for the sake of distinction, to call that human reasoning which we apply to nature the anticipation of nature (as being rash and premature), and that which is properly deduced from things the interpretation of nature.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_31" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXVII. Anticipations are sufficiently powerful in producing unanimity, for if men were all to become even uniformly mad, they might agree tolerably well with each other.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXVII. Anticipations are sufficiently powerful in producing unanimity, for if men were all to become even uniformly mad, they might agree tolerably well with each other.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_32" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXVIII. Anticipations again, will be assented to much more readily than interpretations, because being deduced from a few instances, and these principally of familiar occurrence, they immediately hit ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXVIII. Anticipations again, will be assented to much more readily than interpretations, because being deduced from a few instances, and these principally of familiar occurrence, they immediately hit the understanding and satisfy the imagination; while, on the contrary, interpretations, being deduce", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_33" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIX. In sciences founded on opinions and dogmas, it is right to make use of anticipations and logic if you wish to force assent rather than things.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIX. In sciences founded on opinions and dogmas, it is right to make use of anticipations and logic if you wish to force assent rather than things.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_34" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXX. If all the capacities of all ages should unite and combine and transmit their labors, no great progress will be made in learning by anticipations, because the radical errors, and those which occu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXX. If all the capacities of all ages should unite and combine and transmit their labors, no great progress will be made in learning by anticipations, because the radical errors, and those which occur in the first process of the mind, are not cured by the excellence of subsequent means and remedies", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_35" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXI. It is in vain to expect any great progress in the sciences by the superinducing or ingrafting new matters upon old. An instauration must be made from the very foundations, if we do not wish to r...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXI. It is in vain to expect any great progress in the sciences by the superinducing or ingrafting new matters upon old. An instauration must be made from the very foundations, if we do not wish to revolve forever in a circle, making only some slight and contemptible progress.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_36" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXII. The ancient authors and all others are left in undisputed possession of their honors; for we enter into no comparison of capacity or talent, but of method, and assume the part of a guide rather...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXII. The ancient authors and all others are left in undisputed possession of their honors; for we enter into no comparison of capacity or talent, but of method, and assume the part of a guide rather than of a critic.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_37" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXIII. To speak plainly, no correct judgment can be formed either of our method or its discoveries by those anticipations which are now in common use; for it is not to be required of us to submit our...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXIII. To speak plainly, no correct judgment can be formed either of our method or its discoveries by those anticipations which are now in common use; for it is not to be required of us to submit ourselves to the judgment of the very method we ourselves arraign.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_38" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXIV. Nor is it an easy matter to deliver and explain our sentiments; for those things which are in themselves new can yet be only understood from some analogy to what is old.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXIV. Nor is it an easy matter to deliver and explain our sentiments; for those things which are in themselves new can yet be only understood from some analogy to what is old.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_39" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXV. Alexander Borgia[7] said of the expedition of the French into Italy that they came with chalk in their hands to mark up their lodgings, and not with weapons to force their passage. Even so do we...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXV. Alexander Borgia[7] said of the expedition of the French into Italy that they came with chalk in their hands to mark up their lodgings, and not with weapons to force their passage. Even so do we wish our philosophy to make its way quietly into those minds that are fit for it, and of good capac", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_40" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXVI. We have but one simple method of delivering our sentiments, namely, we must bring men to particulars and their regular series and order, and they must for a while renounce their notions, and be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXVI. We have but one simple method of delivering our sentiments, namely, we must bring men to particulars and their regular series and order, and they must for a while renounce their notions, and begin to form an acquaintance with things.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_41" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXVII. Our method and that of the sceptics[8] agree in some respects at first setting out, but differ most widely, and are completely opposed to each other in their conclusion; for they roundly asser...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXVII. Our method and that of the sceptics[8] agree in some respects at first setting out, but differ most widely, and are completely opposed to each other in their conclusion; for they roundly assert that nothing can be known; we, that but a small part of nature can be known, by the present method", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_42" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXVIII. The idols and false notions which have already preoccupied the human understanding, and are deeply rooted in it, not only so beset men’s minds that they become difficult of access, but even w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXVIII. The idols and false notions which have already preoccupied the human understanding, and are deeply rooted in it, not only so beset men’s minds that they become difficult of access, but even when access is obtained will again meet and trouble us in the instauration of the sciences, unless ma", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_43" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXIX. Four species of idols beset the human mind,[9] to which (for distinction’s sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXIX. Four species of idols beset the human mind,[9] to which (for distinction’s sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_44" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XL. The formation of notions and axioms on the foundation of true induction is the only fitting remedy by which we can ward off and expel these idols. It is, however, of great service to point them ou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XL. The formation of notions and axioms on the foundation of true induction is the only fitting remedy by which we can ward off and expel these idols. It is, however, of great service to point them out; for the doctrine of idols bears the same relation to the interpretation of nature as that of the ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_45" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLI. The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man’s sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLI. The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man’s sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the universe, and the human mind resembl", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_46" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLII. The idols of the den are those of each individual; for everybody (in addition to the errors common to the race of man) has his own individual den or cavern, which intercepts and corrupts the lig...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLII. The idols of the den are those of each individual; for everybody (in addition to the errors common to the race of man) has his own individual den or cavern, which intercepts and corrupts the light of nature, either from his own peculiar and singular disposition, or from his education and inter", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_47" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLIII. There are also idols formed by the reciprocal intercourse and society of man with man, which we call idols of the market, from the commerce and association of men with each other; for men conve...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLIII. There are also idols formed by the reciprocal intercourse and society of man with man, which we call idols of the market, from the commerce and association of men with each other; for men converse by means of language, but words are formed at the will of the generality, and there arises from ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_48" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLIV. Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men’s minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLIV. Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men’s minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate idols of the theatre: for we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as s", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_49" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLV. The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds; and although many things in nature be _sui generis_ and m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLV. The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds; and although many things in nature be _sui generis_ and most irregular, will yet invent parallels and conjugates and relatives, where no such thing is. Hence", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_50" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLVI. The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down (either from general admission and belief, or from the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLVI. The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down (either from general admission and belief, or from the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet either", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_51" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLVII. The human understanding is most excited by that which strikes and enters the mind at once and suddenly, and by which the imagination is immediately filled and inflated. It then begins almost im...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLVII. The human understanding is most excited by that which strikes and enters the mind at once and suddenly, and by which the imagination is immediately filled and inflated. It then begins almost imperceptibly to conceive and suppose that everything is similar to the few objects which have taken p", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_52" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLVIII. The human understanding is active and cannot halt or rest, but even, though without effect, still presses forward. Thus we cannot conceive of any end or external boundary of the world, and it ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLVIII. The human understanding is active and cannot halt or rest, but even, though without effect, still presses forward. Thus we cannot conceive of any end or external boundary of the world, and it seems necessarily to occur to us that there must be something beyond. Nor can we imagine how eternit", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_53" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLIX. The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will[17] and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for man always believes more readily that whic...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLIX. The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will[17] and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for man always believes more readily that which he prefers. He, therefore, rejects difficulties for want of patience in investigation; sobriety, b", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_54" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "L. But by far the greatest impediment and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dulness, incompetence, and errors of the senses; since whatever strikes the senses preponderates over ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: L. But by far the greatest impediment and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dulness, incompetence, and errors of the senses; since whatever strikes the senses preponderates over everything, however superior, which does not immediately strike them.\nHence contemplation mostly cea", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_55" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LI. The human understanding is, by its own nature, prone to abstraction, and supposes that which is fluctuating to be fixed. But it is better to dissect than abstract nature: such was the method emplo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LI. The human understanding is, by its own nature, prone to abstraction, and supposes that which is fluctuating to be fixed. But it is better to dissect than abstract nature: such was the method employed by the school of Democritus,[19] which made greater progress in penetrating nature than the rest", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_56" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LII. Such are the idols of the tribe, which arise either from the uniformity of the constitution of man’s spirit, or its prejudices, or its limited faculties or restless agitation, or from the interfe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LII. Such are the idols of the tribe, which arise either from the uniformity of the constitution of man’s spirit, or its prejudices, or its limited faculties or restless agitation, or from the interference of the passions, or the incompetence of the senses, or the mode of their impressions.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_57" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LIII. The idols of the den derive their origin from the peculiar nature of each individual’s mind and body, and also from education, habit, and accident; and although they be various and manifold, yet...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LIII. The idols of the den derive their origin from the peculiar nature of each individual’s mind and body, and also from education, habit, and accident; and although they be various and manifold, yet we will treat of some that require the greatest caution, and exert the greatest power in polluting ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_58" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LIV. Some men become attached to particular sciences and contemplations, either from supposing themselves the authors and inventors of them, or from having bestowed the greatest pains upon such subjec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LIV. Some men become attached to particular sciences and contemplations, either from supposing themselves the authors and inventors of them, or from having bestowed the greatest pains upon such subjects, and thus become most habituated to them.[22] If men of this description apply themselves to phil", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_59" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LV. The greatest and, perhaps, radical distinction between different men’s dispositions for philosophy and the sciences is this, that some are more vigorous and active in observing the differences of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LV. The greatest and, perhaps, radical distinction between different men’s dispositions for philosophy and the sciences is this, that some are more vigorous and active in observing the differences of things, others in observing their resemblances; for a steady and acute disposition can fix its thoug", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_60" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LVI. Some dispositions evince an unbounded admiration of antiquity, others eagerly embrace novelty, and but few can preserve the just medium, so as neither to tear up what the ancients have correctly ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LVI. Some dispositions evince an unbounded admiration of antiquity, others eagerly embrace novelty, and but few can preserve the just medium, so as neither to tear up what the ancients have correctly laid down, nor to despise the just innovations of the moderns. But this is very prejudicial to the s", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_61" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LVII. The contemplation of nature and of bodies in their individual form distracts and weakens the understanding; but the contemplation of nature and of bodies in their general composition and formati...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LVII. The contemplation of nature and of bodies in their individual form distracts and weakens the understanding; but the contemplation of nature and of bodies in their general composition and formation stupefies and relaxes it. We have a good instance of this in the school of Leucippus and Democrit", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_62" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LVIII. Let such, therefore, be our precautions in contemplation, that we may ward off and expel the idols of the den, which mostly owe their birth either to some predominant pursuit, or, secondly, to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LVIII. Let such, therefore, be our precautions in contemplation, that we may ward off and expel the idols of the den, which mostly owe their birth either to some predominant pursuit, or, secondly, to an excess in synthesis and analysis, or, thirdly, to a party zeal in favor of certain ages, or, four", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_63" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LIX. The idols of the market are the most troublesome of all, those namely which have entwined themselves round the understanding from the associations of words and names. For men imagine that their r...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LIX. The idols of the market are the most troublesome of all, those namely which have entwined themselves round the understanding from the associations of words and names. For men imagine that their reason governs words, while, in fact, words react upon the understanding; and this has rendered philo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_64" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LX. The idols imposed upon the understanding by words are of two kinds. They are either the names of things which have no existence (for as some objects are from inattention left without a name, so na...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LX. The idols imposed upon the understanding by words are of two kinds. They are either the names of things which have no existence (for as some objects are from inattention left without a name, so names are formed by fanciful imaginations which are without an object), or they are the names of actua", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_65" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There are, however, different degrees of distortion and mistake in words. One of the least faulty classes is that of the names of substances, particularly of the less abstract and more defined species...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There are, however, different degrees of distortion and mistake in words. One of the least faulty classes is that of the names of substances, particularly of the less abstract and more defined species (those then of chalk and mud are good, of earth bad); words signifying actions are more faulty, as ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_66" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXI. The idols of the theatre are not innate, nor do they introduce themselves secretly into the understanding, but they are manifestly instilled and cherished by the fictions of theories and depraved...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXI. The idols of the theatre are not innate, nor do they introduce themselves secretly into the understanding, but they are manifestly instilled and cherished by the fictions of theories and depraved rules of demonstration. To attempt, however, or undertake their confutation would not be consistent", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_67" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Our method of discovering the sciences is such as to leave little to the acuteness and strength of wit, and indeed rather to level wit and intellect. For as in the drawing of a straight line, or accur...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Our method of discovering the sciences is such as to leave little to the acuteness and strength of wit, and indeed rather to level wit and intellect. For as in the drawing of a straight line, or accurate circle by the hand, much depends on its steadiness and practice, but if a ruler or compass be em", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_68" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXII. The idols of the theatre, or of theories, are numerous, and may, and perhaps will, be still more so. For unless men’s minds had been now occupied for many ages in religious and theological consi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXII. The idols of the theatre, or of theories, are numerous, and may, and perhaps will, be still more so. For unless men’s minds had been now occupied for many ages in religious and theological considerations, and civil governments (especially monarchies), had been averse to novelties of that natur", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_69" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In general, men take for the groundwork of their philosophy either too much from a few topics, or too little from many; in either case their philosophy is founded on too narrow a basis of experiment a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In general, men take for the groundwork of their philosophy either too much from a few topics, or too little from many; in either case their philosophy is founded on too narrow a basis of experiment and natural history, and decides on too scanty grounds. For the theoretic philosopher seizes various ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_70" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There are other philosophers who have diligently and accurately attended to a few experiments, and have thence presumed to deduce and invent systems of philosophy, forming everything to conformity wit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There are other philosophers who have diligently and accurately attended to a few experiments, and have thence presumed to deduce and invent systems of philosophy, forming everything to conformity with them.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_71" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A third set, from their faith and religious veneration, introduce theology and traditions; the absurdity of some among them having proceeded so far as to seek and derive the sciences from spirits and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A third set, from their faith and religious veneration, introduce theology and traditions; the absurdity of some among them having proceeded so far as to seek and derive the sciences from spirits and genii. There are, therefore, three sources of error and three species of false philosophy; the sophi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_72" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXIII. Aristotle affords the most eminent instance of the first; for he corrupted natural philosophy by logic--thus he formed the world of categories, assigned to the human soul, the noblest of substa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXIII. Aristotle affords the most eminent instance of the first; for he corrupted natural philosophy by logic--thus he formed the world of categories, assigned to the human soul, the noblest of substances, a genus determined by words of secondary operation, treated of density and rarity (by which bo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_73" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXIV. The empiric school produces dogmas of a more deformed and monstrous nature than the sophistic or theoretic school; not being founded in the light of common notions (which, however poor and super...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXIV. The empiric school produces dogmas of a more deformed and monstrous nature than the sophistic or theoretic school; not being founded in the light of common notions (which, however poor and superstitious, is yet in a manner universal, and of a general tendency), but in the confined obscurity of", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_74" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXV. The corruption of philosophy by the mixing of it up with superstition and theology, is of a much wider extent, and is most injurious to it both as a whole and in parts. For the human understandin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXV. The corruption of philosophy by the mixing of it up with superstition and theology, is of a much wider extent, and is most injurious to it both as a whole and in parts. For the human understanding is no less exposed to the impressions of fancy, than to those of vulgar notions. The disputatious ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_75" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is a clear example of this among the Greeks, especially in Pythagoras, where, however, the superstition is coarse and overcharged, but it is more dangerous and refined in Plato and his school. T...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is a clear example of this among the Greeks, especially in Pythagoras, where, however, the superstition is coarse and overcharged, but it is more dangerous and refined in Plato and his school. This evil is found also in some branches of other systems of philosophy, where it introduces abstract", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_76" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXVI. Having spoken of the vicious authority of the systems founded either on vulgar notions, or on a few experiments, or on superstition, we must now consider the faulty subjects for contemplation, e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXVI. Having spoken of the vicious authority of the systems founded either on vulgar notions, or on a few experiments, or on superstition, we must now consider the faulty subjects for contemplation, especially in natural philosophy. The human understanding is perverted by observing the power of mech", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_77" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A greater evil arises from the contemplation and investigation rather of the stationary principles of things from which, than of the active by which things themselves are created. For the former only ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A greater evil arises from the contemplation and investigation rather of the stationary principles of things from which, than of the active by which things themselves are created. For the former only serve for discussion, the latter for practice. Nor is any value to be set on those common difference", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_78" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if, neglecting these, any one were, for instance, to observe that there is in bodies a tendency of adhesion, so as not to suffer the unity of nature to be completely separated or broken, and a _va...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if, neglecting these, any one were, for instance, to observe that there is in bodies a tendency of adhesion, so as not to suffer the unity of nature to be completely separated or broken, and a _vacuum_[30] to be formed, or that they have a tendency to return to their natural dimensions or tensio", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_79" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Another considerable evil is, that men in their systems and contemplations bestow their labor upon the investigation and discussion of the principles of things and the extreme limits of nature, althou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Another considerable evil is, that men in their systems and contemplations bestow their labor upon the investigation and discussion of the principles of things and the extreme limits of nature, although all utility and means of action consist in the intermediate objects.\nHence men cease not to abstr", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_80" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXVII. The understanding must also be cautioned against the intemperance of systems, so far as regards its giving or withholding its assent; for such intemperance appears to fix and perpetuate idols, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXVII. The understanding must also be cautioned against the intemperance of systems, so far as regards its giving or withholding its assent; for such intemperance appears to fix and perpetuate idols, so as to leave no means of removing them.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_81" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These excesses are of two kinds. The first is seen in those who decide hastily, and render the sciences positive and dictatorial. The other in those who have introduced scepticism, and vague unbounded...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These excesses are of two kinds. The first is seen in those who decide hastily, and render the sciences positive and dictatorial. The other in those who have introduced scepticism, and vague unbounded inquiry. The former subdues, the latter enervates the understanding.\nThe Aristotelian philosophy, a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_82" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The school of Plato introduced scepticism, first, as it were in joke and irony, from their dislike to Protagoras, Hippias,[33] and others, who were ashamed of appearing not to doubt upon any subject. ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The school of Plato introduced scepticism, first, as it were in joke and irony, from their dislike to Protagoras, Hippias,[33] and others, who were ashamed of appearing not to doubt upon any subject. But the new academy dogmatized in their scepticism, and held it as their tenet.\nAlthough this method", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_83" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXVIII. We have now treated of each kind of idols, and their qualities, all of which must be abjured and renounced with firm and solemn resolution, and the understanding must be completely freed and c...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXVIII. We have now treated of each kind of idols, and their qualities, all of which must be abjured and renounced with firm and solemn resolution, and the understanding must be completely freed and cleared of them, so that the access to the kingdom of man, which is founded on the sciences, may rese", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_84" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXIX. Vicious demonstrations are the muniments and support of idols, and those which we possess in logic, merely subject and enslave the world to human thoughts, and thoughts to words. But demonstrati...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXIX. Vicious demonstrations are the muniments and support of idols, and those which we possess in logic, merely subject and enslave the world to human thoughts, and thoughts to words. But demonstrations are in some manner themselves systems of philosophy and science; for such as they are, and accor", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_85" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXX. But experience is by far the best demonstration, provided it adhere to the experiment actually made, for if that experiment be transferred to other subjects apparently similar, unless with proper...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXX. But experience is by far the best demonstration, provided it adhere to the experiment actually made, for if that experiment be transferred to other subjects apparently similar, unless with proper and methodical caution it becomes fallacious. The present method of experiment is blind and stupid;", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_86" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Even when men build any science and theory upon experiment, yet they almost always turn with premature and hasty zeal to practice, not merely on account of the advantage and benefit to be derived from...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Even when men build any science and theory upon experiment, yet they almost always turn with premature and hasty zeal to practice, not merely on account of the advantage and benefit to be derived from it, but in order to seize upon some security in a new undertaking of their not employing the remain", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_87" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXI. The sciences we possess have been principally derived from the Greeks; for the addition of the Roman, Arabic, or more modern writers, are but few and of small importance, and such as they are, a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXI. The sciences we possess have been principally derived from the Greeks; for the addition of the Roman, Arabic, or more modern writers, are but few and of small importance, and such as they are, are founded on the basis of Greek invention. But the wisdom of the Greeks was professional and disput", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_88" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXII. Nor are those much better which can be deduced from the character of the time and age, than the former from that of the country and nation; for in that age the knowledge both of time and of the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXII. Nor are those much better which can be deduced from the character of the time and age, than the former from that of the country and nation; for in that age the knowledge both of time and of the world was confined and meagre, which is one of the worst evils for those who rely entirely on exper", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_89" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXIII. Of all signs there is none more certain or worthy than that of the fruits produced, for the fruits and effects are the sureties and vouchers, as it were, for the truth of philosophy. Now, from...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXIII. Of all signs there is none more certain or worthy than that of the fruits produced, for the fruits and effects are the sureties and vouchers, as it were, for the truth of philosophy. Now, from the systems of the Greeks, and their subordinate divisions in particular branches of the sciences d", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_90" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The industry of the alchemists has produced some effect, by chance, however, and casualty, or from varying their experiments (as mechanics also do), and not from any regular art or theory, the theory ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The industry of the alchemists has produced some effect, by chance, however, and casualty, or from varying their experiments (as mechanics also do), and not from any regular art or theory, the theory they have imagined rather tending to disturb than to assist experiment. Those, too, who have occupie", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_91" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXIV. Other signs may be selected from the increase and progress of particular systems of philosophy and the sciences; for those which are founded on nature grow and increase, while those which are f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXIV. Other signs may be selected from the increase and progress of particular systems of philosophy and the sciences; for those which are founded on nature grow and increase, while those which are founded on opinion change and increase not. If, therefore, the theories we have mentioned were not li", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_92" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXV. There is yet another sign (if such it may be termed, being rather an evidence, and one of the strongest nature), namely, the actual confession of those very authorities whom men now follow; for ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXV. There is yet another sign (if such it may be termed, being rather an evidence, and one of the strongest nature), namely, the actual confession of those very authorities whom men now follow; for even they who decide on things so daringly, yet at times, when they reflect, betake themselves to co", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_93" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXVI. Nor should we omit the sign afforded by the great dissension formerly prevalent among philosophers, and the variety of schools, which sufficiently show that the way was not well prepared that l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXVI. Nor should we omit the sign afforded by the great dissension formerly prevalent among philosophers, and the variety of schools, which sufficiently show that the way was not well prepared that leads from the senses to the understanding, since the same groundwork of philosophy (namely, the natu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_94" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXVII. With regard to the supposition that there is a general unanimity as to the philosophy of Aristotle, because the other systems of the ancients ceased and became obsolete on its promulgation, an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXVII. With regard to the supposition that there is a general unanimity as to the philosophy of Aristotle, because the other systems of the ancients ceased and became obsolete on its promulgation, and nothing better has been since discovered; whence it appears that it is so well determined and foun", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_95" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXVIII. We now come to the causes of errors,[43] and of such perseverance in them for ages. These are sufficiently numerous and powerful to remove all wonder, that what we now offer should have so lo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXVIII. We now come to the causes of errors,[43] and of such perseverance in them for ages. These are sufficiently numerous and powerful to remove all wonder, that what we now offer should have so long been concealed from, and have escaped the notice of mankind, and to render it more worthy of asto", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_96" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXIX. A second cause offers itself, which is certainly of the greatest importance; namely, that in those very ages in which men’s wit and literature flourished considerably, or even moderately, but a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXIX. A second cause offers itself, which is certainly of the greatest importance; namely, that in those very ages in which men’s wit and literature flourished considerably, or even moderately, but a small part of their industry was bestowed on natural philosophy, the great mother of the sciences. ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_97" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXX. Add to this that natural philosophy, especially of late, has seldom gained exclusive possession of an individual free from all other pursuits, even among those who have applied themselves to it,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXX. Add to this that natural philosophy, especially of late, has seldom gained exclusive possession of an individual free from all other pursuits, even among those who have applied themselves to it, unless there may be an example or two of some monk studying in his cell, or some nobleman in his vi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_98" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Thus has this great mother of the sciences been degraded most unworthily to the situation of a handmaid, and made to wait upon medicine or mathematical operations, and to wash the immature minds of yo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Thus has this great mother of the sciences been degraded most unworthily to the situation of a handmaid, and made to wait upon medicine or mathematical operations, and to wash the immature minds of youth, and imbue them with a first dye, that they may afterward be more ready to receive and retain an", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_99" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXI. There is another powerful and great cause of the little advancement of the sciences, which is this; it is impossible to advance properly in the course when the goal is not properly fixed. But t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXI. There is another powerful and great cause of the little advancement of the sciences, which is this; it is impossible to advance properly in the course when the goal is not properly fixed. But the real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and r", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_100" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXII. But, in like manner, as the end and goal of science is ill defined, so, even were the case otherwise, men have chosen an erroneous and impassable direction. For it is sufficient to astonish an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXII. But, in like manner, as the end and goal of science is ill defined, so, even were the case otherwise, men have chosen an erroneous and impassable direction. For it is sufficient to astonish any reflecting mind, that nobody should have cared or wished to open and complete a way for the unders", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_101" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Another, perhaps, calls in logic to assist him in discovery, which bears only a nominal relation to his purpose. For the discoveries of logic are not discoveries of principles and leading axioms, but ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Another, perhaps, calls in logic to assist him in discovery, which bears only a nominal relation to his purpose. For the discoveries of logic are not discoveries of principles and leading axioms, but only of what appears to accord with them.[46] And when men become curious and importunate, and give ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_102" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There remains but mere experience, which, when it offers itself, is called chance; when it is sought after, experiment.[47] But this kind of experience is nothing but a loose fagot; and mere groping i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There remains but mere experience, which, when it offers itself, is called chance; when it is sought after, experiment.[47] But this kind of experience is nothing but a loose fagot; and mere groping in the dark, as men at night try all means of discovering the right road, while it would be better an", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_103" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let men, therefore, cease to wonder if the whole course of science be not run, when all have wandered from the path; quitting it entirely, and deserting experience, or involving themselves in its maze...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let men, therefore, cease to wonder if the whole course of science be not run, when all have wandered from the path; quitting it entirely, and deserting experience, or involving themselves in its mazes, and wandering about, while a regularly combined system would lead them in a sure track through it", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_104" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXIII. The evil, however, has been wonderfully increased by an opinion, or inveterate conceit, which is both vainglorious and prejudicial, namely, that the dignity of the human mind is lowered by lo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXIII. The evil, however, has been wonderfully increased by an opinion, or inveterate conceit, which is both vainglorious and prejudicial, namely, that the dignity of the human mind is lowered by long and frequent intercourse with experiments and particulars, which are the objects of sense, and co", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_105" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXIV. Again, the reverence for antiquity,[48] and the authority of men who have been esteemed great in philosophy, and general unanimity, have retarded men from advancing in science, and almost ench...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXIV. Again, the reverence for antiquity,[48] and the authority of men who have been esteemed great in philosophy, and general unanimity, have retarded men from advancing in science, and almost enchanted them.\nAs to unanimity, we have spoken of it above.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_106" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The opinion which men cherish of antiquity is altogether idle, and scarcely accords with the term. For the old age and increasing years of the world should in reality be considered as antiquity, and t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The opinion which men cherish of antiquity is altogether idle, and scarcely accords with the term. For the old age and increasing years of the world should in reality be considered as antiquity, and this is rather the character of our own times than of the less advanced age of the world in those of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_107" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We must also take into our consideration that many objects in nature fit to throw light upon philosophy have been exposed to our view, and discovered by means of long voyages and travels, in which our...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We must also take into our consideration that many objects in nature fit to throw light upon philosophy have been exposed to our view, and discovered by means of long voyages and travels, in which our times have abounded. It would, indeed, be dishonorable to mankind, if the regions of the material g", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_108" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to authority, it is the greatest weakness to attribute infinite credit to particular authors, and to refuse his own prerogative to time, the author of all authors, and, therefore, of all a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to authority, it is the greatest weakness to attribute infinite credit to particular authors, and to refuse his own prerogative to time, the author of all authors, and, therefore, of all authority. For truth is rightly named the daughter of time, not of authority. It is not wonderful, th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_109" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXV. Nor is it only the admiration of antiquity, authority, and unanimity, that has forced man’s industry to rest satisfied with present discoveries, but, also, the admiration of the effects already...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXV. Nor is it only the admiration of antiquity, authority, and unanimity, that has forced man’s industry to rest satisfied with present discoveries, but, also, the admiration of the effects already placed within his power. For whoever passes in review the variety of subjects, and the beautiful ap", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_110" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, if one consider the refinement of the liberal arts, or even that exhibited in the preparation of natural bodies in mechanical arts and the like, as the discovery of the heavenly motions in astr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, if one consider the refinement of the liberal arts, or even that exhibited in the preparation of natural bodies in mechanical arts and the like, as the discovery of the heavenly motions in astronomy, of harmony in music, of the letters of the alphabet[49] (still unadopted by the Chinese) in g", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_111" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if any one turn from the manufactories to libraries, and be inclined to admire the immense variety of books offered to our view, let him but examine and diligently inspect the matter and contents ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if any one turn from the manufactories to libraries, and be inclined to admire the immense variety of books offered to our view, let him but examine and diligently inspect the matter and contents of these books, and his astonishment will certainly change its object: for when he finds no end of r", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_112" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if any one should condescend to consider such sciences as are deemed rather curious than sound, and take a full view of the operations of the alchemists or magii, he will perhaps hesitate whether ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if any one should condescend to consider such sciences as are deemed rather curious than sound, and take a full view of the operations of the alchemists or magii, he will perhaps hesitate whether he ought rather to laugh or to weep. For the alchemist cherishes eternal hope, and when his labors s", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_113" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The followers of natural magic, who explain everything by sympathy and antipathy, have assigned false powers and marvellous operations to things by gratuitous and idle conjectures: and if they have ev...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The followers of natural magic, who explain everything by sympathy and antipathy, have assigned false powers and marvellous operations to things by gratuitous and idle conjectures: and if they have ever produced any effects, they are rather wonderful and novel than of any real benefit or utility.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_114" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In superstitious magic (if we say anything at all about it) we must chiefly observe, that there are only some peculiar and definite objects with which the curious and superstitious arts have, in every...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In superstitious magic (if we say anything at all about it) we must chiefly observe, that there are only some peculiar and definite objects with which the curious and superstitious arts have, in every nation and age, and even under every religion, been able to exercise and amuse themselves. Let us, ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_115" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXVI. The admiration of mankind with regard to the arts and sciences, which is of itself sufficiently simple and almost puerile, has been increased by the craft and artifices of those who have treat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXVI. The admiration of mankind with regard to the arts and sciences, which is of itself sufficiently simple and almost puerile, has been increased by the craft and artifices of those who have treated the sciences, and delivered them down to posterity. For they propose and produce them to our view", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_116" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The first and most ancient investigators of truth were wont, on the contrary, with more honesty and success, to throw all the knowledge they wished to gather from contemplation, and to lay up for use,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The first and most ancient investigators of truth were wont, on the contrary, with more honesty and success, to throw all the knowledge they wished to gather from contemplation, and to lay up for use, into aphorisms, or short scattered sentences unconnected by any method, and without pretending or p", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_117" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXVII. The ancient theories have received additional support and credit from the absurdity and levity of those who have promoted the new, especially in the active and practical part of natural philo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXVII. The ancient theories have received additional support and credit from the absurdity and levity of those who have promoted the new, especially in the active and practical part of natural philosophy.\nFor there have been many silly and fantastical fellows who, from credulity or imposture, have", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_118" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXVIII. Want of energy, and the littleness and futility of the tasks that human industry has undertaken, have produced much greater injury to the sciences: and yet (to make it still worse) that very...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXVIII. Want of energy, and the littleness and futility of the tasks that human industry has undertaken, have produced much greater injury to the sciences: and yet (to make it still worse) that very want of energy manifests itself in conjunction with arrogance and disdain.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_119" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For, in the first place, one excuse, now from its repetition become familiar, is to be observed in every art, namely, that its promoters convert the weakness of the art itself into a calumny upon natu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For, in the first place, one excuse, now from its repetition become familiar, is to be observed in every art, namely, that its promoters convert the weakness of the art itself into a calumny upon nature: and whatever it in their hands fails to effect, they pronounce to be physically impossible. But ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_120" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In general those very things which are considered as secret are manifest and common in other objects, but will never be clearly seen if the experiments and contemplation of man be directed to themselv...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In general those very things which are considered as secret are manifest and common in other objects, but will never be clearly seen if the experiments and contemplation of man be directed to themselves only. Yet it commonly happens, that if, in the mechanical arts, any one bring old discoveries to ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_121" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We cannot, therefore, wonder that no magnificent discoveries, worthy of mankind, have been brought to light, while men are satisfied and delighted with such scanty and puerile tasks, nay, even think t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We cannot, therefore, wonder that no magnificent discoveries, worthy of mankind, have been brought to light, while men are satisfied and delighted with such scanty and puerile tasks, nay, even think that they have pursued or attained some great object in their accomplishment.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_122" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LXXXIX. Nor should we neglect to observe that natural philosophy has, in every age, met with a troublesome and difficult opponent: I mean superstition, and a blind and immoderate zeal for religion. Fo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LXXXIX. Nor should we neglect to observe that natural philosophy has, in every age, met with a troublesome and difficult opponent: I mean superstition, and a blind and immoderate zeal for religion. For we see that, among the Greeks, those who first disclosed the natural causes of thunder and storms ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_123" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Even in the present state of things the condition of discussions on natural philosophy is rendered more difficult and dangerous by the summaries and methods of divines, who, after reducing divinity in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Even in the present state of things the condition of discussions on natural philosophy is rendered more difficult and dangerous by the summaries and methods of divines, who, after reducing divinity into such order as they could, and brought it into a scientific form, have proceeded to mingle an undu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_124" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The fictions of those who have not feared to deduce and confirm the truth of the Christian religion by the principles and authority of philosophers, tend to the same end, though in a different manner....", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The fictions of those who have not feared to deduce and confirm the truth of the Christian religion by the principles and authority of philosophers, tend to the same end, though in a different manner.[55] They celebrate the union of faith and the senses as though it were legitimate, with great pomp ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_125" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In short, you may find all access to any species of philosophy, however pure, intercepted by the ignorance of divines. Some in their simplicity are apprehensive that a too deep inquiry into nature may...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In short, you may find all access to any species of philosophy, however pure, intercepted by the ignorance of divines. Some in their simplicity are apprehensive that a too deep inquiry into nature may penetrate beyond the proper bounds of decorum, transferring and absurdly applying what is said of s", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_126" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XC. Again, in the habits and regulations of schools, universities, and the like assemblies, destined for the abode of learned men and the improvement of learning, everything is found to be opposed to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XC. Again, in the habits and regulations of schools, universities, and the like assemblies, destined for the abode of learned men and the improvement of learning, everything is found to be opposed to the progress of the sciences; for the lectures and exercises are so ordered, that anything out of th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_127" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCI. And even should the odium I have alluded to be avoided, yet it is sufficient to repress the increase of science that such attempts and industry pass unrewarded; for the cultivation of science and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCI. And even should the odium I have alluded to be avoided, yet it is sufficient to repress the increase of science that such attempts and industry pass unrewarded; for the cultivation of science and its reward belong not to the same individual. The advancement of science is the work of a powerful ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_128" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCII. But by far the greatest obstacle to the advancement of the sciences, and the undertaking of any new attempt or department, is to be found in men’s despair and the idea of impossibility; for men ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCII. But by far the greatest obstacle to the advancement of the sciences, and the undertaking of any new attempt or department, is to be found in men’s despair and the idea of impossibility; for men of a prudent and exact turn of thought are altogether diffident in matters of this nature, consideri", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_129" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "If, therefore, any one believe or promise greater things, they impute it to an uncurbed and immature mind, and imagine that such efforts begin pleasantly, then become laborious, and end in confusion.\n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: If, therefore, any one believe or promise greater things, they impute it to an uncurbed and immature mind, and imagine that such efforts begin pleasantly, then become laborious, and end in confusion.\nAnd since such thoughts easily enter the minds of men of dignity and excellent judgment, we must rea", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_130" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCIII. Let us begin from God, and show that our pursuit from its exceeding goodness clearly proceeds from him, the author of good and father of light. Now, in all divine works the smallest beginnings ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCIII. Let us begin from God, and show that our pursuit from its exceeding goodness clearly proceeds from him, the author of good and father of light. Now, in all divine works the smallest beginnings lead assuredly to some result, and the remark in spiritual matters that “the kingdom of God cometh w", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_131" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCIV. We will next give a most potent reason for hope deduced from the errors of the past, and the ways still unattempted; for well was an ill-governed state thus reproved, “That which is worst with r...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCIV. We will next give a most potent reason for hope deduced from the errors of the past, and the ways still unattempted; for well was an ill-governed state thus reproved, “That which is worst with regard to the past should appear most consolatory for the future; for if you had done all that your d", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_132" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCV. Those who have treated of the sciences have been either empirics or dogmatical.[57] The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs. The bee...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCV. Those who have treated of the sciences have been either empirics or dogmatical.[57] The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs. The bee, a mean between both, extracts matter from the flowers of the garden and the field, but works and f", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_133" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCVI. Natural philosophy is not yet to be found unadulterated, but is impure and corrupted--by logic in the school of Aristotle, by natural theology in that of Plato,[58] by mathematics in the second ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCVI. Natural philosophy is not yet to be found unadulterated, but is impure and corrupted--by logic in the school of Aristotle, by natural theology in that of Plato,[58] by mathematics in the second school of Plato (that of Proclus and others)[59] which ought rather to terminate natural philosophy ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_134" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCVII. No one has yet been found possessed of sufficient firmness and severity to resolve upon and undertake the task of entirely abolishing common theories and notions, and applying the mind afresh, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCVII. No one has yet been found possessed of sufficient firmness and severity to resolve upon and undertake the task of entirely abolishing common theories and notions, and applying the mind afresh, when thus cleared and levelled, to particular researches; hence our human reasoning is a mere farrag", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_135" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if a man of mature age, unprejudiced senses, and clear mind, would betake himself anew to experience and particulars, we might hope much more from such a one; in which respect we promise ourselves...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if a man of mature age, unprejudiced senses, and clear mind, would betake himself anew to experience and particulars, we might hope much more from such a one; in which respect we promise ourselves the fortune of Alexander the Great, and let none accuse us of vanity till they have heard the tale,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_136" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For Æschines spoke thus of Alexander and his exploits: “We live not the life of mortals, but are born at such a period that posterity will relate and declare our prodigies”; as if he considered the ex...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For Æschines spoke thus of Alexander and his exploits: “We live not the life of mortals, but are born at such a period that posterity will relate and declare our prodigies”; as if he considered the exploits of Alexander to be miraculous.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_137" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But in succeeding ages[60] Livy took a better view of the fact, and has made some such observation as this upon Alexander: “That he did no more than dare to despise insignificance.” So in our opinion ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But in succeeding ages[60] Livy took a better view of the fact, and has made some such observation as this upon Alexander: “That he did no more than dare to despise insignificance.” So in our opinion posterity will judge of us, that we have achieved no great matters, but only set less account upon w", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_138" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCVIII. The foundations of experience (our sole resource) have hitherto failed completely or have been very weak; nor has a store and collection of particular facts, capable of informing the mind or i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCVIII. The foundations of experience (our sole resource) have hitherto failed completely or have been very weak; nor has a store and collection of particular facts, capable of informing the mind or in any way satisfactory, been either sought after or amassed. On the contrary, learned, but idle and ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_139" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XCIX. Again, even in the abundance of mechanical experiments, there is a very great scarcity of those which best inform and assist the understanding. For the mechanic, little solicitous about the inve...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XCIX. Again, even in the abundance of mechanical experiments, there is a very great scarcity of those which best inform and assist the understanding. For the mechanic, little solicitous about the investigation of truth, neither directs his attention, nor applies his hand to anything that is not of s", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_140" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "C. We must not only search for, and procure a greater number of experiments, but also introduce a completely different method, order, and progress of continuing and promoting experience. For vague and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: C. We must not only search for, and procure a greater number of experiments, but also introduce a completely different method, order, and progress of continuing and promoting experience. For vague and arbitrary experience is (as we have observed), mere groping in the dark, and rather astonishes than", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_141" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CI. But after having collected and prepared an abundance and store of natural history, and of the experience required for the operations of the understanding or philosophy, still the understanding is ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CI. But after having collected and prepared an abundance and store of natural history, and of the experience required for the operations of the understanding or philosophy, still the understanding is as incapable of acting on such materials of itself, with the aid of memory alone, as any person woul", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_142" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CII. Besides this, there is such a multitude and host, as it were, of particular objects, and lying so widely dispersed, as to distract and confuse the understanding; and we can, therefore, hope for n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CII. Besides this, there is such a multitude and host, as it were, of particular objects, and lying so widely dispersed, as to distract and confuse the understanding; and we can, therefore, hope for no advantage from its skirmishing, and quick movements and incursions, unless we put its forces in du", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_143" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CIII. When we have thus properly and regularly placed before the eyes a collection of particulars, we must not immediately proceed to the investigation and discovery of new particulars or effects, or,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CIII. When we have thus properly and regularly placed before the eyes a collection of particulars, we must not immediately proceed to the investigation and discovery of new particulars or effects, or, at least, if we do so, must not rest satisfied therewith. For, though we do not deny that by transf", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_144" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CIV. Nor can we suffer the understanding to jump and fly from particulars to remote and most general axioms (such as are termed the principles of arts and things), and thus prove and make out their in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CIV. Nor can we suffer the understanding to jump and fly from particulars to remote and most general axioms (such as are termed the principles of arts and things), and thus prove and make out their intermediate axioms according to the supposed unshaken truth of the former. This, however, has always ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_145" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We must not then add wings, but rather lead and ballast to the understanding, to prevent its jumping or flying, which has not yet been done; but whenever this takes place, we may entertain greater hop...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We must not then add wings, but rather lead and ballast to the understanding, to prevent its jumping or flying, which has not yet been done; but whenever this takes place, we may entertain greater hopes of the sciences.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_146" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CV. In forming axioms, we must invent a different form of induction from that hitherto in use; not only for the proof and discovery of principles (as they are called), but also of minor, intermediate,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CV. In forming axioms, we must invent a different form of induction from that hitherto in use; not only for the proof and discovery of principles (as they are called), but also of minor, intermediate, and, in short, every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_147" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CVI. In forming our axioms from induction, we must examine and try whether the axiom we derive be only fitted and calculated for the particular instances from which it is deduced, or whether it be mor...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CVI. In forming our axioms from induction, we must examine and try whether the axiom we derive be only fitted and calculated for the particular instances from which it is deduced, or whether it be more extensive and general. If it be the latter, we must observe, whether it confirm its own extent and", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_148" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CVII. Here, too, we may again repeat what we have said above, concerning the extending of natural philosophy and reducing particular sciences to that one, so as to prevent any schism or dismembering o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CVII. Here, too, we may again repeat what we have said above, concerning the extending of natural philosophy and reducing particular sciences to that one, so as to prevent any schism or dismembering of the sciences; without which we cannot hope to advance.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_149" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CVIII. Such are the observations we would make in order to remove despair and excite hope, by bidding farewell to the errors of past ages, or by their correction. Let us examine whether there be other...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CVIII. Such are the observations we would make in order to remove despair and excite hope, by bidding farewell to the errors of past ages, or by their correction. Let us examine whether there be other grounds for hope. And, first, if many useful discoveries have occurred to mankind by chance or oppo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_150" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CIX. We may also derive some reason for hope from the circumstance of several actual inventions being of such a nature, that scarcely any one could have formed a conjecture about them previously to th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CIX. We may also derive some reason for hope from the circumstance of several actual inventions being of such a nature, that scarcely any one could have formed a conjecture about them previously to their discovery, but would rather have ridiculed them as impossible. For men are wont to guess about n", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_151" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "If, for instance, before the discovery of cannon, one had described its effects in the following manner: There is a new invention by which walls and the greatest bulwarks can be shaken and overthrown ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: If, for instance, before the discovery of cannon, one had described its effects in the following manner: There is a new invention by which walls and the greatest bulwarks can be shaken and overthrown from a considerable distance; men would have begun to contrive various means of multiplying the forc", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_152" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So, if before the discovery of silk thread, any one had observed, that a species of thread had been discovered, fit for dresses and furniture, far surpassing the thread of worsted or flax in fineness,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So, if before the discovery of silk thread, any one had observed, that a species of thread had been discovered, fit for dresses and furniture, far surpassing the thread of worsted or flax in fineness, and at the same time in tenacity, beauty, and softness; men would have begun to imagine something a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_153" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So again, if before the discovery of the compass, any one had said, that an instrument had been invented, by which the quarters and points of the heavens could be exactly taken and distinguished, men ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So again, if before the discovery of the compass, any one had said, that an instrument had been invented, by which the quarters and points of the heavens could be exactly taken and distinguished, men would have entered into disquisitions on the refinement of astronomical instruments, and the like, f", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_154" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We may, therefore, well hope[62] that many excellent and useful matters are yet treasured up in the bosom of nature, bearing no relation or analogy to our actual discoveries, but out of the common tra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We may, therefore, well hope[62] that many excellent and useful matters are yet treasured up in the bosom of nature, bearing no relation or analogy to our actual discoveries, but out of the common track of our imagination, and still undiscovered, and which will doubtless be brought to light in the c", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_155" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CX. There are, moreover, some inventions which render it probable that men may pass and hurry over the most noble discoveries which lie immediately before them. For however the discovery of gunpowder,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CX. There are, moreover, some inventions which render it probable that men may pass and hurry over the most noble discoveries which lie immediately before them. For however the discovery of gunpowder, silk, the compass, sugar, paper, or the like, may appear to depend on peculiar properties of things", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_156" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The human mind is often so awkward and ill-regulated in the career of invention that it is at first diffident, and then despises itself. For it appears at first incredible that any such discovery shou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The human mind is often so awkward and ill-regulated in the career of invention that it is at first diffident, and then despises itself. For it appears at first incredible that any such discovery should be made, and when it has been made, it appears incredible that it should so long have escaped men", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_157" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXI. Nor should we omit another ground of hope. Let men only consider (if they will) their infinite expenditure of talent, time, and fortune, in matters and studies of far inferior importance and valu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXI. Nor should we omit another ground of hope. Let men only consider (if they will) their infinite expenditure of talent, time, and fortune, in matters and studies of far inferior importance and value; a small portion of which applied to sound and solid learning would be sufficient to overcome ever", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_158" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXII. In the meantime let no one be alarmed at the multitude of particulars, but rather inclined to hope on that very account. For the particular phenomena of the arts and nature are in reality but as...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXII. In the meantime let no one be alarmed at the multitude of particulars, but rather inclined to hope on that very account. For the particular phenomena of the arts and nature are in reality but as a handful, when compared with the fictions of the imagination removed and separated from the eviden", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_159" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXIII. We think some ground of hope is afforded by our own example, which is not mentioned for the sake of boasting, but as a useful remark. Let those who distrust their own powers observe myself, one...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXIII. We think some ground of hope is afforded by our own example, which is not mentioned for the sake of boasting, but as a useful remark. Let those who distrust their own powers observe myself, one who have among my contemporaries been the most engaged in public business, who am not very strong i", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_160" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXIV. Lastly, though a much more faint and uncertain breeze of hope were to spring up from our new continent, yet we consider it necessary to make the experiment, if we would not show a dastard spirit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXIV. Lastly, though a much more faint and uncertain breeze of hope were to spring up from our new continent, yet we consider it necessary to make the experiment, if we would not show a dastard spirit. For the risk attending want of success is not to be compared with that of neglecting the attempt; ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_161" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXV. Such are the grounds for banishing despair, hitherto one of the most powerful causes of the delay and restraint to which the sciences have been subjected; in treating of which we have at the same...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXV. Such are the grounds for banishing despair, hitherto one of the most powerful causes of the delay and restraint to which the sciences have been subjected; in treating of which we have at the same time discussed the signs and causes of the errors, idleness, and ignorance that have prevailed; see", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_162" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, too, we should close the demolishing branch of our Instauration, which is comprised in three confutations: 1, the confutation of natural human reason left to itself; 2, the confutation of demons...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, too, we should close the demolishing branch of our Instauration, which is comprised in three confutations: 1, the confutation of natural human reason left to itself; 2, the confutation of demonstration; 3, the confutation of theories, or received systems of philosophy and doctrines. Our confut", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_163" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is time for us therefore to come to the art itself, and the rule for the interpretation of nature: there is, however, still something which must not be passed over. For the intent of this first boo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is time for us therefore to come to the art itself, and the rule for the interpretation of nature: there is, however, still something which must not be passed over. For the intent of this first book of aphorisms being to prepare the mind for understanding, as well as admitting, what follows, we m", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_164" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXVI. First, then, we must desire men not to suppose that we are ambitious of founding any philosophical sect, like the ancient Greeks, or some moderns, as Telesius, Patricius, and Severinus.[63] For ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXVI. First, then, we must desire men not to suppose that we are ambitious of founding any philosophical sect, like the ancient Greeks, or some moderns, as Telesius, Patricius, and Severinus.[63] For neither is this our intention, nor do we think that peculiar abstract opinions on nature and the pri", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_165" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We bestow not our labor on such theoretical and, at the same time, useless topics. On the contrary, our determination is that of trying, whether we can lay a firmer foundation, and extend to a greater...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We bestow not our labor on such theoretical and, at the same time, useless topics. On the contrary, our determination is that of trying, whether we can lay a firmer foundation, and extend to a greater distance the boundaries of human power and dignity. And although here and there, upon some particul", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_166" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXVII. And, as we pretend not to found a sect, so do we neither offer nor promise particular effects; which may occasion some to object to us, that since we so often speak of effects, and consider eve...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXVII. And, as we pretend not to found a sect, so do we neither offer nor promise particular effects; which may occasion some to object to us, that since we so often speak of effects, and consider everything in its relation to that end, we ought also to give some earnest of producing them. Our cours", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_167" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And although any one of moderate intelligence and ability will observe the indications and sketches of many noble effects in our tables of inventions (which form the fourth part of the Instauration), ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And although any one of moderate intelligence and ability will observe the indications and sketches of many noble effects in our tables of inventions (which form the fourth part of the Instauration), and also in the examples of particular instances cited in the second part, as well as in our observa", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_168" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "If, therefore, there be any one who is more disposed and prepared for mechanical art, and ingenious in discovering effects, than in the mere management of experiment, we allow him to employ his indust...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: If, therefore, there be any one who is more disposed and prepared for mechanical art, and ingenious in discovering effects, than in the mere management of experiment, we allow him to employ his industry in gathering many of the fruits of our history and tables in this way, and applying them to effec", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_169" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXVIII. There will be some, without doubt, who, on a perusal of our history and tables of invention, will meet with some uncertainty, or perhaps fallacy, in the experiments themselves, and will thence...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXVIII. There will be some, without doubt, who, on a perusal of our history and tables of invention, will meet with some uncertainty, or perhaps fallacy, in the experiments themselves, and will thence perhaps imagine that our discoveries are built on false foundations and principles. There is, howev", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_170" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXIX. Again, our history and experiments will contain much that is light and common, mean and illiberal, too refined and merely speculative, and, as it were, of no use, and this perhaps may divert and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXIX. Again, our history and experiments will contain much that is light and common, mean and illiberal, too refined and merely speculative, and, as it were, of no use, and this perhaps may divert and alienate the attention of mankind.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_171" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to what is common; let men reflect, that they have hitherto been used to do nothing but refer and adapt the causes of things of rare occurrence to those of things which more frequently hap...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to what is common; let men reflect, that they have hitherto been used to do nothing but refer and adapt the causes of things of rare occurrence to those of things which more frequently happen, without any investigation of the causes of the latter, taking them for granted and admitted.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_172" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Hence, they do not inquire into the causes of gravity, the rotation of the heavenly bodies, heat, cold, light, hardness, softness, rarity, density, liquidity, solidity, animation, inanimation, similit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Hence, they do not inquire into the causes of gravity, the rotation of the heavenly bodies, heat, cold, light, hardness, softness, rarity, density, liquidity, solidity, animation, inanimation, similitude, difference, organic formation, but taking them to be self-evident, manifest, and admitted, they", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_173" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But we (who know that no judgment can be formed of that which is rare or remarkable, and much less anything new brought to light, without a previous regular examination and discovery of the causes of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But we (who know that no judgment can be formed of that which is rare or remarkable, and much less anything new brought to light, without a previous regular examination and discovery of the causes of that which is common, and the causes again of those causes) are necessarily compelled to admit the m", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_174" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXX. With regard to the meanness, or even the filthiness of particulars, for which (as Pliny observes), an apology is requisite, such subjects are no less worthy of admission into natural history than...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXX. With regard to the meanness, or even the filthiness of particulars, for which (as Pliny observes), an apology is requisite, such subjects are no less worthy of admission into natural history than the most magnificent and costly; nor do they at all pollute natural history, for the sun enters ali", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_175" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXI. The next point requires a more accurate consideration, namely, that many parts of our history will appear to the vulgar, or even any mind accustomed to the present state of things, fantastically...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXI. The next point requires a more accurate consideration, namely, that many parts of our history will appear to the vulgar, or even any mind accustomed to the present state of things, fantastically and uselessly refined. Hence, we have in regard to this matter said from the first, and must again ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_176" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "If any one, then, imagine such matters to be of no use, he might equally suppose light to be of no use, because it is neither solid nor material. For, in fact, the knowledge of simple natures, when su...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: If any one, then, imagine such matters to be of no use, he might equally suppose light to be of no use, because it is neither solid nor material. For, in fact, the knowledge of simple natures, when sufficiently investigated and defined, resembles light, which, though of no great use in itself, affor", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_177" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if speculative subtilties give offence, what must we say of the scholastic philosophers who indulged in them to such excess? And those subtilties were wasted on words, or, at least, common notions...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if speculative subtilties give offence, what must we say of the scholastic philosophers who indulged in them to such excess? And those subtilties were wasted on words, or, at least, common notions (which is the same thing), not on things or nature, and alike unproductive of benefit in their orig", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_178" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In short, we may reply decisively to those who despise any part of natural history as being vulgar, mean, or subtile, and useless in its origin, in the words of a poor woman to a haughty prince,[65] w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In short, we may reply decisively to those who despise any part of natural history as being vulgar, mean, or subtile, and useless in its origin, in the words of a poor woman to a haughty prince,[65] who had rejected her petition as unworthy, and beneath the dignity of his majesty: “Then cease to rei", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_179" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXII. Again, it may be objected to us as being singular and harsh, that we should with one stroke and assault, as it were, banish all authorities and sciences, and that too by our own efforts, withou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXII. Again, it may be objected to us as being singular and harsh, that we should with one stroke and assault, as it were, banish all authorities and sciences, and that too by our own efforts, without requiring the assistance and support of any of the ancients.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_180" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Now we are aware, that had we been ready to act otherwise than sincerely, it was not difficult to refer our present method to remote ages, prior to those of the Greeks (since the sciences in all proba...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Now we are aware, that had we been ready to act otherwise than sincerely, it was not difficult to refer our present method to remote ages, prior to those of the Greeks (since the sciences in all probability flourished more in their natural state, though silently, than when they were paraded with the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_181" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to the universal censure we have bestowed, it is quite clear, to any one who properly considers the matter, that it is both more probable and more modest than any partial one could have be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to the universal censure we have bestowed, it is quite clear, to any one who properly considers the matter, that it is both more probable and more modest than any partial one could have been. For if the errors had not been rooted in the primary notions, some well conducted discoveries mu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_182" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to our presumption, we allow that if we were to assume a power of drawing a more perfect straight line or circle than any one else, by superior steadiness of hand or acuteness of eye, it w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to our presumption, we allow that if we were to assume a power of drawing a more perfect straight line or circle than any one else, by superior steadiness of hand or acuteness of eye, it would lead to a comparison of talent; but if one merely assert that he can draw a more perfect line o", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_183" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXIII. We may, therefore, apply to ourselves the joke of him who said, that water and wine drinkers could not think alike,[67] especially as it hits the matter so well. For others, both ancients and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXIII. We may, therefore, apply to ourselves the joke of him who said, that water and wine drinkers could not think alike,[67] especially as it hits the matter so well. For others, both ancients and moderns, have in the sciences drank a crude liquor like water, either flowing of itself from the und", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_184" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXIV. Another objection will without doubt be made, namely, that we have not ourselves established a correct, or the best goal or aim of the sciences (the very defect we blame in others). For they wi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXIV. Another objection will without doubt be made, namely, that we have not ourselves established a correct, or the best goal or aim of the sciences (the very defect we blame in others). For they will say that the contemplation of truth is more dignified and exalted than any utility or extent of e", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_185" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXV. Others may object that we are only doing that which has already been done, and that the ancients followed the same course as ourselves.\nThey may imagine, therefore, that, after all this stir and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXV. Others may object that we are only doing that which has already been done, and that the ancients followed the same course as ourselves.\nThey may imagine, therefore, that, after all this stir and exertion, we shall at last arrive at some of those systems that prevailed among the ancients: for t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_186" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXVI. Another objection will be made against us, that we prohibit decisions and the laying down of certain principles, till we arrive regularly at generalities by the intermediate steps, and thus kee...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXVI. Another objection will be made against us, that we prohibit decisions and the laying down of certain principles, till we arrive regularly at generalities by the intermediate steps, and thus keep the judgment in suspense and lead to uncertainty. But our object is not uncertainty but fitting ce", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_187" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXVII. Again, some may raise this question rather than objection, whether we talk of perfecting natural philosophy alone according to our method, or the other sciences also, such as logic, ethics, po...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXVII. Again, some may raise this question rather than objection, whether we talk of perfecting natural philosophy alone according to our method, or the other sciences also, such as logic, ethics, politics. We certainly intend to comprehend them all. And as common logic, which regulates matters by ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_188" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXVIII. Let none even doubt whether we are anxious to destroy and demolish the philosophy, arts, and sciences, which are now in use.\nOn the contrary, we readily cherish their practice, cultivation, a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXVIII. Let none even doubt whether we are anxious to destroy and demolish the philosophy, arts, and sciences, which are now in use.\nOn the contrary, we readily cherish their practice, cultivation, and honor; for we by no means interfere to prevent the prevalent system from encouraging discussion, ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_189" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXIX. It remains for us to say a few words on the excellence of our proposed end. If we had done so before, we might have appeared merely to express our wishes, but now that we have excited hope and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXIX. It remains for us to say a few words on the excellence of our proposed end. If we had done so before, we might have appeared merely to express our wishes, but now that we have excited hope and removed prejudices, it will perhaps have greater weight. Had we performed and completely accomplishe", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_190" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "First, then, the introduction of great inventions appears one of the most distinguished of human actions, and the ancients so considered it; for they assigned divine honors to the authors of invention...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: First, then, the introduction of great inventions appears one of the most distinguished of human actions, and the ancients so considered it; for they assigned divine honors to the authors of inventions, but only heroic honors to those who displayed civil merit (such as the founders of cities and emp", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_191" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And it is worthy of remark in Solomon, that while he flourished in the possession of his empire, in wealth, in the magnificence of his works, in his court, his household, his fleet, the splendor of hi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And it is worthy of remark in Solomon, that while he flourished in the possession of his empire, in wealth, in the magnificence of his works, in his court, his household, his fleet, the splendor of his name, and the most unbounded admiration of mankind, he still placed his glory in none of these, bu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_194" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let any one but consider the immense difference between men’s lives in the most polished countries of Europe, and in any wild and barbarous region of the new Indies, he will think it so great, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let any one but consider the immense difference between men’s lives in the most polished countries of Europe, and in any wild and barbarous region of the new Indies, he will think it so great, that man may be said to be a god unto man, not only on account of mutual aid and benefits, but from ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_195" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, we should notice the force, effect, and consequences of inventions, which are nowhere more conspicuous than in those three which were unknown to the ancients; namely, printing, gunpowder, and t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, we should notice the force, effect, and consequences of inventions, which are nowhere more conspicuous than in those three which were unknown to the ancients; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world: first in liter", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_196" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It will, perhaps, be as well to distinguish three species and degrees of ambition. First, that of men who are anxious to enlarge their own power in their country, which is a vulgar and degenerate kind...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It will, perhaps, be as well to distinguish three species and degrees of ambition. First, that of men who are anxious to enlarge their own power in their country, which is a vulgar and degenerate kind; next, that of men who strive to enlarge the power and empire of their country over mankind, which ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_197" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Besides this, if the benefit of any particular invention has had such an effect as to induce men to consider him greater than a man, who has thus obliged the whole race, how much more exalted will tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Besides this, if the benefit of any particular invention has had such an effect as to induce men to consider him greater than a man, who has thus obliged the whole race, how much more exalted will that discovery be, which leads to the easy discovery of everything else! Yet (to speak the truth) in th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_198" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, let none be alarmed at the objection of the arts and sciences becoming depraved to malevolent or luxurious purposes and the like, for the same can be said of every worldly good; talent, courag...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, let none be alarmed at the objection of the arts and sciences becoming depraved to malevolent or luxurious purposes and the like, for the same can be said of every worldly good; talent, courage, strength, beauty, riches, light itself, and the rest. Only let mankind regain their rights over n", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_199" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "CXXX. But it is time for us to lay down the art of interpreting nature, to which we attribute no absolute necessity (as if nothing could be done without it) nor perfection, although we think that our ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: CXXX. But it is time for us to lay down the art of interpreting nature, to which we attribute no absolute necessity (as if nothing could be done without it) nor perfection, although we think that our precepts are most useful and correct. For we are of opinion, that if men had at their command a prop", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_200" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Yet do we not affirm that no addition can be made to them; on the contrary, considering the mind in its connection with things, and not merely relatively to its own powers, we ought to be persuaded th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Yet do we not affirm that no addition can be made to them; on the contrary, considering the mind in its connection with things, and not merely relatively to its own powers, we ought to be persuaded that the art of invention can be made to grow with the inventions themselves.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_201" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I. To generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures, upon a given body, is the labor and aim of human power: while to discover the form or true difference of a given nature, or the nature[71] t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I. To generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures, upon a given body, is the labor and aim of human power: while to discover the form or true difference of a given nature, or the nature[71] to which such nature is owing, or source from which it emanates (for these terms approach nearest to ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_202" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "II. The unhappy state of man’s actual knowledge is manifested even by the common assertions of the vulgar. It is rightly laid down that true knowledge is that which is deduced from causes. The divisio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: II. The unhappy state of man’s actual knowledge is manifested even by the common assertions of the vulgar. It is rightly laid down that true knowledge is that which is deduced from causes. The division of four causes also is not amiss: matter, form, the efficient, and end or final cause.[72] Of thes", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_203" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "III. He who has learned the cause of a particular nature (such as whiteness or heat), in particular subjects only, has acquired but an imperfect knowledge: as he who can induce a certain effect upon p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: III. He who has learned the cause of a particular nature (such as whiteness or heat), in particular subjects only, has acquired but an imperfect knowledge: as he who can induce a certain effect upon particular substances only, among those which are susceptible of it, has acquired but an imperfect po", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_204" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IV. Although there is a most intimate connection, and almost an identity between the ways of human power and human knowledge, yet, on account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling upon ab...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IV. Although there is a most intimate connection, and almost an identity between the ways of human power and human knowledge, yet, on account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling upon abstractions, it is by far the safest method to commence and build up the sciences from those foundati", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_205" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance, if a person should wish to superinduce the yellow color of gold upon silver, or an additional weight (observing always the laws of matter) or transparency on an opaque stone, or tenacity...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance, if a person should wish to superinduce the yellow color of gold upon silver, or an additional weight (observing always the laws of matter) or transparency on an opaque stone, or tenacity in glass, or vegetation on a substance which is not vegetable, we must (I say) consider what specie", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_206" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We will lay this down, therefore, as the genuine and perfect rule of practice, that it should be certain, free and preparatory, or having relation to practice. And this is the same thing as the discov...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We will lay this down, therefore, as the genuine and perfect rule of practice, that it should be certain, free and preparatory, or having relation to practice. And this is the same thing as the discovery of a true form; for the form of any nature is such, that when it is assigned the particular natu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_207" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "V. But the rule or axiom for the transformation of bodies is of two kinds. The first regards the body as an aggregate or combination of simple natures. Thus, in gold are united the following circumsta...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: V. But the rule or axiom for the transformation of bodies is of two kinds. The first regards the body as an aggregate or combination of simple natures. Thus, in gold are united the following circumstances: it is yellow, heavy, of a certain weight, malleable and ductile to a certain extent; it is not", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_208" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The second kind of axiom (which depends on the discovery of the latent process) does not proceed by simple natures, but by concrete bodies, as they are found in nature and in its usual course. For ins...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The second kind of axiom (which depends on the discovery of the latent process) does not proceed by simple natures, but by concrete bodies, as they are found in nature and in its usual course. For instance, suppose the inquiry to be, from what beginnings, in what manner, and by what process gold or ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_209" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor is this species of inquiry confined to the mere generation of bodies, but it is applicable to other changes and labors of nature.\nFor instance, where an inquiry is made into the whole series and c...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor is this species of inquiry confined to the mere generation of bodies, but it is applicable to other changes and labors of nature.\nFor instance, where an inquiry is made into the whole series and continued operation of the nutritive process, from the first reception of the food to its complete as", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_210" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In like manner the operative branch, which answers to this contemplative branch, extends and advances its operation from that which is usually observed in nature, to other subjects immediately connect...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In like manner the operative branch, which answers to this contemplative branch, extends and advances its operation from that which is usually observed in nature, to other subjects immediately connected with it, or not very remote from such immediate connection.\nBut the higher and radical operations", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_211" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VI. But the latent process of which we speak, is far from being obvious to men’s minds, beset as they now are. For we mean not the measures, symptoms, or degrees of any process which can be exhibited ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VI. But the latent process of which we speak, is far from being obvious to men’s minds, beset as they now are. For we mean not the measures, symptoms, or degrees of any process which can be exhibited in the bodies themselves, but simply a continued process, which, for the most part, escapes the obse", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_212" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance, in all generations and transformations of bodies, we must inquire, what is in the act of being lost and escaping, what remains, what is being added, what is being diluted, what is being ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance, in all generations and transformations of bodies, we must inquire, what is in the act of being lost and escaping, what remains, what is being added, what is being diluted, what is being contracted, what is being united, what is being separated, what is continuous, what is broken off, w", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_213" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor are these inquiries again to be made in the mere generation and transformation of bodies only, but in all other alterations and fluctuations we must in like manner inquire; what precedes, what suc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor are these inquiries again to be made in the mere generation and transformation of bodies only, but in all other alterations and fluctuations we must in like manner inquire; what precedes, what succeeds, what is quick, what is slow, what produces and what governs motion, and the like. All which m", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_214" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VII. In like manner, the investigation and discovery of the latent conformation in bodies is no less new, than the discovery of the latent process and form. For we as yet are doubtless only admitted t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VII. In like manner, the investigation and discovery of the latent conformation in bodies is no less new, than the discovery of the latent process and form. For we as yet are doubtless only admitted to the antechamber of nature, and do not prepare an entrance into her presence-room. But nobody can e", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_215" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Labor is well and usefully bestowed upon the anatomy of organized bodies, such as those of men and animals, which appears to be a subtile matter, and a useful examination of nature. The species of ana...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Labor is well and usefully bestowed upon the anatomy of organized bodies, such as those of men and animals, which appears to be a subtile matter, and a useful examination of nature. The species of anatomy, however, is that of first sight, open to the senses, and takes place only in organized bodies.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_216" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A separation and solution of bodies, therefore, is to be effected, not by fire indeed, but rather by reasoning and true induction, with the assistance of experiment, and by a comparison with other bod...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A separation and solution of bodies, therefore, is to be effected, not by fire indeed, but rather by reasoning and true induction, with the assistance of experiment, and by a comparison with other bodies, and a reduction to those simple natures and their forms which meet, and are combined in the com", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_217" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance, we must examine what spirit is in every body,[79] what tangible essence; whether that spirit is copious and exuberant, or meagre and scarce, fine or coarse, aëriform or igniform, active ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance, we must examine what spirit is in every body,[79] what tangible essence; whether that spirit is copious and exuberant, or meagre and scarce, fine or coarse, aëriform or igniform, active or sluggish, weak or robust, progressive or retrograde, abrupt or continuous, agreeing with external", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_218" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "VIII. This method will not bring us to atoms,[80] which takes for granted the vacuum, and immutability of matter (neither of which hypotheses is correct), but to the real particles such as we discover...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: VIII. This method will not bring us to atoms,[80] which takes for granted the vacuum, and immutability of matter (neither of which hypotheses is correct), but to the real particles such as we discover them to be. Nor is there any ground for alarm at this refinement as if it were inexplicable, for, o", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_219" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IX.[81] From the two kinds of axioms above specified, arise the two divisions of philosophy and the sciences, and we will use the commonly adopted terms which approach the nearest to our meaning, in o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IX.[81] From the two kinds of axioms above specified, arise the two divisions of philosophy and the sciences, and we will use the commonly adopted terms which approach the nearest to our meaning, in our own sense. Let the investigation of forms, which (in reasoning at least, and after their own laws", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_220" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "X. The object of our philosophy being thus laid down, we proceed to precepts, in the most clear and regular order. The signs for the interpretation of nature comprehend two divisions; the first regard...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: X. The object of our philosophy being thus laid down, we proceed to precepts, in the most clear and regular order. The signs for the interpretation of nature comprehend two divisions; the first regards the eliciting or creating of axioms from experiment, the second the deducing or deriving of new ex", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_221" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For we must first prepare as a foundation for the whole, a complete and accurate natural and experimental history. We must not imagine or invent, but discover the acts and properties of nature.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For we must first prepare as a foundation for the whole, a complete and accurate natural and experimental history. We must not imagine or invent, but discover the acts and properties of nature.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_222" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But natural and experimental history is so varied and diffuse, that it confounds and distracts the understanding unless it be fixed and exhibited in due order. We must, therefore, form tables and co-o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But natural and experimental history is so varied and diffuse, that it confounds and distracts the understanding unless it be fixed and exhibited in due order. We must, therefore, form tables and co-ordinations of instances, upon such a plan, and in such order that the understanding may be enabled t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_223" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Even when this is done, the understanding, left to itself and to its own operation, is incompetent and unfit to construct its axioms without direction and support. Our third ministration, therefore, m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Even when this is done, the understanding, left to itself and to its own operation, is incompetent and unfit to construct its axioms without direction and support. Our third ministration, therefore, must be true and legitimate induction, the very key of interpretation. We must begin, however, at the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_224" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XI. The investigation of forms proceeds thus: a nature being given, we must first present to the understanding all the known instances which agree in the same nature, although the subject matter be co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XI. The investigation of forms proceeds thus: a nature being given, we must first present to the understanding all the known instances which agree in the same nature, although the subject matter be considerably diversified. And this collection must be made as a mere history, and without any prematur", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_225" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "10. Warm vapors and smoke; and the air itself, which admits a most powerful and violent heat if confined, as in reverberating furnaces.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 10. Warm vapors and smoke; and the air itself, which admits a most powerful and violent heat if confined, as in reverberating furnaces.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_227" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "11. Damp hot weather, arising from the constitution of the air, without any reference to the time of the year.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 11. Damp hot weather, arising from the constitution of the air, without any reference to the time of the year.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_228" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "14. All bodies, both solid and liquid, dense and rare (as the air itself), placed near fire for any time.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 14. All bodies, both solid and liquid, dense and rare (as the air itself), placed near fire for any time.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_230" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "16. All bodies rubbed violently, as stone, wood, cloth, etc., so that rudders, and axles of wheels, sometimes catch fire, and the West Indians obtain fire by attrition.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 16. All bodies rubbed violently, as stone, wood, cloth, etc., so that rudders, and axles of wheels, sometimes catch fire, and the West Indians obtain fire by attrition.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_231" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "17. Green and moist vegetable matter confined and rubbed together, as roses, peas in baskets; so hay, if it be damp when stacked, often catches fire.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 17. Green and moist vegetable matter confined and rubbed together, as roses, peas in baskets; so hay, if it be damp when stacked, often catches fire.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_232" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "19. Iron, when first dissolved by acids in a glass, and without any application to fire; the same of tin, but not so intensely.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 19. Iron, when first dissolved by acids in a glass, and without any application to fire; the same of tin, but not so intensely.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_233" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "20. Animals, particularly internally; although the heat is not perceivable by the touch in insects, on account of their small size.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 20. Animals, particularly internally; although the heat is not perceivable by the touch in insects, on account of their small size.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_234" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "24. Strong and well rectified spirits of wine exhibit the same effects; so that white of eggs when thrown into it grows hard and white, almost in the same manner as when boiled, and bread becomes burn...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 24. Strong and well rectified spirits of wine exhibit the same effects; so that white of eggs when thrown into it grows hard and white, almost in the same manner as when boiled, and bread becomes burned and brown as if toasted.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_235" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "25. Aromatic substances and warm plants, as the dracunculus [arum], old nasturtium, etc., which, though they be not warm to the touch (whether whole or pulverized), yet are discovered by the tongue an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 25. Aromatic substances and warm plants, as the dracunculus [arum], old nasturtium, etc., which, though they be not warm to the touch (whether whole or pulverized), yet are discovered by the tongue and palate to be warm and almost burning when slightly masticated.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_236" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "26. Strong vinegar and all acids, on any part of the body not clothed with the epidermis, as the eye, tongue, or any wounded part, or where the skin is removed, excite a pain differing but little from...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 26. Strong vinegar and all acids, on any part of the body not clothed with the epidermis, as the eye, tongue, or any wounded part, or where the skin is removed, excite a pain differing but little from that produced by heat.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_237" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XII. We must next present to the understanding instances which do not admit of the given nature, for form (as we have observed) ought no less to be absent where the given nature is absent, than to be ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XII. We must next present to the understanding instances which do not admit of the given nature, for form (as we have observed) ought no less to be absent where the given nature is absent, than to be present where it is present. If, however, we were to examine every instance, our labor would be infi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_238" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Negatives, therefore, must be classed under the affirmatives, and the want of the given nature must be inquired into more particularly in objects which have a very close connection with those others i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Negatives, therefore, must be classed under the affirmatives, and the want of the given nature must be inquired into more particularly in objects which have a very close connection with those others in which it is present and manifest. And this we are wont to term a table of deviation or of absence ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_239" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The rays of the moon, stars, and comets, are not found to be warm to the touch, nay, the severest cold has been observed to take place at the full of the moon. Yet the larger fixed stars are supposed ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The rays of the moon, stars, and comets, are not found to be warm to the touch, nay, the severest cold has been observed to take place at the full of the moon. Yet the larger fixed stars are supposed to increase and render more intense the heat of the sun, as he approaches them, when the sun is in t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_240" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The rays of the sun in what is called the middle region of the air give no heat, to account for which the commonly assigned reason is satisfactory; namely, that that region is neither sufficiently nea...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The rays of the sun in what is called the middle region of the air give no heat, to account for which the commonly assigned reason is satisfactory; namely, that that region is neither sufficiently near to the body of the sun whence the rays emanate, nor to the earth whence they are reflected. And th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_241" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The reflection of the solar rays in the polar regions is found to be weak and inefficient in producing heat, so that the Dutch, who wintered in Nova Zembla, and expected that their vessel would be fre...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The reflection of the solar rays in the polar regions is found to be weak and inefficient in producing heat, so that the Dutch, who wintered in Nova Zembla, and expected that their vessel would be freed about the beginning of July from the obstruction of the mass of ice which had blocked it up, were", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_242" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the following experiment be made. Take a lens the reverse of a burning-glass, and place it between the hand and the solar rays, and observe whether it diminish the heat of the sun as a burning-gla...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the following experiment be made. Take a lens the reverse of a burning-glass, and place it between the hand and the solar rays, and observe whether it diminish the heat of the sun as a burning-glass increases it. For it is clear, with regard to the visual rays, that in proportion as the lens is ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_243" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the experiment be well tried, whether the lunar rays can be received and collected by the strongest and best burning-glasses, so as to produce even the least degree of heat.[86] But if that degree...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the experiment be well tried, whether the lunar rays can be received and collected by the strongest and best burning-glasses, so as to produce even the least degree of heat.[86] But if that degree be, perhaps, so subtile and weak, as not to be perceived or ascertained by the touch, we must have ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_244" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the burning-glass be tried on warm objects which emit no luminous rays, as heated but not ignited iron or stone, or hot water, or the like; and observe whether the heat become increased and conden...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the burning-glass be tried on warm objects which emit no luminous rays, as heated but not ignited iron or stone, or hot water, or the like; and observe whether the heat become increased and condensed, as happens with the solar rays.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_245" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The effect of comets (if we can reckon them among meteors[88]) in augmenting the heat of the season is not found to be constant or clear, although droughts have generally been observed to follow them....", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The effect of comets (if we can reckon them among meteors[88]) in augmenting the heat of the season is not found to be constant or clear, although droughts have generally been observed to follow them.\nHowever, luminous lines, and pillars, and openings, and the like, appear more often in winter than ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_246" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Eructations and eruptions of flame are to be found in cold climates as well as in hot, as in Iceland and Greenland; just as the trees of cold countries are sometimes inflammable and more pitchy and re...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Eructations and eruptions of flame are to be found in cold climates as well as in hot, as in Iceland and Greenland; just as the trees of cold countries are sometimes inflammable and more pitchy and resinous than in warm, as the fir, pine, and the like. But the position and nature of the soil, where ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_247" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "All flame is constantly more or less warm, and this instance is not altogether negative; yet it is said that the ignis fatuus (as it is called), and which sometimes is driven against walls, has but li...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: All flame is constantly more or less warm, and this instance is not altogether negative; yet it is said that the ignis fatuus (as it is called), and which sometimes is driven against walls, has but little heat; perhaps it resembles that of spirits of wine, which is mild and gentle. That flame, howev", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_248" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Every ignited body that is red-hot is always warm, although without flame, nor is any negative instance subjoined to this affirmative.\nRotten wood, however, approaches nearly to it, for it shines at n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Every ignited body that is red-hot is always warm, although without flame, nor is any negative instance subjoined to this affirmative.\nRotten wood, however, approaches nearly to it, for it shines at night, and yet is not found to be warm; and the putrefying scales of fish which shine in the same man", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_249" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The situation and nature of the soil of natural warm baths has not been sufficiently investigated, and therefore a negative instance is not subjoined.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The situation and nature of the soil of natural warm baths has not been sufficiently investigated, and therefore a negative instance is not subjoined.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_250" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To the instances of warm liquids we may subjoin the negative one of the peculiar nature of liquids in general; for no tangible liquid is known that is at once warm in its nature and constantly continu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To the instances of warm liquids we may subjoin the negative one of the peculiar nature of liquids in general; for no tangible liquid is known that is at once warm in its nature and constantly continues warm; but their heat is only superinduced as an adventitious nature for a limited time, so that t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_251" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In like manner we may subjoin a negative instance to that of warm vapor, derived from the nature of vapor itself, as far as we are acquainted with it. For exhalations from oily substances, though easi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In like manner we may subjoin a negative instance to that of warm vapor, derived from the nature of vapor itself, as far as we are acquainted with it. For exhalations from oily substances, though easily inflammable, are yet never warm unless recently exhaled from some warm substance.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_252" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The same may be said of the instance of air; for we never perceive that air is warm unless confined or pressed, or manifestly heated by the sun, by fire, or some other warm body.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The same may be said of the instance of air; for we never perceive that air is warm unless confined or pressed, or manifestly heated by the sun, by fire, or some other warm body.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_253" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A negative instance is exhibited in weather by its coldness with an east or north wind, beyond what the season would lead us to expect, just as the contrary takes place with the south or west winds. A...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A negative instance is exhibited in weather by its coldness with an east or north wind, beyond what the season would lead us to expect, just as the contrary takes place with the south or west winds. An inclination to rain (especially in winter) attends warm weather, and to frost cold weather.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_254" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A negative instance as to air confined in caverns may be observed in summer. Indeed, we should make a more diligent inquiry into the nature of confined air. For in the first place the qualities of air...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A negative instance as to air confined in caverns may be observed in summer. Indeed, we should make a more diligent inquiry into the nature of confined air. For in the first place the qualities of air in its own nature with regard to heat and cold may reasonably be the subject of doubt; for air evid", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_255" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is a similar doubt as to whether the warmth of wool, skins, feathers, and the like, is derived from a slight inherent heat, since they are animal excretions, or from their being of a certain fat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is a similar doubt as to whether the warmth of wool, skins, feathers, and the like, is derived from a slight inherent heat, since they are animal excretions, or from their being of a certain fat and oily nature that accords with heat, or merely from the confinement and separation of air which ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_256" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have here no exactly negative instance, for we are not acquainted with any body tangible or spirituous which does not admit of heat when exposed to the fire. There is, however, this difference, tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have here no exactly negative instance, for we are not acquainted with any body tangible or spirituous which does not admit of heat when exposed to the fire. There is, however, this difference, that some admit it more rapidly, as air, oil, and water, others more slowly, as stone and metals.[92] T", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_257" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "No negative is here subjoined, except the remark that sparks are not kindled by flint and steel, or any other hard substance, unless some small particles of the stone or metal are struck off, and that...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: No negative is here subjoined, except the remark that sparks are not kindled by flint and steel, or any other hard substance, unless some small particles of the stone or metal are struck off, and that the air never forms them by friction, as is commonly supposed; besides, the sparks from the weight ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_258" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We are of opinion that here again there is no negative; for we are not acquainted with any tangible body which does not become decidedly warm by friction, so that the ancients feigned that the gods ha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We are of opinion that here again there is no negative; for we are not acquainted with any tangible body which does not become decidedly warm by friction, so that the ancients feigned that the gods had no other means or power of creating heat than the friction of air, by rapid and violent rotation. ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_259" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We must make a more diligent inquiry into this instance; for herbs and green and moist vegetables appear to possess a latent heat, so small, however, as not to be perceived by the touch in single spec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We must make a more diligent inquiry into this instance; for herbs and green and moist vegetables appear to possess a latent heat, so small, however, as not to be perceived by the touch in single specimens, but when they are united and confined, so that their spirit cannot exhale into the air, and t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_260" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, too, we must make a more diligent inquiry; for quicklime, when sprinkled with water, appears to conceive heat, either from its being collected into one point (as we observed of herbs when confin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, too, we must make a more diligent inquiry; for quicklime, when sprinkled with water, appears to conceive heat, either from its being collected into one point (as we observed of herbs when confined), or from the irritation and exasperation of the fiery spirit by water, which occasions a conflic", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_261" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "A negative instance may be subjoined of other metals which are more soft and soluble; for leaf gold dissolved by aqua regia, or lead by aqua fortis, are not warm to the touch while dissolving, no more...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: A negative instance may be subjoined of other metals which are more soft and soluble; for leaf gold dissolved by aqua regia, or lead by aqua fortis, are not warm to the touch while dissolving, no more is quicksilver (as far as I remember), but silver excites a slight heat, and so does copper, and ti", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_262" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is no negative instance with regard to the heat of animals, except in insects (as has been observed), owing to their small size; for in fishes, as compared with land animals, a lower degree rath...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is no negative instance with regard to the heat of animals, except in insects (as has been observed), owing to their small size; for in fishes, as compared with land animals, a lower degree rather than a deprivation of heat is observable. In plants and vegetables, both as to their exudations a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_263" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, again, there is scarcely a negative instance. I might add that the excrements of animals, even when they are no longer fresh, possess evidently some effective heat, as is shown by their enrichin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, again, there is scarcely a negative instance. I might add that the excrements of animals, even when they are no longer fresh, possess evidently some effective heat, as is shown by their enriching the soil.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_264" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Such liquids (whether oily or watery) as are intensely acrid exhibit the effects of heat, by the separation and burning of bodies after some little action upon them, yet they are not at first warm to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Such liquids (whether oily or watery) as are intensely acrid exhibit the effects of heat, by the separation and burning of bodies after some little action upon them, yet they are not at first warm to the touch, but they act according to their affinity and the pores of the substances to which they ar", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_265" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let spirits of wine be tried on wood, or butter, wax, or pitch, to see if this will melt them at all by their heat; for the twenty-fourth instance shows that they possess properties resembling those o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let spirits of wine be tried on wood, or butter, wax, or pitch, to see if this will melt them at all by their heat; for the twenty-fourth instance shows that they possess properties resembling those of heat in causing incrustation. Let an experiment also be made with a graduated glass or calendar,[9", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_266" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Spices and acrid herbs are sensibly warm to the palate, and still more so when taken internally; one should see, therefore, on what other substances they exhibit the effects of heat. Now, sailors tell...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Spices and acrid herbs are sensibly warm to the palate, and still more so when taken internally; one should see, therefore, on what other substances they exhibit the effects of heat. Now, sailors tell us that when large quantities of spices are suddenly opened, after having been shut up for some tim", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_267" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is an acrid effect and a degree of penetration in cold liquids, such as vinegar and oil of vitriol, as well as in warm, such as oil of marjoram and the like; they have, therefore, an equal effec...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is an acrid effect and a degree of penetration in cold liquids, such as vinegar and oil of vitriol, as well as in warm, such as oil of marjoram and the like; they have, therefore, an equal effect in causing animated substances to smart, and separating and consuming inanimate parts. There is no", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_268" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There are many effects common to cold and heat, however different in their process; for snowballs appear to burn boys’ hands after a little time, and cold no less than fire preserves bodies from putre...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There are many effects common to cold and heat, however different in their process; for snowballs appear to burn boys’ hands after a little time, and cold no less than fire preserves bodies from putrefaction--besides both heat and cold contract bodies. But it is better to refer these instances and t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_269" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIII. In the third place we must exhibit to the understanding the instances in which that nature, which is the object of our inquiries, is present in a greater or less degree, either by comparing its ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIII. In the third place we must exhibit to the understanding the instances in which that nature, which is the object of our inquiries, is present in a greater or less degree, either by comparing its increase and decrease in the same object, or its degree in different objects; for since the form of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_270" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We will first speak of those bodies which exhibit no degree of heat sensible to the touch, but appear rather to possess a potential heat, or disposition and preparation for it. We will then go on to o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We will first speak of those bodies which exhibit no degree of heat sensible to the touch, but appear rather to possess a potential heat, or disposition and preparation for it. We will then go on to others, which are actually warm to the touch, and observe the strength and degree of it.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_271" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "1. There is no known solid or tangible body which is by its own nature originally warm; for neither stone, metal, sulphur, fossils, wood, water, nor dead animal carcasses are found warm. The warm spri...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 1. There is no known solid or tangible body which is by its own nature originally warm; for neither stone, metal, sulphur, fossils, wood, water, nor dead animal carcasses are found warm. The warm springs in baths appear to be heated accidentally, by flame, subterraneous fire (such as is thrown up by", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_272" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "2. But with regard to potential heat and predisposition to flame, we find many inanimate substances wonderfully adapted to it, as sulphur, naphtha, and saltpetre.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 2. But with regard to potential heat and predisposition to flame, we find many inanimate substances wonderfully adapted to it, as sulphur, naphtha, and saltpetre.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_273" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "3. Bodies which have previously acquired heat, as horse dung from the animal, or lime, and perhaps ashes and soot from fire, retain some latent portion of it. Hence distillations and separations of su...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 3. Bodies which have previously acquired heat, as horse dung from the animal, or lime, and perhaps ashes and soot from fire, retain some latent portion of it. Hence distillations and separations of substances are effected by burying them in horse dung, and heat is excited in lime by sprinkling it wi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_274" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "4. In the vegetable world we know of no plant, nor part of any plant (as the exudations or pith) that is warm to man’s touch. Yet (as we have before observed) green weeds grow warm when confined, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 4. In the vegetable world we know of no plant, nor part of any plant (as the exudations or pith) that is warm to man’s touch. Yet (as we have before observed) green weeds grow warm when confined, and some vegetables are warm and others cold to our internal touch, _i.e._, the palate and stomach, or e", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_275" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "5. We know of nothing in the various parts of animals, when dead or detached from the rest, that is warm to the touch; for horse dung itself does not retain its heat, unless it be confined and buried....", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 5. We know of nothing in the various parts of animals, when dead or detached from the rest, that is warm to the touch; for horse dung itself does not retain its heat, unless it be confined and buried. All dung, however, appears to possess a potential heat, as in manuring fields; so also dead bodies ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_276" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "7. All putrefaction exhibits some slight degree of heat, though not enough to be perceptible by the touch; for neither the substances which by putrefaction are converted into animalculæ,[95] as flesh ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 7. All putrefaction exhibits some slight degree of heat, though not enough to be perceptible by the touch; for neither the substances which by putrefaction are converted into animalculæ,[95] as flesh and cheese, nor rotten wood which shines in the dark, are warm to the touch. The heat, however, of p", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_278" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "8. The first degree of heat, therefore, in substances which are warm to the human touch appears to be that of animals, and this admits of a great variety of degrees, for the lowest (as in insects) is ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 8. The first degree of heat, therefore, in substances which are warm to the human touch appears to be that of animals, and this admits of a great variety of degrees, for the lowest (as in insects) is scarcely perceptible, the highest scarcely equals that of the sun’s rays in warm climates and weathe", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_279" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "10. In the paroxysm of intermittent fevers the patients are at first seized with cold and shivering, but soon afterward become more heated than at first--in burning and pestilential fevers they are ho...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 10. In the paroxysm of intermittent fevers the patients are at first seized with cold and shivering, but soon afterward become more heated than at first--in burning and pestilential fevers they are hot from the beginning.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_281" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "11. Let further inquiry be made into the comparative heat of different animals, as fishes, quadrupeds, serpents, birds, and also of the different species, as the lion, the kite, or man; for, according...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 11. Let further inquiry be made into the comparative heat of different animals, as fishes, quadrupeds, serpents, birds, and also of the different species, as the lion, the kite, or man; for, according to the vulgar opinion, fishes are the least warm internally, and birds the most, particularly doves", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_282" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "12. Let further inquiry be made as to the comparative heat in different parts and limbs of the same animal; for milk, blood, seed, and eggs are moderately warm, and less hot than the outward flesh of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 12. Let further inquiry be made as to the comparative heat in different parts and limbs of the same animal; for milk, blood, seed, and eggs are moderately warm, and less hot than the outward flesh of the animal when in motion or agitated. The degree of heat of the brain, stomach, heart, and the rest", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_283" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "14. The heat of the heavenly bodies, even in the warmest climates and seasons, never reaches such a pitch as to light or burn the driest wood or straw, or even tinder without the aid of burning-glasse...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 14. The heat of the heavenly bodies, even in the warmest climates and seasons, never reaches such a pitch as to light or burn the driest wood or straw, or even tinder without the aid of burning-glasses. It can, however, raise vapor from moist substances.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_285" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "15. Astronomers tell us that some stars are hotter than others. Mars is considered the warmest after the Sun, then Jupiter, then Venus. The Moon and, above all, Saturn, are considered to be cold. Amon...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 15. Astronomers tell us that some stars are hotter than others. Mars is considered the warmest after the Sun, then Jupiter, then Venus. The Moon and, above all, Saturn, are considered to be cold. Among the fixed stars Sirius is thought the warmest, then Cor Leonis or Regulus, then the lesser Dog-sta", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_286" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "16. The sun gives out more heat as it approaches toward the perpendicular or zenith, which may be supposed to be the case with the other planets, according to their degree of heat; for instance, that ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 16. The sun gives out more heat as it approaches toward the perpendicular or zenith, which may be supposed to be the case with the other planets, according to their degree of heat; for instance, that Jupiter gives out more heat when situated beneath Cancer or Leo than when he is beneath Capricorn an", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_287" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "17. It is to be supposed that the sun and other planets give more heat in perigee, from their approximation to the earth, than when in apogee. But if in any country the sun should be both in its perig...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 17. It is to be supposed that the sun and other planets give more heat in perigee, from their approximation to the earth, than when in apogee. But if in any country the sun should be both in its perigee and nearer to the perpendicular at the same time, it must necessarily give out more heat than in ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_288" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "18. The sun and other planets are thought also to give out more heat in proportion as they are nearer to the larger fixed stars, as when the sun is in Leo he is nearer Cor Leonis, Cauda Leonis, Spica ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 18. The sun and other planets are thought also to give out more heat in proportion as they are nearer to the larger fixed stars, as when the sun is in Leo he is nearer Cor Leonis, Cauda Leonis, Spica Virginis, Sirius, and the lesser Dog-star, than when he is in Cancer, where, however, he approaches ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_289" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "19. On the whole, the heat of the heavenly bodies is augmented in three ways: 1. The approach to the perpendicular; 2. Proximity or their perigee; 3. The conjunction or union of stars.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 19. On the whole, the heat of the heavenly bodies is augmented in three ways: 1. The approach to the perpendicular; 2. Proximity or their perigee; 3. The conjunction or union of stars.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_290" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "20. There is a very considerable difference between the degree of heat in animals, and even in the rays of the heavenly bodies (as they reach us), and the heat of the most gentle flame, and even of al...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 20. There is a very considerable difference between the degree of heat in animals, and even in the rays of the heavenly bodies (as they reach us), and the heat of the most gentle flame, and even of all ignited substances, nay, liquids, or the air itself when unusually heated by fire. For the flame o", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_291" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "21. There are, however, many degrees of strength and weakness in flame and ignited bodies: but no diligent inquiry has been made in this respect, and we must, therefore, pass it hastily over. Of all f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 21. There are, however, many degrees of strength and weakness in flame and ignited bodies: but no diligent inquiry has been made in this respect, and we must, therefore, pass it hastily over. Of all flames, that of spirits of wine appears to be the most gentle, except perhaps the ignis fatuus, or th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_292" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "22. We consider that the flame which results from some imperfect metals is very strong and active; but on all these points further inquiry should be made.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 22. We consider that the flame which results from some imperfect metals is very strong and active; but on all these points further inquiry should be made.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_293" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "23. The flame of vivid lightning appears to exceed all the above, so as sometimes to have melted even wrought iron into drops, which the other flames cannot accomplish.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 23. The flame of vivid lightning appears to exceed all the above, so as sometimes to have melted even wrought iron into drops, which the other flames cannot accomplish.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_294" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "24. In ignited bodies there are different degrees of heat, concerning which, also, a diligent inquiry has not been made. We consider the faintest heat to be that of tinder, touchwood, and dry rope mat...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 24. In ignited bodies there are different degrees of heat, concerning which, also, a diligent inquiry has not been made. We consider the faintest heat to be that of tinder, touchwood, and dry rope match, such as is used for discharging cannon. Next follows that of ignited charcoal or cinders, and ev", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_295" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "25. Some ignited bodies are found to be much warmer than some flames; for instance, red hot iron is much warmer, and burns more than the flame of spirits of wine.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 25. Some ignited bodies are found to be much warmer than some flames; for instance, red hot iron is much warmer, and burns more than the flame of spirits of wine.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_296" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "26. Some bodies even not ignited, but only heated by the fire, as boiling water, and the air confined in reverberatories, surpass in heat many flames and ignited substances.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 26. Some bodies even not ignited, but only heated by the fire, as boiling water, and the air confined in reverberatories, surpass in heat many flames and ignited substances.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_297" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "27. Motion increases heat,[96] as is shown in the bellows and the blowpipe; for the harder metals are not dissolved or melted by steady quiet fire, without the aid of the blowpipe.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 27. Motion increases heat,[96] as is shown in the bellows and the blowpipe; for the harder metals are not dissolved or melted by steady quiet fire, without the aid of the blowpipe.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_298" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "28. Let an experiment be made with burning-glasses; in which respect I have observed, that if a glass be placed at the distance of ten inches, for instance, from the combustible object, it does not ki...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 28. Let an experiment be made with burning-glasses; in which respect I have observed, that if a glass be placed at the distance of ten inches, for instance, from the combustible object, it does not kindle or burn it so readily, as if the glass be placed at the distance of five inches (for instance),", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_299" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "29. Conflagrations, which take place with a high wind, are thought to make greater way against than with the wind, because when the wind slackens, the flame recoils more rapidly than it advances when ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 29. Conflagrations, which take place with a high wind, are thought to make greater way against than with the wind, because when the wind slackens, the flame recoils more rapidly than it advances when the wind is favorable.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_300" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "30. Flame does not burst out or arise unless it have some hollow space to move and exert itself in, except in the exploding flame of gunpowder, and the like, where the compression and confinement of t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 30. Flame does not burst out or arise unless it have some hollow space to move and exert itself in, except in the exploding flame of gunpowder, and the like, where the compression and confinement of the flame increase its fury.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_301" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "31. The anvil becomes so hot by the hammer, that if it were a thin plate it might probably grow red, like ignited iron by repeated strokes. Let the experiment be tried.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 31. The anvil becomes so hot by the hammer, that if it were a thin plate it might probably grow red, like ignited iron by repeated strokes. Let the experiment be tried.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_302" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "32. But in ignited bodies that are porous, so as to leave room for the fire to move itself, if its motion be prevented by strong compression, the fire is immediately extinguished; thus it is with tind...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 32. But in ignited bodies that are porous, so as to leave room for the fire to move itself, if its motion be prevented by strong compression, the fire is immediately extinguished; thus it is with tinder, or the burning snuff of a candle or lamp, or even hot charcoal or cinders; for when they are squ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_303" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "33. The approach toward a hot body increases heat in proportion to the approximation; a similar effect to that of light, for the nearer any object is placed toward the light, the more visible it becom...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 33. The approach toward a hot body increases heat in proportion to the approximation; a similar effect to that of light, for the nearer any object is placed toward the light, the more visible it becomes.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_304" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "34. The[97] union of different heats increases heat, unless the substances be mixed; for a large and small fire in the same spot tend mutually to increase each other’s heat, but lukewarm water poured ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 34. The[97] union of different heats increases heat, unless the substances be mixed; for a large and small fire in the same spot tend mutually to increase each other’s heat, but lukewarm water poured into boiling water cools it.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_305" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "35. The continued neighborhood of a warm body increases heat. For the heat, which perpetually passes and emanates from it, being mixed with that which preceded it, multiplies the whole. A fire, for in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 35. The continued neighborhood of a warm body increases heat. For the heat, which perpetually passes and emanates from it, being mixed with that which preceded it, multiplies the whole. A fire, for instance, does not warm a room in half an hour as much as the same fire would in an hour. This does no", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_306" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "36. The irritation of surrounding cold increases heat, as may be seen in fires during a sharp frost. We think that this is owing not merely to the confinement and compression of the heat (which forms ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 36. The irritation of surrounding cold increases heat, as may be seen in fires during a sharp frost. We think that this is owing not merely to the confinement and compression of the heat (which forms a sort of union), but also by the exasperation of it, as when the air or a stick are violently compr", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_307" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "37. There are many degrees in the susceptibility of heat. And, first, it must be observed how much a low gentle heat changes and partially warms even the bodies least susceptible of it. For even the h...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 37. There are many degrees in the susceptibility of heat. And, first, it must be observed how much a low gentle heat changes and partially warms even the bodies least susceptible of it. For even the heat of the hand imparts a little warmth to a ball of lead or other metal held a short time in it; so", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_308" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "38. Of all bodies that we are acquainted with, air admits and loses heat the most readily, which is admirably seen in weather-glasses, whose construction is as follows: Take a glass with a hollow bell...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 38. Of all bodies that we are acquainted with, air admits and loses heat the most readily, which is admirably seen in weather-glasses, whose construction is as follows: Take a glass with a hollow belly, and a thin and long neck; turn it upside down, and place it with its mouth downward into another ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_309" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Before the first glass be inserted in the other, its upper part (the belly) should be warmed at the fire. Then upon placing it as we have described, the air (which was dilated by the heat), after a su...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Before the first glass be inserted in the other, its upper part (the belly) should be warmed at the fire. Then upon placing it as we have described, the air (which was dilated by the heat), after a sufficient time has been allowed for it to lose the additional temperature, will restore and contract ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_310" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "39. After air, we consider those bodies to be most sensible of heat, which have been recently changed and contracted by cold, as snow and ice; for they begin to be dissolved and melt with the first mi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 39. After air, we consider those bodies to be most sensible of heat, which have been recently changed and contracted by cold, as snow and ice; for they begin to be dissolved and melt with the first mild weather. Next, perhaps, follows quicksilver; then greasy substances, as oil, butter, and the like", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_311" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "40. The less massive the body is, the more readily it grows warm at the approach of a heated body, which shows that heat with us is somewhat averse to a tangible mass.[100]", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 40. The less massive the body is, the more readily it grows warm at the approach of a heated body, which shows that heat with us is somewhat averse to a tangible mass.[100]", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_312" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "41. Heat with regard to the human senses and touch is various and relative, so that lukewarm water appears hot if the hand be cold, and cold if the hand be hot.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 41. Heat with regard to the human senses and touch is various and relative, so that lukewarm water appears hot if the hand be cold, and cold if the hand be hot.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_313" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIV. Any one may readily see how poor we are in history, since in the above tables, besides occasionally inserting traditions and report instead of approved history and authentic instances (always, ho...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIV. Any one may readily see how poor we are in history, since in the above tables, besides occasionally inserting traditions and report instead of approved history and authentic instances (always, however, adding some note if their credit or authority be doubtful), we are often forced to subjoin, “", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_314" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XV. We are wont to term the office and use of these three tables the presenting a review of instances to the understanding; and when this has been done, induction itself is to be brought into action. ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XV. We are wont to term the office and use of these three tables the presenting a review of instances to the understanding; and when this has been done, induction itself is to be brought into action. For on an individual review of all the instances a nature is to be found, such as always to be prese", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_315" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVI. We must, therefore, effect a complete solution and separation of nature; not by fire, but by the mind, that divine fire. The first work of legitimate induction, in the discovery of forms, is reje...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVI. We must, therefore, effect a complete solution and separation of nature; not by fire, but by the mind, that divine fire. The first work of legitimate induction, in the discovery of forms, is rejection, or the exclusive instances of individual natures, which are not found in some one instance wh", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_316" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVII. The first and almost perpetual precaution and warning which we consider necessary is this; that none should suppose from the great part assigned by us to forms, that we mean such forms as the me...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVII. The first and almost perpetual precaution and warning which we consider necessary is this; that none should suppose from the great part assigned by us to forms, that we mean such forms as the meditations and thoughts of men have hitherto been accustomed to. In the first place, we do not at pre", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_317" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor again, would we be thought to mean (even when treating of simple natures) any abstract forms or ideas, either undefined or badly defined in matter. For when we speak of forms, we mean nothing else...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor again, would we be thought to mean (even when treating of simple natures) any abstract forms or ideas, either undefined or badly defined in matter. For when we speak of forms, we mean nothing else than those laws and regulations of simple action which arrange and constitute any simple nature, su", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_318" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if our forms appear to any one to be somewhat abstracted, from their mingling and uniting heterogeneous objects (the heat, for instance, of the heavenly bodies appears to be very different from th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if our forms appear to any one to be somewhat abstracted, from their mingling and uniting heterogeneous objects (the heat, for instance, of the heavenly bodies appears to be very different from that of fire; the fixed red of the rose and the like, from that which is apparent in the rainbow, or t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_319" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XVIII. We must now offer an example of the exclusion or rejection of natures found by the tables of review, not to be of the form of heat; first premising that not only each table is sufficient for th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XVIII. We must now offer an example of the exclusion or rejection of natures found by the tables of review, not to be of the form of heat; first premising that not only each table is sufficient for the rejection of any nature, but even each single instance contained in them. For it is clear from wha", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_320" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "2. On account of common fire, and particularly subterranean fires (which are the most remote and secluded from the rays of the heavenly bodies), reject celestial nature.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 2. On account of common fire, and particularly subterranean fires (which are the most remote and secluded from the rays of the heavenly bodies), reject celestial nature.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_321" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "3. On account of the heat acquired by every description of substances (as minerals, vegetables, the external parts of animals, water, oil, air, etc.) by mere approximation to the fire or any warm body...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 3. On account of the heat acquired by every description of substances (as minerals, vegetables, the external parts of animals, water, oil, air, etc.) by mere approximation to the fire or any warm body, reject all variety and delicate texture of bodies.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_322" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "4. On account of iron and ignited metals, which warm other bodies, and yet neither lose their weight nor substance, reject the imparting or mixing of the substance of the heating body.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 4. On account of iron and ignited metals, which warm other bodies, and yet neither lose their weight nor substance, reject the imparting or mixing of the substance of the heating body.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_323" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "5. On account of boiling water and air, and also those metals and other solid bodies which are heated, but not to ignition, or red heat, reject flame or light.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 5. On account of boiling water and air, and also those metals and other solid bodies which are heated, but not to ignition, or red heat, reject flame or light.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_324" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "6. On account of the rays of the moon and other heavenly bodies (except the sun), again reject flame or light.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 6. On account of the rays of the moon and other heavenly bodies (except the sun), again reject flame or light.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_325" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "7. On account of the comparison between red-hot iron and the flame of spirits of wine (for the iron is more hot and less bright, while the flame of spirits of wine is more bright and less hot), again ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 7. On account of the comparison between red-hot iron and the flame of spirits of wine (for the iron is more hot and less bright, while the flame of spirits of wine is more bright and less hot), again reject flame and light.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_326" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "10. On account of ignited iron,[103] which does not swell in bulk, but retains the same apparent dimension, reject the absolute expansive motion of the whole.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 10. On account of ignited iron,[103] which does not swell in bulk, but retains the same apparent dimension, reject the absolute expansive motion of the whole.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_328" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "11. On account of the expansion of the air in thermometers and the like, which is absolutely moved and expanded to the eye, and yet acquires no manifest increase of heat, again reject absolute or expa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 11. On account of the expansion of the air in thermometers and the like, which is absolutely moved and expanded to the eye, and yet acquires no manifest increase of heat, again reject absolute or expansive motion of the whole.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_329" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "12. On account of the ready application of heat to all substances without any destruction or remarkable alteration of them, reject destructive nature or the violent communication of any new nature.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 12. On account of the ready application of heat to all substances without any destruction or remarkable alteration of them, reject destructive nature or the violent communication of any new nature.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_330" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "13. On account of the agreement and conformity of the effects produced by cold and heat, reject both expansive and contracting motion as regards the whole.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 13. On account of the agreement and conformity of the effects produced by cold and heat, reject both expansive and contracting motion as regards the whole.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_331" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "14. On account of the heat excited by friction, reject principal nature, by which we mean that which exists positively, and is not caused by a preceding nature.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 14. On account of the heat excited by friction, reject principal nature, by which we mean that which exists positively, and is not caused by a preceding nature.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_332" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "None of the above natures are of the form of heat; and man is freed from them all in his operation upon heat.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: None of the above natures are of the form of heat; and man is freed from them all in his operation upon heat.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_334" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XIX. In the exclusive table are laid the foundations of true induction, which is not, however, completed until the affirmative be attained. Nor is the exclusive table perfect, nor can it be so at firs...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XIX. In the exclusive table are laid the foundations of true induction, which is not, however, completed until the affirmative be attained. Nor is the exclusive table perfect, nor can it be so at first. For it is clearly a rejection of simple natures; but if we have not as yet good and just notions ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_335" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XX. Since, however, truth emerges more readily from error than confusion, we consider it useful to leave the understanding at liberty to exert itself and attempt the interpretation of nature in the af...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XX. Since, however, truth emerges more readily from error than confusion, we consider it useful to leave the understanding at liberty to exert itself and attempt the interpretation of nature in the affirmative, after having constructed and weighed the three tables of preparation, such as we have lai", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_336" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It must be observed that the form of anything is inherent (as appears clearly from our premises) in each individual instance in which the thing itself is inherent, or it would not be a form. No contra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It must be observed that the form of anything is inherent (as appears clearly from our premises) in each individual instance in which the thing itself is inherent, or it would not be a form. No contradictory instance, therefore, can be alleged. The form, however, is found to be much more conspicuous", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_337" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "From the instances taken collectively, as well as singly, the nature whose limit is heat appears to be motion. This is chiefly exhibited in flame, which is in constant motion, and in warm or boiling l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: From the instances taken collectively, as well as singly, the nature whose limit is heat appears to be motion. This is chiefly exhibited in flame, which is in constant motion, and in warm or boiling liquids, which are likewise in constant motion. It is also shown in the excitement or increase of hea", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_338" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "What we have said with regard to motion must be thus understood, when taken as the genus of heat: it must not be thought that heat generates motion, or motion heat (though in some respects this be tru...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: What we have said with regard to motion must be thus understood, when taken as the genus of heat: it must not be thought that heat generates motion, or motion heat (though in some respects this be true), but that the very essence of heat, or the substantial self[104] of heat, is motion and nothing e", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_339" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Sensible heat is relative, and regards man, not universe; and is rightly held to be merely the effect of heat on animal spirit. It is even variable in itself, since the same body (in different states ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Sensible heat is relative, and regards man, not universe; and is rightly held to be merely the effect of heat on animal spirit. It is even variable in itself, since the same body (in different states of sensation) excites the feeling of heat and of cold; this is shown by Inst. 41, Tab. 3.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_340" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor should we confound the communication of heat or its transitive nature, by which a body grows warm at the approach of a heated body, with the form of heat; for heat is one thing and heating another...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor should we confound the communication of heat or its transitive nature, by which a body grows warm at the approach of a heated body, with the form of heat; for heat is one thing and heating another. Heat can be excited by friction without any previous heating body, and, therefore, heating is excl", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_341" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The notion of fire is vulgar, and of no assistance; it is merely compounded of the conjunction of heat and light in any body, as in ordinary flame and red-hot substances.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The notion of fire is vulgar, and of no assistance; it is merely compounded of the conjunction of heat and light in any body, as in ordinary flame and red-hot substances.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_342" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Laying aside all ambiguity, therefore, we must lastly consider the true differences which limit motion and render it the form of heat.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Laying aside all ambiguity, therefore, we must lastly consider the true differences which limit motion and render it the form of heat.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_343" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "I. The first difference is, that heat is an expansive motion, by which the body strives to dilate itself, and to occupy a greater space than before. This difference is principally seen in flame, where...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: I. The first difference is, that heat is an expansive motion, by which the body strives to dilate itself, and to occupy a greater space than before. This difference is principally seen in flame, where the smoke or thick vapor is clearly dilated and bursts into flame.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_344" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in all boiling liquids, which swell, rise, and boil up to the sight, and the process of expansion is urged forward till they are converted into a much more extended and dilated body t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in all boiling liquids, which swell, rise, and boil up to the sight, and the process of expansion is urged forward till they are converted into a much more extended and dilated body than the liquid itself, such as steam, smoke, or air.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_345" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in the melting of metals, which, being very compact, do not easily swell and dilate, but yet their spirit, when dilated and desirous of further expansion, forces and urges its thicker...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in the melting of metals, which, being very compact, do not easily swell and dilate, but yet their spirit, when dilated and desirous of further expansion, forces and urges its thicker parts into dissolution, and if the heat be pushed still further, reduces a considerable part of the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_347" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in iron or stones, which though not melted or dissolved, are however softened. The same circumstance takes place in sticks of wood, which become flexible when a little heated in warm ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in iron or stones, which though not melted or dissolved, are however softened. The same circumstance takes place in sticks of wood, which become flexible when a little heated in warm ashes.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_348" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is most readily observed in air, which instantly and manifestly expands with a small degree of heat, as in Inst. 38, Tab. 3.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is most readily observed in air, which instantly and manifestly expands with a small degree of heat, as in Inst. 38, Tab. 3.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_349" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in the contrary nature of cold; for cold contracts and narrows every substance;[105] so that in intense frosts nails fall out of the wall and brass cracks, and heated glass exposed su...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in the contrary nature of cold; for cold contracts and narrows every substance;[105] so that in intense frosts nails fall out of the wall and brass cracks, and heated glass exposed suddenly to the cold cracks and breaks. So the air, by a slight degree of cold, contracts itself, as i", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_350" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor is it to be wondered at if cold and heat exhibit many common effects (for which see Inst. 32, Tab. 2), since two differences, of which we shall presently speak, belong to each nature: although in ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor is it to be wondered at if cold and heat exhibit many common effects (for which see Inst. 32, Tab. 2), since two differences, of which we shall presently speak, belong to each nature: although in the present difference the effects be diametrically opposed to each other. For heat occasions an exp", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_351" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "II. The second difference is a modification of the preceding, namely, that heat is an expansive motion, tending toward the exterior, but at the same time bearing the body upward. For there is no doubt...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: II. The second difference is a modification of the preceding, namely, that heat is an expansive motion, tending toward the exterior, but at the same time bearing the body upward. For there is no doubt that there be many compound motions, as an arrow or dart, for instance, has both a rotatory and pro", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_352" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This difference is shown by putting the tongs or poker into the fire.\nIf placed perpendicularly with the hand above, they soon burn it, but much less speedily if the hand hold them sloping or from bel...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This difference is shown by putting the tongs or poker into the fire.\nIf placed perpendicularly with the hand above, they soon burn it, but much less speedily if the hand hold them sloping or from below.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_353" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also conspicuous in distillations _per descensum_, which men are wont to employ with delicate flowers, whose scent easily evaporates.\nTheir industry has devised placing the fire above instead of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also conspicuous in distillations _per descensum_, which men are wont to employ with delicate flowers, whose scent easily evaporates.\nTheir industry has devised placing the fire above instead of below, that it may scorch less; for not only flame but all heat has an upward tendency.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_354" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let an experiment be made on the contrary nature of cold, whether its contraction be downward, as the expansion of heat is upward. Take, therefore, two iron rods or two glass tubes, alike in other res...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let an experiment be made on the contrary nature of cold, whether its contraction be downward, as the expansion of heat is upward. Take, therefore, two iron rods or two glass tubes, alike in other respects, and warm them a little, and place a sponge, dipped in cold water, or some snow, below the one", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_355" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "III. The third difference is this; that heat is not a uniform expansive motion of the whole, but of the small particles of the body; and this motion being at the same time restrained, repulsed, and re...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: III. The third difference is this; that heat is not a uniform expansive motion of the whole, but of the small particles of the body; and this motion being at the same time restrained, repulsed, and reflected, becomes alternating, perpetually hurrying, striving, struggling, and irritated by the reper", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_356" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But this difference is chiefly shown in flame and boiling liquids, which always hurry, swell, and subside again in detached parts.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But this difference is chiefly shown in flame and boiling liquids, which always hurry, swell, and subside again in detached parts.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_357" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in bodies of such hard texture as not to swell or dilate in bulk, such as red-hot iron, in which the heat is most violent.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in bodies of such hard texture as not to swell or dilate in bulk, such as red-hot iron, in which the heat is most violent.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_358" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown by this, that when the air is dilated in the thermometer uniformly and equably, without any impediment or repulsion, the heat is not perceptible. In confined draughts also, although t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown by this, that when the air is dilated in the thermometer uniformly and equably, without any impediment or repulsion, the heat is not perceptible. In confined draughts also, although they break out very violently, no remarkable heat is perceived, because the motion affects the whole,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_359" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in this, that all burning proceeds by the minute pores of bodies--undermining, penetrating, piercing, and pricking them as if with an infinite number of needle-points. Hence all stron...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in this, that all burning proceeds by the minute pores of bodies--undermining, penetrating, piercing, and pricking them as if with an infinite number of needle-points. Hence all strong acids (if adapted to the body on which they act) exhibit the effects of fire, from their corroding", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_360" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The difference of which we now speak is common also to the nature of cold, in which the contracting motion is restrained by the resistance of expansion, as in heat the expansive motion is restrained b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The difference of which we now speak is common also to the nature of cold, in which the contracting motion is restrained by the resistance of expansion, as in heat the expansive motion is restrained by the resistance of contraction.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_361" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Whether, therefore, the particles of matter penetrate inward or outward, the reasoning is the same, though the power be very different, because we have nothing on earth which is intensely cold.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Whether, therefore, the particles of matter penetrate inward or outward, the reasoning is the same, though the power be very different, because we have nothing on earth which is intensely cold.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_362" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "IV. The fourth difference is a modification of the preceding, namely, that this stimulating or penetrating motion should be rapid and never sluggish, and should take place not in the very minutest par...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: IV. The fourth difference is a modification of the preceding, namely, that this stimulating or penetrating motion should be rapid and never sluggish, and should take place not in the very minutest particles, but rather in those of some tolerable dimensions.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_363" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is shown by comparing the effects of fire with those of time. Time dries, consumes, undermines, and reduces to ashes as well as fire, and perhaps to a much finer degree; but as its motion is very s...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is shown by comparing the effects of fire with those of time. Time dries, consumes, undermines, and reduces to ashes as well as fire, and perhaps to a much finer degree; but as its motion is very slow, and attacks very minute particles, no heat is perceived.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_364" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also shown in a comparison of the dissolution of iron and gold; for gold is dissolved without the excitement of any heat, but iron with a vehement excitement of it, although most in the same tim...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also shown in a comparison of the dissolution of iron and gold; for gold is dissolved without the excitement of any heat, but iron with a vehement excitement of it, although most in the same time, because in the former the penetration of the separating acid is mild, and gently insinuates itsel", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_365" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is partially shown, also, in some gangrenes and mortifications of flesh, which do not excite great heat or pain, from the gentle nature of the putrefaction.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is partially shown, also, in some gangrenes and mortifications of flesh, which do not excite great heat or pain, from the gentle nature of the putrefaction.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_366" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let this suffice for a first vintage, or the commencement of the interpretation of the form of heat by the liberty of the understanding.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let this suffice for a first vintage, or the commencement of the interpretation of the form of heat by the liberty of the understanding.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_367" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "From this first vintage the form or true definition of heat (considered relatively to the universe and not to the sense) is briefly thus--Heat is an expansive motion restrained, and striving to exert ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: From this first vintage the form or true definition of heat (considered relatively to the universe and not to the sense) is briefly thus--Heat is an expansive motion restrained, and striving to exert itself in the smaller particles.[106] The expansion is modified by its tendency to rise, though expa", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_368" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to the operative definition, the matter is the same. If you are able to excite a dilating or expansive motion in any natural body, and so to repress that motion and force it on itself as n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to the operative definition, the matter is the same. If you are able to excite a dilating or expansive motion in any natural body, and so to repress that motion and force it on itself as not to allow the expansion to proceed equally, but only to be partially exerted and partially repress", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_369" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXI. After our tables of first review, our rejection or exclusive table, and the first vintage derived from them, we must advance to the remaining helps of the understanding with regard to the interpr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXI. After our tables of first review, our rejection or exclusive table, and the first vintage derived from them, we must advance to the remaining helps of the understanding with regard to the interpretation of nature, and a true and perfect induction, in offering which we will take the examples of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_370" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In the first place, therefore, we will treat of prerogative instances;[107] 2. Of the supports of induction; 3. Of the correction of induction; 4. Of varying the investigation according to the nature ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the first place, therefore, we will treat of prerogative instances;[107] 2. Of the supports of induction; 3. Of the correction of induction; 4. Of varying the investigation according to the nature of the subject; 5. Of the prerogative natures with respect to investigation, or of what should be th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_371" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXII. Among the prerogative instances we will first mention solitary instances. Solitary instances are those which exhibit the required nature in subjects that have nothing in common with any other su...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXII. Among the prerogative instances we will first mention solitary instances. Solitary instances are those which exhibit the required nature in subjects that have nothing in common with any other subject than the nature in question, or which do not exhibit the required nature in subjects resemblin", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_372" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance, let the inquiry be the nature of color. Prisms, crystalline gems, which yield colors not only internally but on the wall, dews, etc., are solitary instances; for they have nothing in com...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance, let the inquiry be the nature of color. Prisms, crystalline gems, which yield colors not only internally but on the wall, dews, etc., are solitary instances; for they have nothing in common with the fixed colors in flowers and colored gems, metals, woods, etc., except the color itself.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_373" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, in the same inquiry the distinct veins of white and black in marble, and the variegated colors of flowers of the same species, are solitary instances; for the black and white of marble, and the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, in the same inquiry the distinct veins of white and black in marble, and the variegated colors of flowers of the same species, are solitary instances; for the black and white of marble, and the spots of white and purple in the flowers of the stock, agree in every respect but that of color. Th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_374" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIII. In the second rank of prerogative instances we will consider migrating instances. In these the required nature passes toward generation, having no previous existence, or toward corruption, havi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIII. In the second rank of prerogative instances we will consider migrating instances. In these the required nature passes toward generation, having no previous existence, or toward corruption, having first existed. In each of these divisions, therefore, the instances are always twofold, or rather", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_375" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let us then give an example of a migrating instance. Let whiteness be the required nature. An instance which passes toward generation is glass in its entire and in its powdered state, or water in its ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let us then give an example of a migrating instance. Let whiteness be the required nature. An instance which passes toward generation is glass in its entire and in its powdered state, or water in its natural state, and when agitated to froth; for glass when entire, and water in its natural state, ar", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_376" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But here we must also give an example of the danger and caution of which we spoke; for instance, it will readily occur to an understanding perverted by efficients, that air is always necessary for pro...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But here we must also give an example of the danger and caution of which we spoke; for instance, it will readily occur to an understanding perverted by efficients, that air is always necessary for producing the form of whiteness, or that whiteness is only generated by transparent bodies, which suppo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_377" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor should we by any means omit to state, that under migrating instances we must comprehend not only those which pass toward generation and destruction, but also those which pass toward increase or de...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor should we by any means omit to state, that under migrating instances we must comprehend not only those which pass toward generation and destruction, but also those which pass toward increase or decrease, for they, too, assist in the discovery of the form, as is clear from our definition of a for", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_378" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIV. In the third rank of prerogative instances we will class conspicuous instances, of which we spoke in our first vintage of the form of heat, and which we are also wont to call coruscations, or fr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIV. In the third rank of prerogative instances we will class conspicuous instances, of which we spoke in our first vintage of the form of heat, and which we are also wont to call coruscations, or free and predominant instances. They are such as show the required nature in its bare substantial shap", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_379" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For example, let heat be the required nature. The thermometer is a conspicuous instance of the expansive motion, which (as has been observed) constitutes the chief part of the form of heat; for althou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For example, let heat be the required nature. The thermometer is a conspicuous instance of the expansive motion, which (as has been observed) constitutes the chief part of the form of heat; for although flame clearly exhibits expansion, yet from its being extinguished every moment, it does not exhib", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_380" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Take another example. Let the required nature be weight. Quicksilver is a conspicuous instance of weight; for it is far heavier than any other substance except gold, which is not much heavier, and it ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Take another example. Let the required nature be weight. Quicksilver is a conspicuous instance of weight; for it is far heavier than any other substance except gold, which is not much heavier, and it is a better instance than gold for the purpose of indicating the form of weight; for gold is solid a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_381" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXV. In the fourth rank of prerogative instances we will class clandestine instances, which we are also wont to call twilight instances; they are as it were opposed to the conspicuous instances, for t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXV. In the fourth rank of prerogative instances we will class clandestine instances, which we are also wont to call twilight instances; they are as it were opposed to the conspicuous instances, for they show the required nature in its lowest state of efficacy, and as it were its cradle and first ru", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_382" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As an example, let consistency, or that which confines itself, be the required nature, the opposite of which is a liquid or flowing state. The clandestine instances are such as exhibit some weak and l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As an example, let consistency, or that which confines itself, be the required nature, the opposite of which is a liquid or flowing state. The clandestine instances are such as exhibit some weak and low degree of consistency in fluids, as a water bubble, which is a sort of consistent and bounded pel", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_383" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, to take another example, let the required nature be attraction or the cohesion of bodies. The most remarkable conspicuous instance with regard to its form is the magnet. The contrary nature to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, to take another example, let the required nature be attraction or the cohesion of bodies. The most remarkable conspicuous instance with regard to its form is the magnet. The contrary nature to attraction is non-attraction, though in a similar substance. Thus iron does not attract iron, lead l", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_384" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXVI. In the fifth rank of prerogative instances we will class constitutive instances, which we are wont also to call collective instances. They constitute a species or lesser form, as it were, of the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXVI. In the fifth rank of prerogative instances we will class constitutive instances, which we are wont also to call collective instances. They constitute a species or lesser form, as it were, of the required nature. For since the real forms (which are always convertible with the given nature) lie ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_385" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, nevertheless, great care must be taken that, after the discovery of several of these particular forms, and the establishing of certain partitions or divisions of the required nature derived from...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, nevertheless, great care must be taken that, after the discovery of several of these particular forms, and the establishing of certain partitions or divisions of the required nature derived from them, the human understanding do not at once rest satisfied, without preparing for the investigatio", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_386" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance, let the required nature be memory, or that which excites and assists memory. The constitutive instances are order or distribution, which manifestly assists memory: topics or commonplaces...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance, let the required nature be memory, or that which excites and assists memory. The constitutive instances are order or distribution, which manifestly assists memory: topics or commonplaces in artificial memory, which may be either places in their literal sense, as a gate, a corner, a win", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_387" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, for example’s sake, let the required nature be taste or the power of tasting. The following instances are constitutive: 1. Those who do not smell, but are deprived by nature of that sense, do n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, for example’s sake, let the required nature be taste or the power of tasting. The following instances are constitutive: 1. Those who do not smell, but are deprived by nature of that sense, do not perceive or distinguish rancid or putrid food by their taste, nor garlic from roses, and the like", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_388" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, as another example, let the required nature be the communication of quality, without intermixture of substance. The instance of light will afford or constitute one species of communication, hea...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, as another example, let the required nature be the communication of quality, without intermixture of substance. The instance of light will afford or constitute one species of communication, heat and the magnet another. For the communication of light is momentary and immediately arrested upon ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_389" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In fine, the prerogative of constitutive instances is considerable, for they materially assist the definitions (especially in detail) and the divisions or partitions of natures, concerning which Plato...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In fine, the prerogative of constitutive instances is considerable, for they materially assist the definitions (especially in detail) and the divisions or partitions of natures, concerning which Plato has well said, “He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.”[117]", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_390" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXVII. In the sixth rank of prerogative instances we will place similar or proportionate instances, which we are also wont to call physical parallels, or resemblances. They are such as exhibit the res...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXVII. In the sixth rank of prerogative instances we will place similar or proportionate instances, which we are also wont to call physical parallels, or resemblances. They are such as exhibit the resemblances and connection of things, not in minor forms (as the constitutive do), but at once in the ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_391" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As an example, take the following similar instances: a mirror and the eye; the formation of the ear, and places which return an echo. From such similarity, besides observing the resemblance (which is ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As an example, take the following similar instances: a mirror and the eye; the formation of the ear, and places which return an echo. From such similarity, besides observing the resemblance (which is useful for many purposes), it is easy to collect and form this axiom. That the organs of the senses,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_392" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, wonderful as it may appear, the roots and branches of trees are similar instances. For every vegetable swells and throws out its constituent parts toward the circumference, both upward and down...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, wonderful as it may appear, the roots and branches of trees are similar instances. For every vegetable swells and throws out its constituent parts toward the circumference, both upward and downward.\nAnd there is no difference between the roots and branches, except that the root is buried in t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_393" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The gums of trees, and most rock gems, are similar instances; for both of them are exudations and filtered juices, derived in the former instance from trees, in the latter from stones; the brightness ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The gums of trees, and most rock gems, are similar instances; for both of them are exudations and filtered juices, derived in the former instance from trees, in the latter from stones; the brightness and clearness of both arising from a delicate and accurate filtering. For nearly the same reason, th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_394" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The scrotum of males and matrix of females are also similar instances; so that the noble formation which constitutes the difference of the sexes appears to differ only as to the one being internal and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The scrotum of males and matrix of females are also similar instances; so that the noble formation which constitutes the difference of the sexes appears to differ only as to the one being internal and the other external; a greater degree of heat causing the genitals to protrude in the male, while th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_395" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The fins of fishes and the feet of quadrupeds, or the feet and wings of birds, are similar instances; to which Aristotle adds the four folds in the motion of serpents;[118] so that in the formation of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The fins of fishes and the feet of quadrupeds, or the feet and wings of birds, are similar instances; to which Aristotle adds the four folds in the motion of serpents;[118] so that in the formation of the universe, the motion of animals appears to be chiefly effected by four joints or bendings.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_396" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The teeth of land animals, and the beaks of birds, are similar instances, whence it is clear, that in all perfect animals there is a determination of some hard substance toward the mouth.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The teeth of land animals, and the beaks of birds, are similar instances, whence it is clear, that in all perfect animals there is a determination of some hard substance toward the mouth.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_397" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, the resemblance and conformity of man to an inverted plant is not absurd. For the head is the root of the nerves and animal faculties, and the seminal parts are the lowest, not including the ex...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, the resemblance and conformity of man to an inverted plant is not absurd. For the head is the root of the nerves and animal faculties, and the seminal parts are the lowest, not including the extremities of the legs and arms. But in the plant, the root (which resembles the head) is regularly p", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_398" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, we must particularly recommend and suggest, that man’s present industry in the investigation and compilation of natural history be entirely changed, and directed to the reverse of the present ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, we must particularly recommend and suggest, that man’s present industry in the investigation and compilation of natural history be entirely changed, and directed to the reverse of the present system.\nFor it has hitherto been active and curious in noting the variety of things, and explaining ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_399" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, however, a severe and rigorous caution must be observed, that we only consider as similar and proportionate instances, those which (as we first observed) point out physical resemblances; that is...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, however, a severe and rigorous caution must be observed, that we only consider as similar and proportionate instances, those which (as we first observed) point out physical resemblances; that is, real and substantial resemblances, deeply founded in nature, and not casual and superficial, much ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_400" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But leaving such to themselves, similar instances are not to be neglected, in the greater portions of the world’s conformation; such as Africa and the Peruvian continent, which reaches to the Straits ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But leaving such to themselves, similar instances are not to be neglected, in the greater portions of the world’s conformation; such as Africa and the Peruvian continent, which reaches to the Straits of Magellan; both of which possess a similar isthmus and similar capes, a circumstance not to be att", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_401" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, the New and Old World are both of them broad and expanded toward the north, and narrow and pointed toward the south.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, the New and Old World are both of them broad and expanded toward the north, and narrow and pointed toward the south.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_402" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, we have very remarkable similar instances in the intense cold, toward the middle regions (as it is termed) of the air, and the violent fires which are often found to burst from subterraneous sp...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, we have very remarkable similar instances in the intense cold, toward the middle regions (as it is termed) of the air, and the violent fires which are often found to burst from subterraneous spots, the similarity consisting in both being ends and extremes; the extreme of the nature of cold, f", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_403" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, in the axioms of the sciences, there is a similarity of instances worthy of observation. Thus the rhetorical trope which is called surprise, is similar to that of music termed the declining of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, in the axioms of the sciences, there is a similarity of instances worthy of observation. Thus the rhetorical trope which is called surprise, is similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. Again--the mathematical postulate, that things which are equal to the same are equal to ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_404" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXVIII. In the seventh rank of prerogative instances, we will place singular instances, which we are also wont to call irregular or heteroclite (to borrow a term from the grammarians). They are such a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXVIII. In the seventh rank of prerogative instances, we will place singular instances, which we are also wont to call irregular or heteroclite (to borrow a term from the grammarians). They are such as exhibit bodies in the concrete, of an apparently extravagant and separate nature, agreeing but lit", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_405" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As examples of singular instances, we have the sun and moon among the heavenly bodies; the magnet among minerals; quicksilver among metals; the elephant among quadrupeds; the venereal sensation among ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As examples of singular instances, we have the sun and moon among the heavenly bodies; the magnet among minerals; quicksilver among metals; the elephant among quadrupeds; the venereal sensation among the different kinds of touch; the scent of sporting dogs among those of smell. The letter S, too, is", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_406" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXIX. In the eighth rank of prerogative instances, we will place deviating instances, such as the errors of nature, or strange and monstrous objects, in which nature deviates and turns from her ordina...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXIX. In the eighth rank of prerogative instances, we will place deviating instances, such as the errors of nature, or strange and monstrous objects, in which nature deviates and turns from her ordinary course. For the errors of nature differ from singular instances, inasmuch as the latter are the m", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_407" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They differ again from singular instances, by being much more apt for practice and the operative branch. For it would be very difficult to generate new species, but less so to vary known species, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They differ again from singular instances, by being much more apt for practice and the operative branch. For it would be very difficult to generate new species, but less so to vary known species, and thus produce many rare and unusual results.[122] The passage from the miracles of nature to those of", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_408" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXX. In the ninth rank of prerogative instances, we will place bordering instances, which we are also wont to term participants. They are such as exhibit those species of bodies which appear to be com...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXX. In the ninth rank of prerogative instances, we will place bordering instances, which we are also wont to term participants. They are such as exhibit those species of bodies which appear to be composed of two species, or to be the rudiments between the one and the other.\nThey may well be classed", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_409" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have examples of them in moss, which is something between putrescence and a plant;[123] in some comets, which hold a place between stars and ignited meteors; in flying fishes, between fishes and bi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have examples of them in moss, which is something between putrescence and a plant;[123] in some comets, which hold a place between stars and ignited meteors; in flying fishes, between fishes and birds; and in bats, between birds and quadrupeds.[124] Again,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_410" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXI. In the tenth rank of prerogative instances, we will place the instances of power, or the fasces (to borrow a term from the insignia of empire), which we are also wont to call the wit or hands of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXI. In the tenth rank of prerogative instances, we will place the instances of power, or the fasces (to borrow a term from the insignia of empire), which we are also wont to call the wit or hands of man.\nThese are such works as are most noble and perfect, and, as it were, the masterpieces in every", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_411" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor is this all: for as the understanding is elevated and raised by rare and unusual works of nature, to investigate and discover the forms which include them also, so is the same effect frequently pr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor is this all: for as the understanding is elevated and raised by rare and unusual works of nature, to investigate and discover the forms which include them also, so is the same effect frequently produced by the excellent and wonderful works of art; and even to a greater degree, because the mode o", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_412" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For there is some danger, lest the understanding should be astonished and chained down, and as it were bewitched, by such works of art, as appear to be the very summit and pinnacle of human industry, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For there is some danger, lest the understanding should be astonished and chained down, and as it were bewitched, by such works of art, as appear to be the very summit and pinnacle of human industry, so as not to become familiar with them, but rather to suppose that nothing of the kind can be accomp", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_413" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Now, on the contrary, it may be stated as a fact, that the ways and means hitherto discovered and observed, of effecting any matter or work, are for the most part of little value, and that all really ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Now, on the contrary, it may be stated as a fact, that the ways and means hitherto discovered and observed, of effecting any matter or work, are for the most part of little value, and that all really efficient power depends, and is really to be deduced from the sources of forms, none of which have y", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_414" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Thus (as we have before observed), had any one meditated on ballistic machines, and battering rams, as they were used by the ancients, whatever application he might have exerted, and though he might h...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Thus (as we have before observed), had any one meditated on ballistic machines, and battering rams, as they were used by the ancients, whatever application he might have exerted, and though he might have consumed a whole life in the pursuit, yet would he never have hit upon the invention of flaming ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_415" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Hence all the most noble discoveries have (if you observe) come to light, not by any gradual improvement and extension of the arts, but merely by chance; while nothing imitates or anticipates chance (...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Hence all the most noble discoveries have (if you observe) come to light, not by any gradual improvement and extension of the arts, but merely by chance; while nothing imitates or anticipates chance (which is wont to act at intervals of ages) but the invention of forms.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_416" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is no necessity for adducing any particular examples of these instances, since they are abundant. The plan to be pursued is this: all the mechanical, and even the liberal arts (as far as they ar...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is no necessity for adducing any particular examples of these instances, since they are abundant. The plan to be pursued is this: all the mechanical, and even the liberal arts (as far as they are practical), should be visited and thoroughly examined, and thence there should be formed a compila", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_417" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor do we confine the diligence to be used in such a compilation to the leading works and secrets only of every art, and such as excite wonder; for wonder is engendered by rarity, since that which is ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor do we confine the diligence to be used in such a compilation to the leading works and secrets only of every art, and such as excite wonder; for wonder is engendered by rarity, since that which is rare, although it be compounded of ordinary natures, always begets wonder.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_418" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "On the contrary, that which is really wonderful, from some specific difference distinguishing it from other species, is carelessly observed, if it be but familiar. Yet the singular instances of art sh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: On the contrary, that which is really wonderful, from some specific difference distinguishing it from other species, is carelessly observed, if it be but familiar. Yet the singular instances of art should be observed no less than those of nature, which we have before spoken of: and as in the latter ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_419" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For example: paper, a very common substance, is a singular instance of art; for if you consider the subject attentively, you will find that artificial substances are either woven by straight and trans...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For example: paper, a very common substance, is a singular instance of art; for if you consider the subject attentively, you will find that artificial substances are either woven by straight and transverse lines, as silk, woollen, or linen cloth, and the like; or coagulated from concrete juices, suc", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_420" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, in these instances which we term the wit and hands of man, charms and conjuring should not be altogether despised, for although mere amusements, and of little use, yet they may afford considera...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, in these instances which we term the wit and hands of man, charms and conjuring should not be altogether despised, for although mere amusements, and of little use, yet they may afford considerable information.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_421" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, superstition and magic (in its common acceptation) are not to be entirely omitted; for although they be overwhelmed by a mass of lies and fables, yet some investigation should be made, to see ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, superstition and magic (in its common acceptation) are not to be entirely omitted; for although they be overwhelmed by a mass of lies and fables, yet some investigation should be made, to see if there be really any latent natural operation in them; as in fascination, and the fortifying of th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_422" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXII. From the foregoing remarks, it is clear that the last five species of instances (the similar, singular, deviating and bordering instances, and those of power) should not be reserved for the inv...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXII. From the foregoing remarks, it is clear that the last five species of instances (the similar, singular, deviating and bordering instances, and those of power) should not be reserved for the investigation of any given nature, as the preceding and many of the succeeding instances must, but a co", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_423" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They are to be used, therefore, as a preparative, for the purpose of rectifying and purifying the understanding; for whatever withdraws it from habit, levels and planes down its surface for the recept...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They are to be used, therefore, as a preparative, for the purpose of rectifying and purifying the understanding; for whatever withdraws it from habit, levels and planes down its surface for the reception of the dry and pure light of true notions.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_424" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These instances, moreover, level and prepare the way for the operative branch, as we will mention in its proper place when speaking of the practical deductions.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These instances, moreover, level and prepare the way for the operative branch, as we will mention in its proper place when speaking of the practical deductions.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_425" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXIII. In the eleventh rank of prerogative instances we will place accompanying and hostile instances. These are such as exhibit any body or concrete, where the required nature is constantly found, a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXIII. In the eleventh rank of prerogative instances we will place accompanying and hostile instances. These are such as exhibit any body or concrete, where the required nature is constantly found, as an inseparable companion, or, on the contrary, where the required nature is constantly avoided, an", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_426" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The use of accompanying instances is to narrow the affirmative of form; for as it is narrowed by the migrating instances, where the form must necessarily be something communicated or destroyed by the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The use of accompanying instances is to narrow the affirmative of form; for as it is narrowed by the migrating instances, where the form must necessarily be something communicated or destroyed by the act of migration, so it is narrowed by accompanying instances, where the form must necessarily be so", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_427" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For example: let the required nature be heat. Flame is an accompanying instance; for in water, air, stone, metal, and many other substances, heat is variable, and can approach or retire; but all flame...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For example: let the required nature be heat. Flame is an accompanying instance; for in water, air, stone, metal, and many other substances, heat is variable, and can approach or retire; but all flame is hot, so that heat always accompanies the concretion of flame. We have no hostile instance of hea", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_428" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let solidity be the required nature. Air is a hostile instance; for metals may be liquid or solid, so may glass; even water may become solid by congelation, but air cannot become solid or lose ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let solidity be the required nature. Air is a hostile instance; for metals may be liquid or solid, so may glass; even water may become solid by congelation, but air cannot become solid or lose its fluidity.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_429" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to these instances of fixed propositions, there are two points to be observed, which are of importance. First, that if there be no universal affirmative or negative, it be carefully noted ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to these instances of fixed propositions, there are two points to be observed, which are of importance. First, that if there be no universal affirmative or negative, it be carefully noted as not existing. Thus, in heat, we have observed that there exists no universal negative, in such su", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_430" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXIV. In the twelfth rank of prerogative instances, we will class those subjunctive instances, of which we spoke in the last aphorism, and which we are also wont to call instances of extremity or lim...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXIV. In the twelfth rank of prerogative instances, we will class those subjunctive instances, of which we spoke in the last aphorism, and which we are also wont to call instances of extremity or limits; for they are not only serviceable when subjoined to fixed propositions, but also of themselves ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_431" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXV. In the thirteenth rank of prerogative instances we will place those of alliance or union. They are such as mingle and unite natures held to be heterogeneous, and observed and marked as such in r...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXV. In the thirteenth rank of prerogative instances we will place those of alliance or union. They are such as mingle and unite natures held to be heterogeneous, and observed and marked as such in received classifications.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_432" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These instances show that the operation and effect, which is considered peculiar to some one of such heterogeneous natures, may also be attributed to another nature styled heterogeneous, so as to prov...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These instances show that the operation and effect, which is considered peculiar to some one of such heterogeneous natures, may also be attributed to another nature styled heterogeneous, so as to prove that the difference of the natures is not real nor essential, but a mere modification of a common ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_433" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For example: let the required nature be heat. The classification of heat into three kinds, that of the celestial bodies, that of animals, and that of fire, appears to be settled and admitted; and thes...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For example: let the required nature be heat. The classification of heat into three kinds, that of the celestial bodies, that of animals, and that of fire, appears to be settled and admitted; and these kinds of heat, especially one of them compared with the other two, are supposed to be different, a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_434" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These differences will be found to be four in number. 1. The heat of the sun is much milder and gentler in degree than that of fire. 2. It is much more moist in quality, especially as it is transmitte...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These differences will be found to be four in number. 1. The heat of the sun is much milder and gentler in degree than that of fire. 2. It is much more moist in quality, especially as it is transmitted to us through the air. 3. Which is the chief point, it is very unequal, advancing and increased at", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_435" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required natures be motion and rest. There appears to be a settled classification, grounded on the deepest philosophy, that natural bodies either revolve, move in a straight line, or st...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required natures be motion and rest. There appears to be a settled classification, grounded on the deepest philosophy, that natural bodies either revolve, move in a straight line, or stand still and rest. For there is either motion without limit, or continuance within a certain limit,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_436" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But we have an instance of alliance in low comets, which revolve, though far below the heavens; and the fiction of Aristotle, of the comet being fixed to, or necessarily following some star, has been ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But we have an instance of alliance in low comets, which revolve, though far below the heavens; and the fiction of Aristotle, of the comet being fixed to, or necessarily following some star, has been long since exploded; not only because it is improbable in itself, but from the evident fact of the d", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_437" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Another instance of alliance is that of the motion of air, which appears to revolve from east to west within the tropics, where the circles of revolution are the greatest.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Another instance of alliance is that of the motion of air, which appears to revolve from east to west within the tropics, where the circles of revolution are the greatest.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_438" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The flow and ebb of the sea would perhaps be another instance, if the water were once found to have a motion of revolution, though slow and hardly perceptible, from east to west, subject, however, to ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The flow and ebb of the sea would perhaps be another instance, if the water were once found to have a motion of revolution, though slow and hardly perceptible, from east to west, subject, however, to a reaction twice a day. If this be so, it is clear that the motion of revolution is not confined to ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_439" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again--the supposed peculiar disposition of light bodies to rise is rather shaken; and here we may find an instance of alliance in a water bubble. For if air be placed under water, it rises rapidly to...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again--the supposed peculiar disposition of light bodies to rise is rather shaken; and here we may find an instance of alliance in a water bubble. For if air be placed under water, it rises rapidly toward the surface by that striking motion (as Democritus terms it) with which the descending water st", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_440" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be weight. It is certainly a received classification, that dense and solid bodies are borne toward the centre of the earth, and rare and light bodies to the circumferenc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be weight. It is certainly a received classification, that dense and solid bodies are borne toward the centre of the earth, and rare and light bodies to the circumference of the heavens, as their appropriate places. As far as relates to places (though these things have", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_441" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the discursive power of the mind.\nThe classification of human reason and animal instinct appears to be perfectly correct. Yet there are some instances of the actions ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the discursive power of the mind.\nThe classification of human reason and animal instinct appears to be perfectly correct. Yet there are some instances of the actions of brutes which seem to show that they, too, can syllogize. Thus it is related, that a crow, which h", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_442" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be vision. The classification appears real and certain, which considers light as that which is originally visible, and confers the power of seeing; and color, as being s...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be vision. The classification appears real and certain, which considers light as that which is originally visible, and confers the power of seeing; and color, as being secondarily visible, and not capable of being seen without light, so as to appear a mere image or mod", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_443" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXVI. In the fourteenth rank of prerogative instances, we will place the instances of the cross, borrowing our metaphor from the crosses erected where two roads meet, to point out the different direc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXVI. In the fourteenth rank of prerogative instances, we will place the instances of the cross, borrowing our metaphor from the crosses erected where two roads meet, to point out the different directions.\nWe are wont also to call them decisive and judicial instances, and in some cases instances of", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_444" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For example: let the required nature be the flow and ebb of the sea, which is repeated twice a day, at intervals of six hours between each advance and retreat, with some little difference, agreeing wi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For example: let the required nature be the flow and ebb of the sea, which is repeated twice a day, at intervals of six hours between each advance and retreat, with some little difference, agreeing with the motion of the moon. We have here the following crossways:", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_445" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This motion must be occasioned either by the advancing and the retiring of the sea, like water shaken in a basin, which leaves one side while it washes the other; or by the rising of the sea from the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This motion must be occasioned either by the advancing and the retiring of the sea, like water shaken in a basin, which leaves one side while it washes the other; or by the rising of the sea from the bottom, and its again subsiding, like boiling water. But a doubt arises, to which of these causes we", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_446" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We at length arrive, then, at an instance of the cross, which is this.\nIf it be positively discovered, that when the flood sets in toward the opposite coasts of Florida and Spain in the Atlantic, ther...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We at length arrive, then, at an instance of the cross, which is this.\nIf it be positively discovered, that when the flood sets in toward the opposite coasts of Florida and Spain in the Atlantic, there is at the same time a flood tide on the coasts of Peru and the back part of China, in the Southern", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_447" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the latter of the two motions we have supposed; namely, that of a rising and subsiding motion, if it should happen that upon diligent examination the progressive moti...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the latter of the two motions we have supposed; namely, that of a rising and subsiding motion, if it should happen that upon diligent examination the progressive motion be rejected. We have, then, three ways before us, with regard to this nature. The motion, by whic", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_448" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We at length arrive, then, at an instance of the cross, which is this: if it be found that during the ebb the surface of the waters at sea is more curved and round, from the waters rising in the middl...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We at length arrive, then, at an instance of the cross, which is this: if it be found that during the ebb the surface of the waters at sea is more curved and round, from the waters rising in the middle, and sinking at the sides or coast, and if, during a flood, it be more even and level, from the wa", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_449" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the spontaneous motion of revolution, and particularly, whether the diurnal motion, by which the sun and stars appear to us to rise and set, be a real motion of revol...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the spontaneous motion of revolution, and particularly, whether the diurnal motion, by which the sun and stars appear to us to rise and set, be a real motion of revolution in the heavenly bodies, or only apparent in them, and real in the earth.\nThere may be an insta", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_450" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be that other motion of revolution, so celebrated among astronomers, which is contrary to the diurnal, namely, from west to east--and which the ancient astronomers assig...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be that other motion of revolution, so celebrated among astronomers, which is contrary to the diurnal, namely, from west to east--and which the ancient astronomers assign to the planets, and even to the starry sphere, but Copernicus and his followers to the earth also-", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_451" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We may take the following instances of the cross upon this subject. If it be found in any history worthy of credit, that there has existed any comet, high or low, which has not revolved in manifest ha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We may take the following instances of the cross upon this subject. If it be found in any history worthy of credit, that there has existed any comet, high or low, which has not revolved in manifest harmony (however irregularly) with the diurnal motion, then we may decide so far as to allow such a mo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_452" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be weight or gravity. Heavy and ponderous bodies must, either of their own nature, tend toward the centre of the earth by their peculiar formation, or must be attracted ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be weight or gravity. Heavy and ponderous bodies must, either of their own nature, tend toward the centre of the earth by their peculiar formation, or must be attracted and hurried by the corporeal mass of the earth itself, as being an assemblage of similar bodies, and", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_453" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The following instance of the cross may be adopted. Take a clock moved by leaden weights,[131] and another by a spring, and let them be set well together, so that one be neither quicker nor slower tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The following instance of the cross may be adopted. Take a clock moved by leaden weights,[131] and another by a spring, and let them be set well together, so that one be neither quicker nor slower than the other; then let the clock moved by weights be placed on the top of a very high church, and the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_454" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the polarity of the steel needle when touched with the magnet. We have these two ways with regard to this nature--Either the touch of the magnet must communicate pola...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the polarity of the steel needle when touched with the magnet. We have these two ways with regard to this nature--Either the touch of the magnet must communicate polarity to the steel toward the north and south, or else it may only excite and prepare it, while the a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_455" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "An instance of the cross on this point might be as follows: Let a small magnetic globe be taken, and its poles marked, and placed toward the east and west, not toward the north and south, and let it c...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: An instance of the cross on this point might be as follows: Let a small magnetic globe be taken, and its poles marked, and placed toward the east and west, not toward the north and south, and let it continue thus. Then let an untouched needle be placed over it, and suffered to remain so for six or s", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_456" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the corporeal substance of the moon, whether it be rare, fiery, and aërial (as most of the ancient philosophers have thought), or solid and dense (as Gilbert and many...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the corporeal substance of the moon, whether it be rare, fiery, and aërial (as most of the ancient philosophers have thought), or solid and dense (as Gilbert and many of the moderns, with some of the ancients, hold).[132] The reasons for this latter opinion are grou", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_457" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the motion of projectiles (such as darts, arrows, and balls) through the air. The school, in its usual manner, treats this very carelessly, considering it enough to d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the motion of projectiles (such as darts, arrows, and balls) through the air. The school, in its usual manner, treats this very carelessly, considering it enough to distinguish it by the name of violent motion, from that which they term natural, and as far as regard", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_458" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the rapid and powerful motion of the explosion of gunpowder, by which such vast masses are upheaved, and such weights discharged as we observe in large mines and mort...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the rapid and powerful motion of the explosion of gunpowder, by which such vast masses are upheaved, and such weights discharged as we observe in large mines and mortars, there are two crossways before us with regard to this nature. This motion is excited either by ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_459" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Two kinds of instances of the cross might here be used--the one of very inflammable substances, such as sulphur and camphor, naphtha and the like, and their compounds, which take fire more readily and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Two kinds of instances of the cross might here be used--the one of very inflammable substances, such as sulphur and camphor, naphtha and the like, and their compounds, which take fire more readily and easily than gunpowder if left to themselves (and this shows that the effort to catch fire does not ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_460" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the transitory nature of flame and its momentaneous extinction; for to us the nature of flame does not appear to be fixed or settled, but to be generated from moment ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the transitory nature of flame and its momentaneous extinction; for to us the nature of flame does not appear to be fixed or settled, but to be generated from moment to moment, and to be every instant extinguished; it being clear that those flames which continue and", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_461" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This momentary nature either arises from the cessation of the cause which first produced it, as in light, sounds, and violent motions, as they are termed, or flame may be capable, by its own nature, o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This momentary nature either arises from the cessation of the cause which first produced it, as in light, sounds, and violent motions, as they are termed, or flame may be capable, by its own nature, of duration, but is subjected to some violence from the contrary natures which surround it, and is de", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_462" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We may therefore adopt the following instance of the cross. We see to what a height the flames rise in great conflagrations; for as the base of the flame becomes more extensive, its vertex is more lof...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We may therefore adopt the following instance of the cross. We see to what a height the flames rise in great conflagrations; for as the base of the flame becomes more extensive, its vertex is more lofty.\nIt appears, then, that the commencement of the extinction takes place at the sides, where the fl", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_463" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The instance of the cross will be more accurate, if the experiment can be made by flames of different colors. Take, therefore, a small metal sconce, and place a lighted taper in it, then put it in a b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The instance of the cross will be more accurate, if the experiment can be made by flames of different colors. Take, therefore, a small metal sconce, and place a lighted taper in it, then put it in a basin, and pour a small quantity of spirits of wine round the sconce, so as not to reach its edge, an", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_464" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let this suffice for the instances of the cross. We have dwelt the longer upon them in order gradually to teach and accustom mankind to judge of nature by these instances, and enlightening experiments...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let this suffice for the instances of the cross. We have dwelt the longer upon them in order gradually to teach and accustom mankind to judge of nature by these instances, and enlightening experiments, and not by probable reasons.[135]", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_465" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXVII. We will treat of the instances of divorce as the fifteenth of our prerogative instances. They indicate the separation of natures of the most common occurrence. They differ, however, from those...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXVII. We will treat of the instances of divorce as the fifteenth of our prerogative instances. They indicate the separation of natures of the most common occurrence. They differ, however, from those subjoined to the accompanying instances; for the instances of divorce point out the separation of a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_466" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance, let the acquired natures be those four which Telesius terms associates, and of the same family, namely, heat, light, rarity, and mobility, or promptitude to motion; yet many instances of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance, let the acquired natures be those four which Telesius terms associates, and of the same family, namely, heat, light, rarity, and mobility, or promptitude to motion; yet many instances of divorce can be discovered between them. Air is rare and easily moved, but neither hot nor light; th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_467" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required natures be corporeal nature and natural action.\nThe latter appears incapable of subsisting without some body, yet may we, perhaps, even here find an instance of divorce, as in ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required natures be corporeal nature and natural action.\nThe latter appears incapable of subsisting without some body, yet may we, perhaps, even here find an instance of divorce, as in the magnetic motion, which draws the iron to the magnet, and heavy bodies to the globe of the earth;", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_468" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXVIII. Next follow five classes of instances which we are wont to call by the general term of instances of the lamp, or of immediate information. They are such as assist the senses; for since every ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXVIII. Next follow five classes of instances which we are wont to call by the general term of instances of the lamp, or of immediate information. They are such as assist the senses; for since every interpretation of nature sets out from the senses, and leads, by a regular fixed and well-establishe", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_469" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The first of these five sets of instances of the lamp, strengthen, enlarge, and correct the immediate operations of the senses; the second reduce to the sphere of the senses such matters as are beyond...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The first of these five sets of instances of the lamp, strengthen, enlarge, and correct the immediate operations of the senses; the second reduce to the sphere of the senses such matters as are beyond it; the third indicate the continued process or series of such things and motions, as for the most ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_470" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XXXIX. In the sixteenth rank, then, of prerogative instances, we will place the instances of the door or gate, by which name we designate such as assist the immediate action of the senses. It is obvio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XXXIX. In the sixteenth rank, then, of prerogative instances, we will place the instances of the door or gate, by which name we designate such as assist the immediate action of the senses. It is obvious, that sight holds the first rank among the senses, with regard to information, for which reason w", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_471" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have an example of the first (not to speak of spectacles and the like, which only correct and remove the infirmity of a deficient sight, and therefore give no further information) in the lately inv...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have an example of the first (not to speak of spectacles and the like, which only correct and remove the infirmity of a deficient sight, and therefore give no further information) in the lately invented microscopes, which exhibit the latent and invisible minutiæ of substances, and their hidden fo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_472" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have an instance of the second kind in the telescope, discovered by the wonderful exertions of Galileo; by the assistance of which a nearer intercourse may be opened (as by boats or vessels) betwee...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have an instance of the second kind in the telescope, discovered by the wonderful exertions of Galileo; by the assistance of which a nearer intercourse may be opened (as by boats or vessels) between ourselves and the heavenly objects. For by its aid we are assured that the Milky Way is but a knot", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_473" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have instances of the third kind in measuring-rods, astrolabes, and the like, which do not enlarge, but correct and guide the sight.\nIf there be other instances which assist the other senses in the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have instances of the third kind in measuring-rods, astrolabes, and the like, which do not enlarge, but correct and guide the sight.\nIf there be other instances which assist the other senses in their immediate and individual action, yet if they add nothing further to their information they are no", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_474" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XL. In the seventeenth rank of prerogative instances we will place citing instances (to borrow a term from the tribunals), because they cite those things to appear, which have not yet appeared. We are...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XL. In the seventeenth rank of prerogative instances we will place citing instances (to borrow a term from the tribunals), because they cite those things to appear, which have not yet appeared. We are wont also to call them invoking instances, and their property is that of reducing to the sphere of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_475" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Objects escape the senses either from their distance, or the intervention of other bodies, or because they are not calculated to make an impression upon the senses, or because they are not in sufficie...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Objects escape the senses either from their distance, or the intervention of other bodies, or because they are not calculated to make an impression upon the senses, or because they are not in sufficient quantity to strike the senses, or because there is not sufficient time for their acting upon the ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_476" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There can be no reduction to the sphere of the senses in the first case, unless in the place of the object, which cannot be perceived on account of the distance, there be added or substituted some oth...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There can be no reduction to the sphere of the senses in the first case, unless in the place of the object, which cannot be perceived on account of the distance, there be added or substituted some other object, which can excite and strike the sense from a greater distance, as in the communication of", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_477" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In the second case we effect this reduction by rendering those things which are concealed by the interposition of other bodies, and which cannot easily be laid open, evident to the senses by means of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the second case we effect this reduction by rendering those things which are concealed by the interposition of other bodies, and which cannot easily be laid open, evident to the senses by means of that which lies at the surface, or proceeds from the interior; thus the state of the body is judged ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_478" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The third and fourth cases apply to many subjects, and the reduction to the sphere of the senses must be obtained from every quarter in the investigation of things. There are many examples. It is obvi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The third and fourth cases apply to many subjects, and the reduction to the sphere of the senses must be obtained from every quarter in the investigation of things. There are many examples. It is obvious that air, and spirit, and the like, whose whole substance is extremely rare and delicate, can ne", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_479" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the required nature, therefore, be the action and motion of the spirit inclosed in tangible bodies; for every tangible body with which we are acquainted contains an invisible and intangible spirit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the required nature, therefore, be the action and motion of the spirit inclosed in tangible bodies; for every tangible body with which we are acquainted contains an invisible and intangible spirit, over which it is drawn, and which it seems to clothe. This spirit being emitted from a tangible su", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_480" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For in every tangible and inanimate body the inclosed spirit at first increases, and as it were feeds on the tangible parts which are most open and prepared for it; and when it has digested and modifi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For in every tangible and inanimate body the inclosed spirit at first increases, and as it were feeds on the tangible parts which are most open and prepared for it; and when it has digested and modified them, and turned them into spirit, it escapes with them. This formation and increase of spirit is", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_481" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "On the contrary, when the spirit is retained, and yet expanded and excited by heat or the like (which happens in solid and tenacious bodies), then the bodies are softened, as in hot iron; or flow, as ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: On the contrary, when the spirit is retained, and yet expanded and excited by heat or the like (which happens in solid and tenacious bodies), then the bodies are softened, as in hot iron; or flow, as in metals; or melt, as in gums, wax, and the like. The contrary effects of heat, therefore (hardenin", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_482" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But when the spirit is neither entirely retained nor emitted, but only strives and exercises itself, within its limits, and meets with tangible parts, which obey and readily follow it wherever it lead...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But when the spirit is neither entirely retained nor emitted, but only strives and exercises itself, within its limits, and meets with tangible parts, which obey and readily follow it wherever it leads them, then follows the formation of an organic body, and of limbs, and the other vital actions of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_483" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, the difference of spirit which is important and of effect in many points (as unconnected spirit, branching spirit, branching and cellular spirit, the first of which is that of all inanimate sub...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, the difference of spirit which is important and of effect in many points (as unconnected spirit, branching spirit, branching and cellular spirit, the first of which is that of all inanimate substances, the second of vegetables, and the third of animals), is placed, as it were, before the eyes", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_484" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, it is clear that the more refined tissue and conformation of things (though forming the whole body of visible or tangible objects) are neither visible nor tangible. Our information, therefore, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, it is clear that the more refined tissue and conformation of things (though forming the whole body of visible or tangible objects) are neither visible nor tangible. Our information, therefore, must here also be derived from reduction to the sphere of the senses. But the most radical and prima", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_485" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the required nature then be the expansion or coherence of matter in different bodies, or the quantity of matter relative to the dimensions of each. For there is nothing in nature more true than th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the required nature then be the expansion or coherence of matter in different bodies, or the quantity of matter relative to the dimensions of each. For there is nothing in nature more true than the twofold proposition--that nothing proceeds from nothing and that nothing is reduced to nothing, bu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_486" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This third assertion may be considered as being also sufficiently certain; namely, that the greater or less quantity of matter in this or that body, may, by comparison, be reduced to calculation, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This third assertion may be considered as being also sufficiently certain; namely, that the greater or less quantity of matter in this or that body, may, by comparison, be reduced to calculation, and exact, or nearly exact, proportion. Thus, if one should say that there is such an accumulation of ma", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_487" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The accumulation of matter, however, and its relative quantity, are rendered sensible by weight; for weight is proportionate to the quantity of matter, as regards the parts of a tangible substance, bu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The accumulation of matter, however, and its relative quantity, are rendered sensible by weight; for weight is proportionate to the quantity of matter, as regards the parts of a tangible substance, but spirit and its quantity of matter are not to be computed by weight, which spirit rather diminishes", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_488" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have made a tolerably accurate table of weight, in which we have selected the weights and size of all the metals, the principal minerals, stones, liquids, oils, and many other natural and artificia...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have made a tolerably accurate table of weight, in which we have selected the weights and size of all the metals, the principal minerals, stones, liquids, oils, and many other natural and artificial bodies: a very useful proceeding both as regards theory and practice, and which is capable of reve", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_489" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have also thought it deserving our industry, to try if we could arrive at the ratio of intangible or pneumatic bodies to tangible bodies, which we attempted by the following contrivance. We took a ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have also thought it deserving our industry, to try if we could arrive at the ratio of intangible or pneumatic bodies to tangible bodies, which we attempted by the following contrivance. We took a vial capable of containing about an ounce, using a small vessel in order to effect the subsequent ev", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_490" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be heat or cold, of such a degree as not to be sensible from its weakness. They are rendered sensible by the thermometer, as we described it above;[139] for the cold and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be heat or cold, of such a degree as not to be sensible from its weakness. They are rendered sensible by the thermometer, as we described it above;[139] for the cold and heat are not actually perceived by the touch, but heat expands and cold contracts the air. Nor, aga", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_491" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, let the required nature be the mixture of bodies; namely, how much aqueous, oleaginous or spirituous, ashy or salt parts they contain; or, as a particular example, how much butter, cheese, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, let the required nature be the mixture of bodies; namely, how much aqueous, oleaginous or spirituous, ashy or salt parts they contain; or, as a particular example, how much butter, cheese, and whey there is in milk, and the like. These things are rendered sensible by artificial and skilful se", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_492" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "So, in general, all delicate experiments on natural or artificial bodies, by which the genuine are distinguished from the adulterated, and the better from the more common, should be referred to this d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: So, in general, all delicate experiments on natural or artificial bodies, by which the genuine are distinguished from the adulterated, and the better from the more common, should be referred to this division; for they bring that which is not the object of the senses within their sphere. They are the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_493" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to the fifth cause of objects escaping our senses, it is clear that the action of the sense takes place by motion, and this motion is time. If, therefore, the motion of any body be either ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to the fifth cause of objects escaping our senses, it is clear that the action of the sense takes place by motion, and this motion is time. If, therefore, the motion of any body be either so slow or so swift as not to be proportioned to the necessary momentum which operates on the senses", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_494" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The sixth case, where the sense is impeded by the power of the object, admits of a reduction to the sensible sphere, either by removing the object to a greater distance, or by deadening its effects by...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The sixth case, where the sense is impeded by the power of the object, admits of a reduction to the sensible sphere, either by removing the object to a greater distance, or by deadening its effects by the interposition of a medium, which may weaken and not destroy the object; or by the admission of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_495" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The seventh case, where the senses are so overcharged with the object as to leave no further room, scarcely occurs except in the smell or taste, and is not of much consequence as regards our present s...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The seventh case, where the senses are so overcharged with the object as to leave no further room, scarcely occurs except in the smell or taste, and is not of much consequence as regards our present subject.\nLet what we have said, therefore, suffice with regard to the reduction to the sensible spher", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_496" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Sometimes, however, this reduction is not extended to the senses of man, but to those of some other animal, whose senses, in some points, exceed those of man; as (with regard to some scents) to that o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Sometimes, however, this reduction is not extended to the senses of man, but to those of some other animal, whose senses, in some points, exceed those of man; as (with regard to some scents) to that of the dog, and with regard to light existing imperceptibly in the air, when not illuminated from any", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_497" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, too, we would observe, that we at present discuss only the wants of the senses, and their remedies; for their deceptions must be referred to the inquiries appropriated to the senses, and sensibl...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, too, we would observe, that we at present discuss only the wants of the senses, and their remedies; for their deceptions must be referred to the inquiries appropriated to the senses, and sensible objects; except that important deception, which makes them define objects in their relation to man", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_498" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLI. In the eighteenth rank of prerogative instances we will class the instances of the road, which we are also wont to call itinerant and jointed instances. They are such as indicate the gradually co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLI. In the eighteenth rank of prerogative instances we will class the instances of the road, which we are also wont to call itinerant and jointed instances. They are such as indicate the gradually continued motions of nature. This species of instances escapes rather our observation than our senses;", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_499" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The same must be attempted with inanimate objects, which we have ourselves done by inquiring into the opening of liquids by fire.\nFor the mode in which water expands is different from that observed in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The same must be attempted with inanimate objects, which we have ourselves done by inquiring into the opening of liquids by fire.\nFor the mode in which water expands is different from that observed in wine, vinegar, or verjuice, and very different, again, from that observed in milk and oil, and the ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_500" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLII. In the nineteenth rank of prerogative instances we will class supplementary or substitutive instances, which we are also wont to call instances of refuge. They are such as supply information, wh...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLII. In the nineteenth rank of prerogative instances we will class supplementary or substitutive instances, which we are also wont to call instances of refuge. They are such as supply information, where the senses are entirely deficient, and we therefore have recourse to them when appropriate insta", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_501" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Substitution by analogy is useful, but less sure, and therefore to be adopted with some judgment. It serves to reduce that which is not the object of the senses to their sphere, not by the perceptible...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Substitution by analogy is useful, but less sure, and therefore to be adopted with some judgment. It serves to reduce that which is not the object of the senses to their sphere, not by the perceptible operations of the imperceptible body, but by the consideration of some similar perceptible body. Fo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_502" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, if the inquiry do not relate to perfect mixtures of spirits, but merely to their composition, as whether they easily incorporate with each other, or there be rather (as an example) certain wind...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, if the inquiry do not relate to perfect mixtures of spirits, but merely to their composition, as whether they easily incorporate with each other, or there be rather (as an example) certain winds and exhalations, or other spiritual bodies, which do not mix with common air, but only adhere to a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_503" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And although we have observed of these supplementary instances, that information is to be derived from them, when appropriate instances are wanting, by way of refuge, yet we would have it understood, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And although we have observed of these supplementary instances, that information is to be derived from them, when appropriate instances are wanting, by way of refuge, yet we would have it understood, that they are also of great use, when the appropriate instances are at hand, in order to confirm the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_504" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLIII. In the twentieth rank of prerogative instances we will place lancing instances, which we are also wont (but for a different reason) to call twitching instances. We adopt the latter name, becaus...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLIII. In the twentieth rank of prerogative instances we will place lancing instances, which we are also wont (but for a different reason) to call twitching instances. We adopt the latter name, because they twitch the understanding, and the former because they pierce nature, whence we style them occ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_505" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To these lancing instances, however, we are wont, not without some advantage, to add those which we call the limits of such instances.\nThus, in the cases we have pointed out, one action does not distu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To these lancing instances, however, we are wont, not without some advantage, to add those which we call the limits of such instances.\nThus, in the cases we have pointed out, one action does not disturb or impede another of a different nature, yet those of a similar nature subdue and extinguish each", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_506" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLIV. We have now spoken of the instances which assist the senses, and which are principally of service as regards information; for information begins from the senses. But our whole labor terminates i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLIV. We have now spoken of the instances which assist the senses, and which are principally of service as regards information; for information begins from the senses. But our whole labor terminates in practice, and as the former is the beginning, so is the latter the end of our subject. The followi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_507" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Practice is laborious either from the multitude of instruments, or the bulk of matter and substances requisite for any given work. Those instances, therefore, are valuable, which either direct practic...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Practice is laborious either from the multitude of instruments, or the bulk of matter and substances requisite for any given work. Those instances, therefore, are valuable, which either direct practice to that which is of most consequence to mankind, or lessen the number of instruments or of matter ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_508" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLV. In the twenty-first rank of prerogative instances we will place the instances of the rod or rule, which we are also wont to call the instances of completion or _non ultrà_. For the powers and mot...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLV. In the twenty-first rank of prerogative instances we will place the instances of the rod or rule, which we are also wont to call the instances of completion or _non ultrà_. For the powers and motions of bodies do not act and take effect through indefinite and accidental, but through limited and", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_509" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Many powers act and take effect only by actual touch, as in the percussion of bodies, where the one does not remove the other, unless the impelling touch the impelled body. External applications in me...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Many powers act and take effect only by actual touch, as in the percussion of bodies, where the one does not remove the other, unless the impelling touch the impelled body. External applications in medicine, as ointment and plasters, do not exercise their efficacy except when in contact with the bod", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_510" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Other powers act at a distance, though it be very small, of which but few have as yet been noted, although there be more than men suspect; this happens (to take everyday instances) when amber or jet a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Other powers act at a distance, though it be very small, of which but few have as yet been noted, although there be more than men suspect; this happens (to take everyday instances) when amber or jet attracts straws, bubbles dissolve bubbles, some purgative medicines draw humors from above, and the l", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_511" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, if there be any magnetic force which acts by sympathy between the globe of the earth and heavy bodies, or between that of the moon and the waters of the sea (as seems most probable from the par...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, if there be any magnetic force which acts by sympathy between the globe of the earth and heavy bodies, or between that of the moon and the waters of the sea (as seems most probable from the particular floods and ebbs which occur twice in the month), or between the starry sphere and the planet", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_512" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, some conflagrations and the kindling of flames take place at very considerable distances with particular substances, as they report of the naphtha of Babylon. Heat, too, insinuates itself at wi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, some conflagrations and the kindling of flames take place at very considerable distances with particular substances, as they report of the naphtha of Babylon. Heat, too, insinuates itself at wide distances, as does also cold, so that the masses of ice which are broken off and float upon the N", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_513" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Yet all these powers, whether acting at a small or great distance, certainly act within definite distances, which are well ascertained by nature, so that there is a limit depending either on the mass ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Yet all these powers, whether acting at a small or great distance, certainly act within definite distances, which are well ascertained by nature, so that there is a limit depending either on the mass or quantity of the bodies, the vigor or faintness of the powers, or the favorable or impeding nature", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_514" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Some motions and virtues are to be found of a directly contrary nature to these, which act in contact but not at a distance; namely, such as operate at a distance and not in contact, and again act wit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Some motions and virtues are to be found of a directly contrary nature to these, which act in contact but not at a distance; namely, such as operate at a distance and not in contact, and again act with less force at a less distance, and the reverse. Sight, for instance, is not easily effective in co", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_515" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is another measure of motion in space which must not be passed over, not relating to progressive but spherical motion--that is, the expansion of bodies into a greater, or their contraction into ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is another measure of motion in space which must not be passed over, not relating to progressive but spherical motion--that is, the expansion of bodies into a greater, or their contraction into a lesser sphere. For in our measure of this motion we must inquire what degree of compression or ext", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_516" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have proved this by a more delicate experiment. We took a metal bell, of a light and thin sort, such as is used for salt-cellars, and immersed it in a basin of water, so as to carry the air contain...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have proved this by a more delicate experiment. We took a metal bell, of a light and thin sort, such as is used for salt-cellars, and immersed it in a basin of water, so as to carry the air contained in its interior down with it to the bottom of the basin. We had first, however, placed a small gl", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_517" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To prove, also, the extension (as well as the compression) which air admits of, we adopted the following method:--We took a glass egg, with a small hole at one end; we drew out the air by violent suct...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To prove, also, the extension (as well as the compression) which air admits of, we adopted the following method:--We took a glass egg, with a small hole at one end; we drew out the air by violent suction at this hole, and then closed the hole with the finger, immersed the egg in water, and then remo", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_518" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is well ascertained that rare bodies (such as air) admit of considerable contraction, as has been before observed; but tangible bodies (such as water) admit of it much less readily, and to a less e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is well ascertained that rare bodies (such as air) admit of considerable contraction, as has been before observed; but tangible bodies (such as water) admit of it much less readily, and to a less extent. We investigated the latter point by the following experiment:", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_519" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We had a leaden globe made, capable of containing about two pints, wine measure, and of tolerable thickness, so as to support considerable pressure. We poured water into it through an aperture, which ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We had a leaden globe made, capable of containing about two pints, wine measure, and of tolerable thickness, so as to support considerable pressure. We poured water into it through an aperture, which we afterward closed with melted lead, as soon as the globe was filled with water, so that the whole ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_520" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The more solid, dry or compact bodies, such as stones, wood and metals, admit of much less, and indeed scarcely any perceptible compression or expansion, but escape by breaking, slipping forward, or o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The more solid, dry or compact bodies, such as stones, wood and metals, admit of much less, and indeed scarcely any perceptible compression or expansion, but escape by breaking, slipping forward, or other efforts; as appears in bending wood, or steel for watch-springs, in projectiles, hammering and ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_521" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLVI. In the twenty-second rank of prerogative instances we will place the instances of the course, which we are also wont to call water instances, borrowing our expression from the water hour-glasses...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLVI. In the twenty-second rank of prerogative instances we will place the instances of the course, which we are also wont to call water instances, borrowing our expression from the water hour-glasses employed by the ancients instead of those with sand. They are such as measure nature by the moments", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_522" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In the first place, then, we see that the return of the heavenly bodies to the same place takes place in regular times, as does the flood and ebb of the sea. The descent of heavy bodies toward the ear...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the first place, then, we see that the return of the heavenly bodies to the same place takes place in regular times, as does the flood and ebb of the sea. The descent of heavy bodies toward the earth, and the ascent of light bodies toward the heavenly sphere, take place in definite times,[147] ac", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_523" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In the explosion of several cannon at once (which are sometimes heard at the distance of thirty miles), the sound of those nearest to the spot is heard before that of the most distant. Even in sight (...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the explosion of several cannon at once (which are sometimes heard at the distance of thirty miles), the sound of those nearest to the spot is heard before that of the most distant. Even in sight (whose action is most rapid), it is clear that a definite time is necessary for its exertion, which i", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_524" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This last instance, and others of a like nature, have sometimes excited in us a most marvellous doubt, no less than whether the image of the sky and stars is perceived as at the actual moment of its e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This last instance, and others of a like nature, have sometimes excited in us a most marvellous doubt, no less than whether the image of the sky and stars is perceived as at the actual moment of its existence, or rather a little after, and whether there is not (with regard to the visible appearance ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_525" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is not merely the absolute, but still more the relative measure of motions and actions which must be inquired into, for this latter is of great use and application. We perceive that the flame of fi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is not merely the absolute, but still more the relative measure of motions and actions which must be inquired into, for this latter is of great use and application. We perceive that the flame of firearms is seen sooner than the sound is heard, although the ball must have struck the air before the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_526" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "An example of our present point (the relative measure of motion), and, at the same time, of its remarkable use of which we have spoken, is conspicuous in mines filled with gunpowder, where immense wei...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: An example of our present point (the relative measure of motion), and, at the same time, of its remarkable use of which we have spoken, is conspicuous in mines filled with gunpowder, where immense weights of earth, buildings, and the like, are overthrown and prostrated by a small quantity of powder;", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_527" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In short, this point is one of the principal foundations of the magic experiments (of which we shall presently speak), where a small mass of matter overcomes and regulates a much larger, if there but ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In short, this point is one of the principal foundations of the magic experiments (of which we shall presently speak), where a small mass of matter overcomes and regulates a much larger, if there but be an anticipation of motion, by the velocity of one before the other is prepared to act.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_528" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Finally, the point of the first and last should be observed in all natural actions. Thus, in an infusion of rhubarb the purgative property is first extracted, and then the astringent; we have experien...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Finally, the point of the first and last should be observed in all natural actions. Thus, in an infusion of rhubarb the purgative property is first extracted, and then the astringent; we have experienced something of the same kind in steeping violets in vinegar, which first extracts the sweet and de", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_529" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLVII. In the twenty-third rank of prerogative instances we will place instances of quantity, which we are also wont to call the doses of nature (borrowing a word from medicine). They are such as meas...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLVII. In the twenty-third rank of prerogative instances we will place instances of quantity, which we are also wont to call the doses of nature (borrowing a word from medicine). They are such as measure the powers by the quantity of bodies, and point out the effect of the quantity in the degree of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_530" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Here, too, we must not rest contented with a vague result, but inquire into the exact proportion of quantity requisite for a particular exertion of power; for one would be apt to suppose that the powe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Here, too, we must not rest contented with a vague result, but inquire into the exact proportion of quantity requisite for a particular exertion of power; for one would be apt to suppose that the power bears an exact proportion to the quantity; that if a leaden bullet of one ounce, for instance, wou", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_531" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, we must in all our investigations of nature observe what quantity, or dose, of the body is requisite for a given effect, and must at the same time be guarded against estimating it at too much ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, we must in all our investigations of nature observe what quantity, or dose, of the body is requisite for a given effect, and must at the same time be guarded against estimating it at too much or too little.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_532" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLVIII. In the twenty-fourth rank of prerogative instances we will place wrestling instances, which we are also wont to call instances of predominance. They are such as point out the predominance and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLVIII. In the twenty-fourth rank of prerogative instances we will place wrestling instances, which we are also wont to call instances of predominance. They are such as point out the predominance and submission of powers compared with each other, and which of them is the more energetic and superior,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_533" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the first motion be that of the resistance of matter, which exists in every particle, and completely prevents its annihilation; so that no conflagration, weight, pressure, violence, or length of t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the first motion be that of the resistance of matter, which exists in every particle, and completely prevents its annihilation; so that no conflagration, weight, pressure, violence, or length of time can reduce even the smallest portion of matter to nothing, or prevent it from being something, a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_534" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the second motion be that which we term the motion of connection, by which bodies do not allow themselves to be separated at any point from the contact of another body, delighting, as it were, in ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the second motion be that which we term the motion of connection, by which bodies do not allow themselves to be separated at any point from the contact of another body, delighting, as it were, in the mutual connection and contact. This is called by the schools a motion to prevent a vacuum. It ta", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_535" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the third be that which we term the motion of liberty, by which bodies strive to deliver themselves from any unnatural pressure or tension, and to restore themselves to the dimensions suited to th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the third be that which we term the motion of liberty, by which bodies strive to deliver themselves from any unnatural pressure or tension, and to restore themselves to the dimensions suited to their mass; and of which, also, there are innumerable examples. Thus, we have examples of their escapi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_536" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We do not, therefore, arrive at a penetration of dimensions or a vacuum before the extremes of condensation and rarefaction, while the motion we speak of stops and exerts itself much within them, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We do not, therefore, arrive at a penetration of dimensions or a vacuum before the extremes of condensation and rarefaction, while the motion we speak of stops and exerts itself much within them, and is nothing more than a desire of bodies to preserve their specific density (or, if it be preferred, ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_537" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the fourth be that which we term the motion of matter, and which is opposed to the last; for in the motion of liberty, bodies abhor, reject, and avoid, a new size or volume, or any new expansion o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the fourth be that which we term the motion of matter, and which is opposed to the last; for in the motion of liberty, bodies abhor, reject, and avoid, a new size or volume, or any new expansion or contraction (for these different terms have the same meaning), and strive, with all their power, t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_538" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the fifth be that which we term the motion of continuity. We do not understand by this simple and primary continuity with any other body (for that is the motion of connection), but the continuity ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the fifth be that which we term the motion of continuity. We do not understand by this simple and primary continuity with any other body (for that is the motion of connection), but the continuity of a particular body in itself; for it is most certain that all bodies abhor a solution of continuit", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_539" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the sixth be that which we term the motion of acquisition, or the motion of need.[151] It is that by which bodies placed among others of a heterogeneous and, as it were, hostile nature, if they me...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the sixth be that which we term the motion of acquisition, or the motion of need.[151] It is that by which bodies placed among others of a heterogeneous and, as it were, hostile nature, if they meet with the means or opportunity of avoiding them, and uniting themselves with others of a more anal", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_540" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Hence an excellent rule is derived for the opening and dissolution of bodies; for (not to mention corrosive and strong waters, which force their way) if a body can be found which is more adapted, suit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Hence an excellent rule is derived for the opening and dissolution of bodies; for (not to mention corrosive and strong waters, which force their way) if a body can be found which is more adapted, suited, and friendly to a given solid, than that with which it is by some necessity united, the given so", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_541" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the seventh be that which we term the motion of greater congregation, by which bodies are borne toward masses of a similar nature, for instance, heavy bodies toward the earth, light to the sphere ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the seventh be that which we term the motion of greater congregation, by which bodies are borne toward masses of a similar nature, for instance, heavy bodies toward the earth, light to the sphere of heaven. The schools termed this natural motion, by a superficial consideration of it, because pro", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_542" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the eighth be that which we term the motion of lesser congregation, by which the homogeneous parts in any body separate themselves from the heterogeneous and unite together, and whole bodies of a ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the eighth be that which we term the motion of lesser congregation, by which the homogeneous parts in any body separate themselves from the heterogeneous and unite together, and whole bodies of a similar substance coalesce and tend toward each other, and are sometimes congregated, attracted, and", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_543" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This motion is usually confined in the three following manners: by the torpor of the bodies; by the power of the predominating body; by external motion. With regard to the first, it is certain that th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This motion is usually confined in the three following manners: by the torpor of the bodies; by the power of the predominating body; by external motion. With regard to the first, it is certain that there is more or less sluggishness in tangible bodies, and an abhorrence of locomotion; so that unless", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_544" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The confinement of the motion of lesser congregation, which arises from the power of the predominant body, is shown in the decomposition of blood and urine by cold. For as long as these substances are...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The confinement of the motion of lesser congregation, which arises from the power of the predominant body, is shown in the decomposition of blood and urine by cold. For as long as these substances are filled with the active spirit, which regulates and restrains each of their component parts, as the ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_545" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The confinement of the motion of lesser congregation, which arises from external motion, is very evident in that agitation of bodies which preserves them from putrefaction. For all putrefaction depend...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The confinement of the motion of lesser congregation, which arises from external motion, is very evident in that agitation of bodies which preserves them from putrefaction. For all putrefaction depends on the congregation of the homogeneous parts, whence, by degrees, there ensues a corruption of the", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_546" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We must not omit that union of the parts of bodies which is the principal cause of induration and desiccation. When the spirit or moisture, which has evaporated into spirit, has escaped from a porous ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We must not omit that union of the parts of bodies which is the principal cause of induration and desiccation. When the spirit or moisture, which has evaporated into spirit, has escaped from a porous body (such as wood, bone, parchment, and the like), the thicker parts are drawn together, and united", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_547" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Union from a distance is rare, and yet is to be met with in more instances than are generally observed. We perceive it when one bubble dissolves another, when medicines attract humors from a similarit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Union from a distance is rare, and yet is to be met with in more instances than are generally observed. We perceive it when one bubble dissolves another, when medicines attract humors from a similarity of substance, when one string moves another in unison with it on different instruments, and the li", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_548" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the ninth be the magnetic motion, which, although of the nature of that last mentioned, yet, when operating at great distances, and on great masses, deserves a separate inquiry, especially if it n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the ninth be the magnetic motion, which, although of the nature of that last mentioned, yet, when operating at great distances, and on great masses, deserves a separate inquiry, especially if it neither begin in contact, as most motions of congregation do, nor end by bringing the substances into", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_549" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the tenth motion be that of avoidance, or that which is opposed to the motion of lesser congregation, by which bodies, with a kind of antipathy, avoid and disperse, and separate themselves from, o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the tenth motion be that of avoidance, or that which is opposed to the motion of lesser congregation, by which bodies, with a kind of antipathy, avoid and disperse, and separate themselves from, or refuse to unite themselves with others of a hostile nature. For although this may sometimes appear", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_550" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is very conspicuous in the excrements of animals, nor less, perhaps, in objects odious to particular senses, especially the smell and taste; for a fetid smell is rejected by the nose, so as to prod...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is very conspicuous in the excrements of animals, nor less, perhaps, in objects odious to particular senses, especially the smell and taste; for a fetid smell is rejected by the nose, so as to produce a sympathetic motion of expulsion at the mouth of the stomach; a bitter and rough taste is rejec", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_551" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the eleventh motion be that of assimilation, or self-multiplication, or simple generation, by which latter term we do not mean the simple generation of integral bodies, such as plants or animals, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the eleventh motion be that of assimilation, or self-multiplication, or simple generation, by which latter term we do not mean the simple generation of integral bodies, such as plants or animals, but of homogeneous bodies. By this motion homogeneous bodies convert those which are allied to them,", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_552" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor should we, in speaking of assimilation, neglect to mention the accretion which is usually distinguished from aliment, and which is observed when mud grows into a mass between stones, and is conver...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor should we, in speaking of assimilation, neglect to mention the accretion which is usually distinguished from aliment, and which is observed when mud grows into a mass between stones, and is converted into a stony substance, and the scaly substance round the teeth is converted into one no less ha", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_553" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the twelfth motion be that of excitement, which appears to be a species of the last, and is sometimes mentioned by us under that name. It is, like that, a diffusive, communicative, transitive and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the twelfth motion be that of excitement, which appears to be a species of the last, and is sometimes mentioned by us under that name. It is, like that, a diffusive, communicative, transitive and multiplying motion; and they agree remarkably in their effect, although they differ in their mode of", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_554" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the thirteenth motion be that of impression, which is also a species of motion of assimilation, and the most subtile of diffusive motions. We have thought it right, however, to consider it as a di...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the thirteenth motion be that of impression, which is also a species of motion of assimilation, and the most subtile of diffusive motions. We have thought it right, however, to consider it as a distinct species, on account of its remarkable difference from the last two; for the simple motion of ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_555" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the fourteenth motion be that configuration or position, by which bodies appear to desire a peculiar situation, collocation, and configuration with others, rather than union or separation. This is...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the fourteenth motion be that configuration or position, by which bodies appear to desire a peculiar situation, collocation, and configuration with others, rather than union or separation. This is a very abstruse notion, and has not been well investigated; and, in some instances, appears to occu", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_556" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the fifteenth motion be that of transmission or of passage, by which the powers of bodies are more or less impeded or advanced by the medium, according to the nature of the bodies and their effect...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the fifteenth motion be that of transmission or of passage, by which the powers of bodies are more or less impeded or advanced by the medium, according to the nature of the bodies and their effective powers, and also according to that of the medium. For one medium is adapted to light, another to", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_557" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the sixteenth be that which we term the royal or political motion, by which the predominant and governing parts of any body check, subdue, reduce, and regulate the others, and force them to unite,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the sixteenth be that which we term the royal or political motion, by which the predominant and governing parts of any body check, subdue, reduce, and regulate the others, and force them to unite, separate, stand still, move, or assume a certain position, not from any inclination of their own, b", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_558" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the seventeenth motion be the spontaneous motion of revolution, by which bodies having a tendency to move, and placed in a favorable situation, enjoy their peculiar nature, pursuing themselves and...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the seventeenth motion be the spontaneous motion of revolution, by which bodies having a tendency to move, and placed in a favorable situation, enjoy their peculiar nature, pursuing themselves and nothing else, and seeking, as it were, to embrace themselves. For bodies seem either to move withou", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_559" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the eighteenth motion be that of trepidation,[160] to which (in the sense assigned to it by astronomers) we do not give much credit; but in our serious and general search after the tendencies of n...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the eighteenth motion be that of trepidation,[160] to which (in the sense assigned to it by astronomers) we do not give much credit; but in our serious and general search after the tendencies of natural bodies, this motion occurs, and appears worthy of forming a distinct species. It is the motio", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_560" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Let the nineteenth and last motion be one which can scarcely be termed a motion, and yet is one; and which we may call the motion of repose, or of abhorrence of motion. It is by this motion that the e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Let the nineteenth and last motion be one which can scarcely be termed a motion, and yet is one; and which we may call the motion of repose, or of abhorrence of motion. It is by this motion that the earth stands by its own weight, while its extremes move toward the middle, not to an imaginary centre", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_561" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have now, therefore, exhibited the species, or simple elements of the motions, tendencies, and active powers, which are most universal in nature; and no small portion of natural science has been th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have now, therefore, exhibited the species, or simple elements of the motions, tendencies, and active powers, which are most universal in nature; and no small portion of natural science has been thus sketched out. We do not, however, deny that other instances can perhaps be added, and our divisio", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_562" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For of the motions here laid down, some are quite invincible, some more powerful than others, which they confine, check, and modify; others extend to a greater distance, others are more immediate and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For of the motions here laid down, some are quite invincible, some more powerful than others, which they confine, check, and modify; others extend to a greater distance, others are more immediate and swift, others strengthen, increase, and accelerate the rest.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_563" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The motion of resistance is most adamantine and invincible. We are yet in doubt whether such be the nature of that of connection; for we cannot with certainty determine whether there be a vacuum, eith...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The motion of resistance is most adamantine and invincible. We are yet in doubt whether such be the nature of that of connection; for we cannot with certainty determine whether there be a vacuum, either extensive or intermixed with matter. Of one thing, however, we are satisfied, that the reason ass", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_564" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For instance; some armed magnets hold and support iron of sixty times their own weight; so far does the motion of lesser congregation predominate over that of the greater; but if the weight be increas...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For instance; some armed magnets hold and support iron of sixty times their own weight; so far does the motion of lesser congregation predominate over that of the greater; but if the weight be increased, it yields. A lever of a certain strength will raise a given weight, and so far the motion of lib", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_565" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The methods and nature of this yielding must also be diligently examined, as for instance, whether the motions completely cease, or exert themselves, but are constrained. For in the bodies with which ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The methods and nature of this yielding must also be diligently examined, as for instance, whether the motions completely cease, or exert themselves, but are constrained. For in the bodies with which we are acquainted, there is no real but an apparent rest, either in the whole or in parts. This appa", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_566" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The rules of such instances of predominance as occur should be collected: such as the following; the more general the desired advantage is, the stronger will be the motion; the motion of connection, f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The rules of such instances of predominance as occur should be collected: such as the following; the more general the desired advantage is, the stronger will be the motion; the motion of connection, for instance, which relates to the intercourse of the parts of the universe, is more powerful than th", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_567" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "XLIX. In the twenty-fifth rank of prerogative instances we will place suggesting instances; such as suggest, or point out, that which is advantageous to mankind; for bare power and knowledge in themse...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: XLIX. In the twenty-fifth rank of prerogative instances we will place suggesting instances; such as suggest, or point out, that which is advantageous to mankind; for bare power and knowledge in themselves exalt rather than enrich human nature. We must, therefore, select from the general store such t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_568" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "L. In the twenty-sixth rank of prerogative instances we will place the generally useful instances. They are such as relate to various points, and frequently occur, sparing by that means considerable l...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: L. In the twenty-sixth rank of prerogative instances we will place the generally useful instances. They are such as relate to various points, and frequently occur, sparing by that means considerable labor and new trials. The proper place for treating of instruments and contrivances, will be that in ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_569" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Man acts, then, upon natural bodies (besides merely bringing them together or removing them) by seven principal methods: 1, by the exclusion of all that impedes and disturbs; 2, by compression, extens...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Man acts, then, upon natural bodies (besides merely bringing them together or removing them) by seven principal methods: 1, by the exclusion of all that impedes and disturbs; 2, by compression, extension, agitation, and the like; 3, by heat and cold; 4, by detention in a suitable place; 5, by checki", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_570" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "1. With regard to the first--common air, which is always at hand, and forces its admission, as also the rays of the heavenly bodies, create much disturbance. Whatever, therefore, tends to exclude them...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 1. With regard to the first--common air, which is always at hand, and forces its admission, as also the rays of the heavenly bodies, create much disturbance. Whatever, therefore, tends to exclude them may well be considered as generally useful. The substance and thickness of vessels in which bodies ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_571" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Another advantage of the careful and hermetical closing of bodies is this--not only the admission of external air is prevented (of which we have treated), but the spirit of bodies also is prevented fr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Another advantage of the careful and hermetical closing of bodies is this--not only the admission of external air is prevented (of which we have treated), but the spirit of bodies also is prevented from making its escape, which is an internal operation. For any one operating on natural bodies must b", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_572" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "2. With regard to the second of the seven above-mentioned methods, we must especially observe, that compression and similar violence have a most powerful effect either in producing locomotion, and oth...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 2. With regard to the second of the seven above-mentioned methods, we must especially observe, that compression and similar violence have a most powerful effect either in producing locomotion, and other motions of the same nature, as may be observed in engines and projectiles, or in destroying the o", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_573" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "3. The third of our seven methods is referred to that great practical engine of nature, as well as of art, cold and heat. Here, man’s power limps, as it were, with one leg. For we possess the heat of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 3. The third of our seven methods is referred to that great practical engine of nature, as well as of art, cold and heat. Here, man’s power limps, as it were, with one leg. For we possess the heat of fire, which is infinitely more powerful and intense than that of the sun (as it reaches us), and tha", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_574" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Besides the substances which are cold to the touch, there are others which have also the effect of cold, and condense; they appear, however, to act only upon the bodies of animals, and scarcely any fu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Besides the substances which are cold to the touch, there are others which have also the effect of cold, and condense; they appear, however, to act only upon the bodies of animals, and scarcely any further. Of these we have many instances, in medicines and plasters. Some condense the flesh and tangi", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_575" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The preparations of bodies, also, for the reception of cold should not be omitted, such as that water a little warmed is more easily frozen than that which is quite cold, and the like.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The preparations of bodies, also, for the reception of cold should not be omitted, such as that water a little warmed is more easily frozen than that which is quite cold, and the like.", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_576" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Moreover, since nature supplies cold so sparingly, we must act like the apothecaries, who, when they cannot obtain any simple ingredient, take a succedaneum, or _quid pro quo_, as they term it, such a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Moreover, since nature supplies cold so sparingly, we must act like the apothecaries, who, when they cannot obtain any simple ingredient, take a succedaneum, or _quid pro quo_, as they term it, such as aloes for xylobalsamum, cassia for cinnamon. In the same manner we should look diligently about us", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_577" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "With regard to heat, man possesses abundant means and power; but his observation and inquiry are defective in some respects, and those of the greatest importance, notwithstanding the boasting of quack...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: With regard to heat, man possesses abundant means and power; but his observation and inquiry are defective in some respects, and those of the greatest importance, notwithstanding the boasting of quacks. For the effects of intense heat are examined and observed, while those of a more gentle degree of", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_578" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We should, however, particularly attend to the investigation and discovery of the effects and operations of heat, when made to approach and retire by degrees, regularly, periodically, and by proper in...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We should, however, particularly attend to the investigation and discovery of the effects and operations of heat, when made to approach and retire by degrees, regularly, periodically, and by proper intervals of space and time. For this systematical inequality is in truth the daughter of heaven and m", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_579" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "4. The fourth mode of action is by continuance, the very steward and almoner, as it were, of nature. We apply the term continuance to the abandonment of a body to itself for an observable time, guarde...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 4. The fourth mode of action is by continuance, the very steward and almoner, as it were, of nature. We apply the term continuance to the abandonment of a body to itself for an observable time, guarded and protected in the meanwhile from all external force. For the internal motion then commences to ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_580" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "5. The direction of motion (which is the fifth method of action) is of no small use. We adopt this term, when speaking of a body which, meeting with another, either arrests, repels, allows, or directs...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 5. The direction of motion (which is the fifth method of action) is of no small use. We adopt this term, when speaking of a body which, meeting with another, either arrests, repels, allows, or directs its original motion. This is the case principally in the figure and position of vessels. An upright", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_581" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "6. The effects produced by harmony and aversion (which is the sixth method) are frequently buried in obscurity; for these occult and specific properties (as they are termed), the sympathies and antipa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 6. The effects produced by harmony and aversion (which is the sixth method) are frequently buried in obscurity; for these occult and specific properties (as they are termed), the sympathies and antipathies, are for the most part but a corruption of philosophy. Nor can we form any great expectation o", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_582" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The greater and more universal species of harmony are not, however, so wholly obscure, and with them, therefore, we must commence. The first and principal distinction between them is this; that some b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The greater and more universal species of harmony are not, however, so wholly obscure, and with them, therefore, we must commence. The first and principal distinction between them is this; that some bodies differ considerably in the abundance and rarity of their substance, but correspond in their co", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_583" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The next most general correspondence is that between individual bodies and those which supply them by way of menstruum or support. Inquiry, therefore, must be made as to the climate, soil, and depth a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The next most general correspondence is that between individual bodies and those which supply them by way of menstruum or support. Inquiry, therefore, must be made as to the climate, soil, and depth at which each metal is generated, and the same of gems, whether produced in rocks or mines, also as t", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_584" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The harmony of principal bodies with those subordinate to them (such indeed may be deemed those we have alluded to above) are sufficiently manifest, to which may be added those that exist between diff...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The harmony of principal bodies with those subordinate to them (such indeed may be deemed those we have alluded to above) are sufficiently manifest, to which may be added those that exist between different bodies and their objects, and, since these latter are more apparent, they may throw great ligh", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_585" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The more internal harmony and aversion, or friendship and enmity (for superstition and folly have rendered the terms of sympathy and antipathy almost disgusting), have been either falsely assigned, or...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The more internal harmony and aversion, or friendship and enmity (for superstition and folly have rendered the terms of sympathy and antipathy almost disgusting), have been either falsely assigned, or mixed with fable, or most rarely discovered from neglect. For if one were to allege that there is a", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_586" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "7. Lastly, there remains the seventh, and last of the seven, modes of action; namely, that by the alternation and interchange of the other six; but of this, it will not be the right time to offer any ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: 7. Lastly, there remains the seventh, and last of the seven, modes of action; namely, that by the alternation and interchange of the other six; but of this, it will not be the right time to offer any examples, until some deeper investigation shall have taken place of each of the others. The series, ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_587" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LI. The twenty-seventh and last place we will assign to the magical instances, a term which we apply to those where the matter or efficient agent is scanty or small, in comparison with the grandeur of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LI. The twenty-seventh and last place we will assign to the magical instances, a term which we apply to those where the matter or efficient agent is scanty or small, in comparison with the grandeur of the work or effect produced; so that even when common they appear miraculous, some at first sight, ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_588" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "LII. Let this suffice as to the respective dignity of prerogatives of instances. But it must be noted, that in this our organ, we treat of logic, and not of philosophy. Seeing, however, that our logic...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: LII. Let this suffice as to the respective dignity of prerogatives of instances. But it must be noted, that in this our organ, we treat of logic, and not of philosophy. Seeing, however, that our logic instructs and informs the understanding, in order that it may not, with the small hooks, as it were", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_589" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, out of these twenty-seven instances, some must be collected immediately, without waiting for a particular investigation of properties. Such are the similar, singular, deviating, and bordering i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, out of these twenty-seven instances, some must be collected immediately, without waiting for a particular investigation of properties. Such are the similar, singular, deviating, and bordering instances, those of power, and of the gate, and suggesting, generally useful, and magical instances; ", "source": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature", "segment_id": "Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature_para_590" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The earliest antiquity lies buried in silence and oblivion, excepting the remains we have of it in sacred writ. This silence was succeeded by poetical fables, and these, at length, by the writings we ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The earliest antiquity lies buried in silence and oblivion, excepting the remains we have of it in sacred writ. This silence was succeeded by poetical fables, and these, at length, by the writings we now enjoy; so that the concealed and secret learning of the ancients seems separated from the histor", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_0" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Many may imagine that I am here entering upon a work of fancy, or amusement, and design to use a poetical liberty, in explaining poetical fables. It is true, fables, in general, are composed of ductil...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Many may imagine that I am here entering upon a work of fancy, or amusement, and design to use a poetical liberty, in explaining poetical fables. It is true, fables, in general, are composed of ductile matter, that may be drawn into great variety by a witty talent or an inventive genius, and be deli", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_1" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor is this only a late or unfrequent practice, but of ancient date and common even to this day. Thus Chrysippus, like an interpreter of dreams, attributed the opinions of the Stoics to the poets of o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor is this only a late or unfrequent practice, but of ancient date and common even to this day. Thus Chrysippus, like an interpreter of dreams, attributed the opinions of the Stoics to the poets of old; and the chemists, at present, more childishly apply the poetical transformations to their experi", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_2" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Upon deliberate consideration, my judgment is, that a concealed instruction and allegory was originally intended in many of the ancient fables. This opinion may, in some respect, be owing to the vener...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Upon deliberate consideration, my judgment is, that a concealed instruction and allegory was originally intended in many of the ancient fables. This opinion may, in some respect, be owing to the veneration I have for antiquity, but more to observing that some fables discover a great and evident simi", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_3" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, the conformity and purport of the names is frequently manifest and self-evident. Thus Metis, the wife of Jupiter, plainly signifies counsel; Typhon, swelling; Pan, universality; Nemesis, reveng...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, the conformity and purport of the names is frequently manifest and self-evident. Thus Metis, the wife of Jupiter, plainly signifies counsel; Typhon, swelling; Pan, universality; Nemesis, revenge, &c.\nNor is it a wonder, if sometimes a piece of history or other things are introduced, by way of", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_4" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It may pass for a further indication of a concealed and secret meaning, that some of these fables are so absurd and idle in their narration, as to show and proclaim an allegory, even afar off. A fable...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It may pass for a further indication of a concealed and secret meaning, that some of these fables are so absurd and idle in their narration, as to show and proclaim an allegory, even afar off. A fable that carries probability with it may be supposed invented for pleasure, or in imitation of history;", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_5" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But the argument of most weight with me is this, that many of these fables by no means appear to have been invented by the persons who relate and divulge them, whether Homer, Hesiod, or others; for if...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But the argument of most weight with me is this, that many of these fables by no means appear to have been invented by the persons who relate and divulge them, whether Homer, Hesiod, or others; for if I were assured they first flowed from those later times and authors that transmit them to us, I sho", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_6" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Men have proposed to answer two different and contrary ends by the use of parable; for parables serve as well to instruct or illustrate as to wrap up and envelop; so that though, for the present, we d...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Men have proposed to answer two different and contrary ends by the use of parable; for parables serve as well to instruct or illustrate as to wrap up and envelop; so that though, for the present, we drop the concealed use, and suppose the ancient fables to be vague, undeterminate things, formed for ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_7" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "To conclude, the knowledge of the early ages was either great or happy; great, if they by design made this use of trope and figure; happy, if, whilst they had other views, they afforded matter and occ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: To conclude, the knowledge of the early ages was either great or happy; great, if they by design made this use of trope and figure; happy, if, whilst they had other views, they afforded matter and occasion to such noble contemplations. Let either be the case, our pains, perhaps, will not be misemplo", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_8" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The like, indeed, has been attempted by others; but, to speak ingenuously, their great and voluminous labors have almost destroyed the energy, the efficacy, and grace of the thing; whilst, being unski...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The like, indeed, has been attempted by others; but, to speak ingenuously, their great and voluminous labors have almost destroyed the energy, the efficacy, and grace of the thing; whilst, being unskilled in nature, and their learning no more than that of commonplace, they have applied the sense of ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_9" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets relate, that Apollo, falling in love with Cassandra, was still deluded and put off by her, yet fed with hopes, till she had got from him the gift of prophesy; and, having now obtained her en...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets relate, that Apollo, falling in love with Cassandra, was still deluded and put off by her, yet fed with hopes, till she had got from him the gift of prophesy; and, having now obtained her end, she flatly rejected his suit. Apollo, unable to recall his rash gift, yet enraged to be outwitted", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_10" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems invented to express the insignificance of unseasonable advice. For they who are conceited, stubborn, or intractable, and listen not to the instructions of Apollo, the god...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems invented to express the insignificance of unseasonable advice. For they who are conceited, stubborn, or intractable, and listen not to the instructions of Apollo, the god of harmony, so as to learn and observe the modulations and measures of affairs, the sharps and flat", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_11" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Of this, we have a remarkable instance in Cato of Utica, who discovered afar off, and long foretold, the approaching ruin of his country, both in the first conspiracy, and as it was prosecuted in the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Of this, we have a remarkable instance in Cato of Utica, who discovered afar off, and long foretold, the approaching ruin of his country, both in the first conspiracy, and as it was prosecuted in the civil war between Cæsar and Pompey, yet did no good the while, but rather hurt the commonwealth, and", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_12" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The fable runs, that Juno, enraged at Jupiter’s bringing forth Pallas without her assistance, incessantly solicited all the gods and goddesses, that she might produce without Jupiter; and having by vi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The fable runs, that Juno, enraged at Jupiter’s bringing forth Pallas without her assistance, incessantly solicited all the gods and goddesses, that she might produce without Jupiter; and having by violence and importunity obtained the grant, she struck the earth, and thence immediately sprung up Ty", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_13" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But Mercury afterwards stole these sinews from Typhon, and restored them to Jupiter. Hence, recovering his strength, Jupiter again pursues the monster; first wounds him with a stroke of his thunder, w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But Mercury afterwards stole these sinews from Typhon, and restored them to Jupiter. Hence, recovering his strength, Jupiter again pursues the monster; first wounds him with a stroke of his thunder, when serpents arose from the blood of the wound; and now the monster being dismayed, and taking to fl", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_14" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems designed to express the various fates of kings, and the turns that rebellions sometimes take, in kingdoms.\nFor princes may be justly esteemed married to their states, as ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems designed to express the various fates of kings, and the turns that rebellions sometimes take, in kingdoms.\nFor princes may be justly esteemed married to their states, as Jupiter to Juno; but it sometimes happens, that, being depraved by long wielding of the sceptre, and", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_15" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But if now they prudently bear this reverse of fortune, they may, in a short time, by the assistance of Mercury, recover their sinews again; that is, by becoming moderate and affable; reconciling the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But if now they prudently bear this reverse of fortune, they may, in a short time, by the assistance of Mercury, recover their sinews again; that is, by becoming moderate and affable; reconciling the minds and affections of the people to them, by gracious speeches and prudent proclamations, which wi", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_16" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is related that the Cyclops, for their savageness and cruelty, were by Jupiter first thrown into Tartarus, and there condemned to perpetual imprisonment; but that afterwards Tellus persuaded Jupite...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is related that the Cyclops, for their savageness and cruelty, were by Jupiter first thrown into Tartarus, and there condemned to perpetual imprisonment; but that afterwards Tellus persuaded Jupiter it would be for his service to release them, and employ them in forging thunderbolts. This he acco", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_17" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It happened, long after, that Jupiter was displeased with Æsculapius, the son of Apollo, for having, by the art of medicine, restored a dead man to life; but concealing his indignation, because the ac...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It happened, long after, that Jupiter was displeased with Æsculapius, the son of Apollo, for having, by the art of medicine, restored a dead man to life; but concealing his indignation, because the action in itself was pious and illustrious, he secretly incensed the Cyclops against him, who, without", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_18" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to point at the behavior of princes, who, having cruel, bloody, and oppressive ministers, first punish and displace them; but afterwards, by the advice of Tellus, that is...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to point at the behavior of princes, who, having cruel, bloody, and oppressive ministers, first punish and displace them; but afterwards, by the advice of Tellus, that is, some earthly-minded and ignoble person, employ them again, to serve a turn, when there is occasion", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_19" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Narcissus is said to have been extremely beautiful and comely, but intolerably proud and disdainful; so that, pleased with himself, and scorning the world, he led a solitary life in the woods; hunting...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Narcissus is said to have been extremely beautiful and comely, but intolerably proud and disdainful; so that, pleased with himself, and scorning the world, he led a solitary life in the woods; hunting only with a few followers, who were his professed admirers, amongst whom the nymph Echo was his con", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_20" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to paint the behavior and fortune of those, who, for their beauty, or other endowments, wherewith nature (without any industry of their own) has graced and adorned them, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to paint the behavior and fortune of those, who, for their beauty, or other endowments, wherewith nature (without any industry of their own) has graced and adorned them, are extravagantly fond of themselves: for men of such a disposition generally affect retirement, and", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_21" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And they who are depraved, and rendered still fonder of themselves by this custom, grow strangely indolent, inactive, and perfectly stupid.\nThe Narcissus, a spring flower, is an elegant emblem of this...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And they who are depraved, and rendered still fonder of themselves by this custom, grow strangely indolent, inactive, and perfectly stupid.\nThe Narcissus, a spring flower, is an elegant emblem of this temper, which at first flourishes, and is talked of, but, when ripe, frustrates the expectation con", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_22" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And that this flower should be sacred to the infernal powers, carries out the allusion still further; because men of this humor are perfectly useless in all respects: for whatever yields no fruit, but...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And that this flower should be sacred to the infernal powers, carries out the allusion still further; because men of this humor are perfectly useless in all respects: for whatever yields no fruit, but passes, and is no more, like the way of a ship in the sea, was by the ancients consecrated to the i", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_23" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The only solemn oath, by which the gods irrevocably obliged themselves, is a well known thing, and makes a part of many ancient fables. To this oath they did not invoke any celestial divinity, or divi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The only solemn oath, by which the gods irrevocably obliged themselves, is a well known thing, and makes a part of many ancient fables. To this oath they did not invoke any celestial divinity, or divine attribute, but only called to witness the River Styx, which, with many meanders, surrounds the in", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_24" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems invented to show the nature of the compacts and confederacies of princes; which, though ever so solemnly and religiously sworn to, prove but little the more binding for i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems invented to show the nature of the compacts and confederacies of princes; which, though ever so solemnly and religiously sworn to, prove but little the more binding for it: so that oaths, in this case, seem used rather for decorum, reputation, and ceremony, than for fid", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_25" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This necessity is elegantly represented by Styx, the fatal river that can never be crossed back. And this deity it was, which Iphicrates the Athenian invoked in making a league; and because he roundly...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This necessity is elegantly represented by Styx, the fatal river that can never be crossed back. And this deity it was, which Iphicrates the Athenian invoked in making a league; and because he roundly and openly avows what most others studiously conceal, it may be proper to give his own words. Obser", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_26" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancients have, with great exactness, delineated universal nature under the person of Pan. They leave his origin doubtful; some asserting him the son of Mercury, and others the common offspring of ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancients have, with great exactness, delineated universal nature under the person of Pan. They leave his origin doubtful; some asserting him the son of Mercury, and others the common offspring of all Penelope’s suitors. The latter supposition doubtless occasioned some later rivals to entitle thi", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_27" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "He is described by antiquity, with pyramidal horns reaching up to heaven, a rough and shaggy body, a very long beard, of a biform figure, human above, half brute below, ending in goat’s feet. His arms...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: He is described by antiquity, with pyramidal horns reaching up to heaven, a rough and shaggy body, a very long beard, of a biform figure, human above, half brute below, ending in goat’s feet. His arms, or ensigns of power, are, a pipe in his left hand, composed of seven reeds; in his right a crook; ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_28" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "His attributes and titles were the god of hunters, shepherds, and all the rural inhabitants; president of the mountains; and, after Mercury, the next messenger of the gods. He was also held the leader...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: His attributes and titles were the god of hunters, shepherds, and all the rural inhabitants; president of the mountains; and, after Mercury, the next messenger of the gods. He was also held the leader and ruler of the Nymphs, who continually danced and frisked about him, attended with the Satyrs and", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_29" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Few actions are recorded of him; only a principal one is, that he challenged Cupid at wrestling, and was worsted. He also catched the giant Typhon in a net, and held him fast. They relate further of h...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Few actions are recorded of him; only a principal one is, that he challenged Cupid at wrestling, and was worsted. He also catched the giant Typhon in a net, and held him fast. They relate further of him, that when Ceres, growing disconsolate for the rape of Proserpine, hid herself, and all the gods ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_30" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There is very little said of his amours; which may seem strange among such a multitude of gods, so profusely amorous. He is only reported to have been very fond of Echo, who was also esteemed his wife...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There is very little said of his amours; which may seem strange among such a multitude of gods, so profusely amorous. He is only reported to have been very fond of Echo, who was also esteemed his wife; and one nymph more, called Syrinx, with the love of whom Cupid inflamed him for his insolent chall", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_31" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, Pan had no descendant, which also is a wonder, when the male gods were so extremely prolific; only he was the reputed father of a servant-girl called Iambe, who used to divert strangers with h...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, Pan had no descendant, which also is a wonder, when the male gods were so extremely prolific; only he was the reputed father of a servant-girl called Iambe, who used to divert strangers with her ridiculous prattling stories.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_32" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This fable is perhaps the noblest of all antiquity, and pregnant with the mysteries and secrets of nature. Pan, as the name imports, represents the universe, about whose origin there are two opinions,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This fable is perhaps the noblest of all antiquity, and pregnant with the mysteries and secrets of nature. Pan, as the name imports, represents the universe, about whose origin there are two opinions, viz: that it either sprung from Mercury, that is, the divine word, according to the Scriptures and ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_33" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The third origin of Pan seems borrowed by the Greeks from the Hebrew mysteries, either by means of the Egyptians, or otherwise; for it relates to the state of the world, not in its first creation, but...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The third origin of Pan seems borrowed by the Greeks from the Hebrew mysteries, either by means of the Egyptians, or otherwise; for it relates to the state of the world, not in its first creation, but as made subject to death and corruption after the fall; and in this state it was and remains, the o", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_34" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The Destinies, or the natures and fates of things, are justly made Pan’s sisters, as the chain of natural causes links together the rise, duration, and corruption; the exaltation, degeneration, and wo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The Destinies, or the natures and fates of things, are justly made Pan’s sisters, as the chain of natural causes links together the rise, duration, and corruption; the exaltation, degeneration, and workings; the processes, the effects, and changes, of all that can any way happen to things.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_35" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Horns are given him, broad at the roots, but narrow and sharp at the top, because the nature of all things seems pyramidal; for individuals are infinite, but being collected into a variety of species,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Horns are given him, broad at the roots, but narrow and sharp at the top, because the nature of all things seems pyramidal; for individuals are infinite, but being collected into a variety of species, they rise up into kinds, and these again ascend, and are contracted into generals, till at length n", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_36" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Pan’s body, or the body of nature, is, with great propriety and elegance, painted shaggy and hairy, as representing the rays of things; for rays are as the hair or fleece of nature, and more or less w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Pan’s body, or the body of nature, is, with great propriety and elegance, painted shaggy and hairy, as representing the rays of things; for rays are as the hair or fleece of nature, and more or less worn by all bodies. This evidently appears in vision, and in all effects and operations at a distance", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_37" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, the body of nature is justly described biform, because of the difference between its superior and inferior parts, as the former, for their beauty, regularity of motion, and influence over the e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, the body of nature is justly described biform, because of the difference between its superior and inferior parts, as the former, for their beauty, regularity of motion, and influence over the earth, may be properly represented by the human figure, and the latter, because of their disorder, ir", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_38" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There lies a curious allegory in the making of Pan goat-footed, on account of the motion of ascent which the terrestrial bodies have towards the air and heavens; for the goat is a clambering creature,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There lies a curious allegory in the making of Pan goat-footed, on account of the motion of ascent which the terrestrial bodies have towards the air and heavens; for the goat is a clambering creature, that delights in climbing up rocks and precipices; and in the same manner the matters destined to t", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_39" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Pan’s arms, or the ensigns he bears in his hands, are of two kinds—the one an emblem of harmony, the other of empire. His pipe, composed of seven reeds, plainly denotes the consent and harmony, or the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Pan’s arms, or the ensigns he bears in his hands, are of two kinds—the one an emblem of harmony, the other of empire. His pipe, composed of seven reeds, plainly denotes the consent and harmony, or the concords and discords of things, produced by the motion of the seven planets.\nHis crook, also, cont", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_40" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Pan’s mantle, or clothing, is with great ingenuity made of a leopard’s skin, because of the spots it has; for in like manner the heavens are sprinkled with stars, the sea with islands, the earth with ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Pan’s mantle, or clothing, is with great ingenuity made of a leopard’s skin, because of the spots it has; for in like manner the heavens are sprinkled with stars, the sea with islands, the earth with flowers, and almost each particular thing is variegated, or wears a mottled coat.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_41" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The office of Pan could not be more livelily expressed than by making him the god of hunters; for every natural action, every motion and process, is no other than a chase. Thus arts and sciences hunt ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The office of Pan could not be more livelily expressed than by making him the god of hunters; for every natural action, every motion and process, is no other than a chase. Thus arts and sciences hunt out their works, and human schemes and counsels their several ends; and all living creatures either ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_42" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "He is likewise particularly styled President of the Mountains, because in mountains and lofty places the nature of things lies more open and exposed to the eye and the understanding.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: He is likewise particularly styled President of the Mountains, because in mountains and lofty places the nature of things lies more open and exposed to the eye and the understanding.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_43" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In his being called the messenger of the gods, next after Mercury, lies a divine allegory, as next after the Word of God, the image of the world is the herald of the Divine power and wisdom, according...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In his being called the messenger of the gods, next after Mercury, lies a divine allegory, as next after the Word of God, the image of the world is the herald of the Divine power and wisdom, according to the expression of the Psalmist: “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_44" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Pan is delighted with the company of the Nymphs, that is, the souls of all living creatures are the delight of the world; and he is properly called their governor, because each of them follows its own...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Pan is delighted with the company of the Nymphs, that is, the souls of all living creatures are the delight of the world; and he is properly called their governor, because each of them follows its own nature, as a leader, and all dance about their own respective rings, with infinite variety and neve", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_45" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The power he had of striking terrors contains a very sensible doctrine; for nature has implanted fear in all living creatures, as well to keep them from risking their lives, as to guard against injuri...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The power he had of striking terrors contains a very sensible doctrine; for nature has implanted fear in all living creatures, as well to keep them from risking their lives, as to guard against injuries and violence; and yet this nature or passion keeps not its bounds, but with just and profitable f", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_46" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The presumption of Pan in challenging Cupid to the conflict denotes that matter has an appetite and tendency to a dissolution of the world, and falling back to its first chaos again, unless this depra...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The presumption of Pan in challenging Cupid to the conflict denotes that matter has an appetite and tendency to a dissolution of the world, and falling back to its first chaos again, unless this depravity and inclination were restrained and subdued by a more powerful concord and agreement of things,", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_47" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "His catching and detaining Typhon in the net receives a similar explanation; for whatever vast and unusual swells, which the word typhon signifies, may sometimes be raised in nature, as in the sea, th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: His catching and detaining Typhon in the net receives a similar explanation; for whatever vast and unusual swells, which the word typhon signifies, may sometimes be raised in nature, as in the sea, the clouds, the earth, or the like, yet nature catches, entangles, and holds all such outrages and ins", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_48" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That part of the fable which attributes the discovery of lost Ceres to Pan whilst he was hunting—a happiness denied the other gods, though they diligently and expressly sought her—contains an exceedin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That part of the fable which attributes the discovery of lost Ceres to Pan whilst he was hunting—a happiness denied the other gods, though they diligently and expressly sought her—contains an exceeding just and prudent admonition; viz: that we are not to expect the discovery of things useful in comm", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_49" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The event of his contending with Apollo in music affords us a useful instruction, that may help to humble the human reason and judgment, which is too apt to boast and glory in itself. There seem to be...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The event of his contending with Apollo in music affords us a useful instruction, that may help to humble the human reason and judgment, which is too apt to boast and glory in itself. There seem to be two kinds of harmony,—the one of Divine providence, the other of human reason; but the government o", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_50" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We must not find it strange if no amours are related of Pan besides his marriage with Echo; for nature enjoys itself, and in itself all other things. He that loves, desires enjoyment, but in profusion...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We must not find it strange if no amours are related of Pan besides his marriage with Echo; for nature enjoys itself, and in itself all other things. He that loves, desires enjoyment, but in profusion there is no room for desire; and therefore Pan, remaining content with himself, has no passion unle", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_51" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It tends, also, to the support and perfection of Pan, or nature, to be without offspring; for the world generates in its parts, and not in the way of a whole, as wanting a body external to itself wher...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It tends, also, to the support and perfection of Pan, or nature, to be without offspring; for the world generates in its parts, and not in the way of a whole, as wanting a body external to itself wherewith to generate.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_52" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, for the supposed or spurious prattling daughter of Pan, it is an excellent addition to the fable, and aptly represents the talkative philosophies that have at all times been stirring, and fill...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, for the supposed or spurious prattling daughter of Pan, it is an excellent addition to the fable, and aptly represents the talkative philosophies that have at all times been stirring, and filled the world with idle tales; being ever barren, empty, and servile, though sometimes indeed diverti", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_53" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "“The fable relates, that Perseus was dispatched from the east, by Pallas, to cut off Medusa’s head, who had committed great ravage upon the people of the west; for this Medusa was so dire a monster, a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: “The fable relates, that Perseus was dispatched from the east, by Pallas, to cut off Medusa’s head, who had committed great ravage upon the people of the west; for this Medusa was so dire a monster, as to turn into stone all those who but looked upon her. She was a Gorgon, and the only mortal one of", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_54" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This fable seems invented to show the prudent method of choosing, undertaking, and conducting a war; and, accordingly, lays down three useful precepts about it, as if they were the precepts of Pallas.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This fable seems invented to show the prudent method of choosing, undertaking, and conducting a war; and, accordingly, lays down three useful precepts about it, as if they were the precepts of Pallas.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_55" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The first is, that no prince should be over-solicitous to subdue a neighboring nation; for the method of enlarging an empire is very different from that of increasing an estate. Regard is justly had t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The first is, that no prince should be over-solicitous to subdue a neighboring nation; for the method of enlarging an empire is very different from that of increasing an estate. Regard is justly had to contiguity, or adjacency, in private lands and possessions; but in the extending of empire, the oc", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_56" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The second precept is, that the cause of the war be just and honorable; for this adds alacrity both to the soldiers, and the people who find the supplies; procures aids, alliances, and numerous other ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The second precept is, that the cause of the war be just and honorable; for this adds alacrity both to the soldiers, and the people who find the supplies; procures aids, alliances, and numerous other conveniences. Now there is no cause of war more just and laudable than the suppressing of tyranny; b", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_57" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, it is prudently added, that, as there were three of the Gorgons, who represent war, Perseus singled her out for this expedition that was mortal; which affords this precept, that such kind of w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, it is prudently added, that, as there were three of the Gorgons, who represent war, Perseus singled her out for this expedition that was mortal; which affords this precept, that such kind of wars should be chose as may be brought to a conclusion without pursuing vast and infinite hopes.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_58" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Again, Perseus’s setting-out is extremely well adapted to his undertaking, and in a manner commands success; he received dispatch from Mercury, secrecy from Pluto, and foresight from Pallas. It also c...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Again, Perseus’s setting-out is extremely well adapted to his undertaking, and in a manner commands success; he received dispatch from Mercury, secrecy from Pluto, and foresight from Pallas. It also contains an excellent allegory, that the wings given him by Mercury were for his heels, not for his s", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_59" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The allegory of Pluto’s helmet, rendering men invisible and secret, is sufficiently evident of itself; but the mystery of the shield and the mirror lies deeper; and denotes, that not only a prudent ca...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The allegory of Pluto’s helmet, rendering men invisible and secret, is sufficiently evident of itself; but the mystery of the shield and the mirror lies deeper; and denotes, that not only a prudent caution must be had to defend, like the shield, but also such an address and penetration as may discov", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_60" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But though Perseus may now seem extremely well prepared, there still remains the most important thing of all; before he enters upon the war, he must of necessity consult the Greæ. These Greæ are treas...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But though Perseus may now seem extremely well prepared, there still remains the most important thing of all; before he enters upon the war, he must of necessity consult the Greæ. These Greæ are treasons; half, but degenerate sisters of the Gorgons; who are representatives of wars; for wars are gene", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_61" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These Greæ, therefore, must be prevailed upon by Perseus to lend him their eye and their tooth; the eye to give him indications, and make discoveries; the tooth for sowing rumors, raising envy, and st...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These Greæ, therefore, must be prevailed upon by Perseus to lend him their eye and their tooth; the eye to give him indications, and make discoveries; the tooth for sowing rumors, raising envy, and stirring up the minds of the people. And when all these things are thus disposed and prepared, then fo", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_62" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "He finds Medusa asleep; for whoever undertakes a war with prudence, generally falls upon the enemy unprepared, and nearly in a state of security; and here is the occasion for Pallas’s mirror: for it i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: He finds Medusa asleep; for whoever undertakes a war with prudence, generally falls upon the enemy unprepared, and nearly in a state of security; and here is the occasion for Pallas’s mirror: for it is common enough, before the danger presents itself, to see exactly into the state and posture of the", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_63" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Two effects here follow the conquest: 1. The darting forth of Pegasus; which evidently denotes fame, that flies abroad, proclaiming the victory far and near. 2. The bearing of Medusa’s head in the shi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Two effects here follow the conquest: 1. The darting forth of Pegasus; which evidently denotes fame, that flies abroad, proclaiming the victory far and near. 2. The bearing of Medusa’s head in the shield, which is the greatest possible defence and safeguard; for one grand and memorable enterprise, h", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_64" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The goddess Luna is said to have fallen in love with the shepherd Endymion, and to have carried on her amours with him in a new and singular manner; it being her custom, whilst he lay reposing in his ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The goddess Luna is said to have fallen in love with the shepherd Endymion, and to have carried on her amours with him in a new and singular manner; it being her custom, whilst he lay reposing in his native cave, under Mount Latmus, to descend frequently from her sphere, enjoy his company whilst he ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_65" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to describe the tempers and dispositions of princes, who, being thoughtful and suspicious, do not easily admit to their privacies such men as are prying, curious, and vig...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to describe the tempers and dispositions of princes, who, being thoughtful and suspicious, do not easily admit to their privacies such men as are prying, curious, and vigilant, or, as it were, sleepless; but rather such as are of an easy, obliging nature, and indulge th", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_66" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The cave is not improperly mentioned in the fable; it being a common thing for the favorites of a prince to have their pleasant retreats, whither to invite him, by way of relaxation, though without pr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The cave is not improperly mentioned in the fable; it being a common thing for the favorites of a prince to have their pleasant retreats, whither to invite him, by way of relaxation, though without prejudice to their own fortunes; these favorites usually making a good provision for themselves.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_67" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "For though their prince should not, perhaps, promote them to dignities, yet, out of real affection, and not only for convenience, they generally feel the enriching influence of his bounty.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: For though their prince should not, perhaps, promote them to dignities, yet, out of real affection, and not only for convenience, they generally feel the enriching influence of his bounty.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_68" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets relate, that the giants, produced from the earth, made war upon Jupiter, and the other gods, but were repulsed and conquered by thunder; whereat the earth, provoked, brought forth Fame, the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets relate, that the giants, produced from the earth, made war upon Jupiter, and the other gods, but were repulsed and conquered by thunder; whereat the earth, provoked, brought forth Fame, the youngest sister of the giants, in revenge for the death of her sons.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_69" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—The meaning of the fable seems to be this: the earth denotes the nature of the vulgar, who are always swelling, and rising against their rulers, and endeavoring at changes. This dispositi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—The meaning of the fable seems to be this: the earth denotes the nature of the vulgar, who are always swelling, and rising against their rulers, and endeavoring at changes. This disposition, getting a fit opportunity, breeds rebels and traitors, who, with impetuous rage, threaten and co", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_70" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And when brought under and subdued, the same vile and restless nature of the people, impatient of peace, produces rumors, detractions, slanders, libels, &c., to blacken those in authority; so that reb...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And when brought under and subdued, the same vile and restless nature of the people, impatient of peace, produces rumors, detractions, slanders, libels, &c., to blacken those in authority; so that rebellious actions and seditious rumors, differ not in origin and stock, but only, as it were, in sex; ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_71" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancients afford us two examples for suppressing the impertinent curiosity of mankind, in diving into secrets, and imprudently longing and endeavoring to discover them. The one of these is in the p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancients afford us two examples for suppressing the impertinent curiosity of mankind, in diving into secrets, and imprudently longing and endeavoring to discover them. The one of these is in the person of Acteon, and the other in that of Pentheus. Acteon, undesignedly chancing to see Diana naked", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_72" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—The first of these fables may relate to the secrets of princes, and the second to divine mysteries. For they who are not intimate with a prince, yet, against his will, have a knowledge of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—The first of these fables may relate to the secrets of princes, and the second to divine mysteries. For they who are not intimate with a prince, yet, against his will, have a knowledge of his secrets, inevitably incur his displeasure; and therefore, being aware that they are singled out", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_73" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The punishment of Pentheus is of another kind; for they who, unmindful of their mortal state, rashly aspire to divine mysteries, by climbing the heights of nature and philosophy, here represented by c...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The punishment of Pentheus is of another kind; for they who, unmindful of their mortal state, rashly aspire to divine mysteries, by climbing the heights of nature and philosophy, here represented by climbing a tree,—their fate is perpetual inconstancy, perplexity, and instability of judgment. For as", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_74" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "INTRODUCTION.—The fable of Orpheus, though trite and common, has never been well interpreted, and seems to hold out a picture of universal philosophy; for to this sense may be easily transferred what ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: INTRODUCTION.—The fable of Orpheus, though trite and common, has never been well interpreted, and seems to hold out a picture of universal philosophy; for to this sense may be easily transferred what is said of his being a wonderful and perfectly divine person, skilled in all kinds of harmony, subdu", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_75" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "FABLE.—Orpheus having his beloved wife snatched from him by sudden death, resolved upon descending to the infernal regions, to try if, by the power of his harp, he could reobtain her. And, in effect, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: FABLE.—Orpheus having his beloved wife snatched from him by sudden death, resolved upon descending to the infernal regions, to try if, by the power of his harp, he could reobtain her. And, in effect, he so appeased and soothed the infernal powers by the melody and sweetness of his harp and voice, th", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_76" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—The fable receives this explanation. The music of Orpheus is of two kinds; one that appeases the infernal powers, and the other that draws together the wild beasts and trees. The former p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—The fable receives this explanation. The music of Orpheus is of two kinds; one that appeases the infernal powers, and the other that draws together the wild beasts and trees. The former properly relates to natural, and the latter to moral philosophy, or civil society. The reinstatement ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_77" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And, therefore, philosophy, being almost unequal to the task, has cause to grow sad, and hence betakes itself to human affairs, insinuating into men’s minds the love of virtue, equity, and peace, by m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And, therefore, philosophy, being almost unequal to the task, has cause to grow sad, and hence betakes itself to human affairs, insinuating into men’s minds the love of virtue, equity, and peace, by means of eloquence and persuasion; thus forming men into societies; bringing them under laws and regu", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_78" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And this regard to civil affairs is justly and regularly placed after diligent trial made for restoring the mortal body; the attempt being frustrated in the end—because the unavoidable necessity of de...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And this regard to civil affairs is justly and regularly placed after diligent trial made for restoring the mortal body; the attempt being frustrated in the end—because the unavoidable necessity of death, thus evidently laid before mankind, animates them to seek a kind of eternity by works of perpet", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_79" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also prudently added, that Orpheus was afterwards averse to women and wedlock, because the indulgence of the married state, and the natural affections which men have for their children, often pr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also prudently added, that Orpheus was afterwards averse to women and wedlock, because the indulgence of the married state, and the natural affections which men have for their children, often prevent them from entering upon any grand, noble, or meritorious enterprise for the public good; as th", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_80" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And even the works of knowledge, though the most excellent among human things, have their periods; for after kingdoms and commonwealths have flourished for a time, disturbances, seditions, and wars, o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And even the works of knowledge, though the most excellent among human things, have their periods; for after kingdoms and commonwealths have flourished for a time, disturbances, seditions, and wars, often arise, in the din whereof, first the laws are silent, and not heard; and then men return to the", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_81" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets relate, that Cœlum was the most ancient of all the gods; that his parts of generation were cut off by his son Saturn; that Saturn had a numerous offspring, but devoured all his sons, as soon...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets relate, that Cœlum was the most ancient of all the gods; that his parts of generation were cut off by his son Saturn; that Saturn had a numerous offspring, but devoured all his sons, as soon as they were born; that Jupiter at length escaped the common fate; and when grown up, drove his fat", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_82" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Before Jupiter was well established in his empire, two memorable wars were made upon him; the first by the Titans, in subduing of whom, Sol, the only one of the Titans who favored Jupiter, performed h...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Before Jupiter was well established in his empire, two memorable wars were made upon him; the first by the Titans, in subduing of whom, Sol, the only one of the Titans who favored Jupiter, performed him singular service; the second by the giants, who being destroyed and subdued by the thunder and ar", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_83" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable appears to be an enigmatical account of the origin of all things, not greatly differing from the philosophy afterwards embraced by Democritus, who expressly asserts the eternit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable appears to be an enigmatical account of the origin of all things, not greatly differing from the philosophy afterwards embraced by Democritus, who expressly asserts the eternity of matter, but denies the eternity of the world; thereby approaching to the truth of sacred writ, ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_84" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The meaning of the fable seems to be this: Cœlum denotes the concave space, or vaulted roof that incloses all matter, and Saturn the matter itself, which cuts off all power of generation from his fath...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The meaning of the fable seems to be this: Cœlum denotes the concave space, or vaulted roof that incloses all matter, and Saturn the matter itself, which cuts off all power of generation from his father; as one and the same quantity of matter remains invariable in nature, without addition or diminut", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_85" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Venus was not born during the former generation of things, under the reign of Saturn; for whilst discord and jar had the upper hand of concord and uniformity in the matter of the universe, a change of...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Venus was not born during the former generation of things, under the reign of Saturn; for whilst discord and jar had the upper hand of concord and uniformity in the matter of the universe, a change of the entire structure was necessary. And in this manner things were generated and destroyed, before ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_86" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But now, when the world was compact, and held together by its own bulk and energy, yet there was no rest from the beginning; for first, there followed considerable motions and disturbances in the cele...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But now, when the world was compact, and held together by its own bulk and energy, yet there was no rest from the beginning; for first, there followed considerable motions and disturbances in the celestial regions, though so regulated and moderated by the power of the Sun, prevailing over the heaven", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_87" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It may be said of this fable, that it includes philosophy; and again, that philosophy includes the fable; for we know, by faith, that all these things are but the oracle of sense, long since ceased an...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It may be said of this fable, that it includes philosophy; and again, that philosophy includes the fable; for we know, by faith, that all these things are but the oracle of sense, long since ceased and decayed; but the matter and fabric of the world being justly attributed to a creator.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_88" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Proteus, according to the poets, was Neptune’s herdsman; an old man, and a most extraordinary prophet, who understood things past and present, as well as future; so that besides the business of divina...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Proteus, according to the poets, was Neptune’s herdsman; an old man, and a most extraordinary prophet, who understood things past and present, as well as future; so that besides the business of divination, he was the revealer and interpreter of all antiquity, and secrets of every kind. He lived in a", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_89" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to point at the secrets of nature, and the states of matter. For the person of Proteus denotes matter, the oldest of all things, after God himself;[631] that resides, as ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to point at the secrets of nature, and the states of matter. For the person of Proteus denotes matter, the oldest of all things, after God himself;[631] that resides, as in a cave, under the vast concavity of the heavens. He is represented as the servant of Neptune, bec", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_90" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This is said to be done at noon, not in the morning or evening; by which is meant the time best fitted and disposed for the production of species, from a matter duly prepared, and made ready beforehan...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This is said to be done at noon, not in the morning or evening; by which is meant the time best fitted and disposed for the production of species, from a matter duly prepared, and made ready beforehand, and now lying in a middle state, between its first rudiments and decline; which, we learn from sa", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_91" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And thus far the fable reaches of Proteus, and his flock, at liberty and unrestrained. For the universe, with the common structures, and fabrics of the creatures, is the face of matter, not under cons...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And thus far the fable reaches of Proteus, and his flock, at liberty and unrestrained. For the universe, with the common structures, and fabrics of the creatures, is the face of matter, not under constraint, or as the flock wrought upon and tortured by human means. But if any skilful minister of nat", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_92" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The addition in the fable that makes Proteus a prophet, who had the knowledge of things past, present, and future, excellently agrees with the nature of matter; as he who knows the properties, the cha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The addition in the fable that makes Proteus a prophet, who had the knowledge of things past, present, and future, excellently agrees with the nature of matter; as he who knows the properties, the changes, and the processes of matter, must, of necessity, understand the effects and sum of what it doe", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_93" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets made Memnon the son of Aurora, and bring him to the Trojan war in beautiful armor, and flushed with popular praise; where, thirsting after further glory, and rashly hurrying on to the greate...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets made Memnon the son of Aurora, and bring him to the Trojan war in beautiful armor, and flushed with popular praise; where, thirsting after further glory, and rashly hurrying on to the greatest enterprises, he engages the bravest warrior of all the Greeks, Achilles, and falls by his hand in", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_94" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable regards the unfortunate end of those promising youths, who, like sons of the morning, elate with empty hopes and glittering outsides, attempt things beyond their strength; chal...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable regards the unfortunate end of those promising youths, who, like sons of the morning, elate with empty hopes and glittering outsides, attempt things beyond their strength; challenge the bravest heroes; provoke them to the combat; and, proving unequal, die in their high attemp", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_95" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The death of such youths seldom fails to meet with infinite pity; as no mortal calamity is more moving and afflicting, than to see the flower of virtue cropped before its time. Nay, the prime of life ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The death of such youths seldom fails to meet with infinite pity; as no mortal calamity is more moving and afflicting, than to see the flower of virtue cropped before its time. Nay, the prime of life enjoyed to the full, or even to a degree of envy, does not assuage or moderate the grief occasioned ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_96" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is elegantly fabled by Tythonus, that being exceedingly beloved by Aurora, she petitioned Jupiter that he might prove immortal, thereby to secure herself the everlasting enjoyment of his company; b...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is elegantly fabled by Tythonus, that being exceedingly beloved by Aurora, she petitioned Jupiter that he might prove immortal, thereby to secure herself the everlasting enjoyment of his company; but through female inadvertence she forgot to add, that he might never grow old; so that, though he p", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_97" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to contain an ingenious description of pleasure; which at first, as it were in the morning of the day, is so welcome, that men pray to have it everlasting, but forget tha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to contain an ingenious description of pleasure; which at first, as it were in the morning of the day, is so welcome, that men pray to have it everlasting, but forget that satiety and weariness of it will, like old age, overtake them, though they think not of it; so tha", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_98" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets tell us, that Jupiter, to carry on his love-intrigues, assumed many different shapes; as of a bull, an eagle, a swan, a golden shower, &c.; but when he attempted Juno, he turned himself into...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets tell us, that Jupiter, to carry on his love-intrigues, assumed many different shapes; as of a bull, an eagle, a swan, a golden shower, &c.; but when he attempted Juno, he turned himself into the most ignoble and ridiculous creature,—even that of a wretched, wet, weather-beaten, affrighted,", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_99" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This is a wise fable, and drawn from the very entrails of morality. The moral is, that men should not be conceited of themselves, and imagine that a discovery of their excellences will al...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This is a wise fable, and drawn from the very entrails of morality. The moral is, that men should not be conceited of themselves, and imagine that a discovery of their excellences will always render them acceptable; for this can only succeed according to the nature and manners of the pe", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_100" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The particulars related by the poets of Cupid, or Love, do not properly agree to the same person, yet they differ only so far, that if the confusion of persons be rejected, the correspondence may hold...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The particulars related by the poets of Cupid, or Love, do not properly agree to the same person, yet they differ only so far, that if the confusion of persons be rejected, the correspondence may hold. They say, that Love was the most ancient of all the gods, and existed before every thing else, exc", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_101" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "There was also another Cupid, or Love, the youngest son of the gods, born of Venus; and upon him the attributes of the elder are transferred, with some degree of correspondence.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: There was also another Cupid, or Love, the youngest son of the gods, born of Venus; and upon him the attributes of the elder are transferred, with some degree of correspondence.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_102" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable points at, and enters, the cradle of nature.\nLove seems to be the appetite, or incentive, of the primitive matter; or, to speak more distinctly, the natural motion, or moving p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable points at, and enters, the cradle of nature.\nLove seems to be the appetite, or incentive, of the primitive matter; or, to speak more distinctly, the natural motion, or moving principle, of the original corpuscles, or atoms; this being the most ancient and only power that made", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_103" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The divine philosopher declares, that “God has made every thing beautiful in its season; and has given over the world to our disputes and inquiries; but that man cannot find out the work which God has...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The divine philosopher declares, that “God has made every thing beautiful in its season; and has given over the world to our disputes and inquiries; but that man cannot find out the work which God has wrought, from its beginning up to its end.” Thus the summary or collective law of nature, or the pr", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_104" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Democritus, who further considered this subject, having first supposed an atom, or corpuscle, of some dimension or figure, attributed thereto an appetite, desire, or first motion simply, and another c...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Democritus, who further considered this subject, having first supposed an atom, or corpuscle, of some dimension or figure, attributed thereto an appetite, desire, or first motion simply, and another comparatively, imagining that all things properly tended to the centre of the world; those containing", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_105" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Cupid is elegantly drawn a perpetual child; for compounds are larger things, and have their periods of age; but the first seeds or atoms of bodies are small, and remain in a perpetual infant state.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Cupid is elegantly drawn a perpetual child; for compounds are larger things, and have their periods of age; but the first seeds or atoms of bodies are small, and remain in a perpetual infant state.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_106" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "He is again justly represented naked; as all compounds may properly be said to be dressed and clothed, or to assume a personage; whence nothing remains truly naked, but the original particles of thing...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: He is again justly represented naked; as all compounds may properly be said to be dressed and clothed, or to assume a personage; whence nothing remains truly naked, but the original particles of things.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_107" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The blindness of Cupid contains a deep allegory; for this same Cupid, Love, or appetite of the world, seems to have very little foresight, but directs his steps and motions conformably to what he find...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The blindness of Cupid contains a deep allegory; for this same Cupid, Love, or appetite of the world, seems to have very little foresight, but directs his steps and motions conformably to what he finds next him, as blind men do when they feel out their way; which renders the divine and overruling Pr", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_108" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The last attribute of Cupid is archery, viz: a virtue or power operating at a distance; for every thing that operates at a distance may seem, as it were, to dart, or shoot with arrows. And whoever all...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The last attribute of Cupid is archery, viz: a virtue or power operating at a distance; for every thing that operates at a distance may seem, as it were, to dart, or shoot with arrows. And whoever allows of atoms and vacuity, necessarily supposes that the virtue of atoms operates at a distance; for ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_109" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As to the other Cupid, he is properly said to be the youngest son of the gods, as his power could not take place before the formation of species, or particular bodies. The description given us of him ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As to the other Cupid, he is properly said to be the youngest son of the gods, as his power could not take place before the formation of species, or particular bodies. The description given us of him transfers the allegory to morality, though he still retains some resemblance with the ancient Cupid;", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_110" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Diomed acquired great glory and honor at the Trojan war, and was highly favored by Pallas, who encouraged and excited him by no means to spare Venus, if he should casually meet her in fight. He follow...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Diomed acquired great glory and honor at the Trojan war, and was highly favored by Pallas, who encouraged and excited him by no means to spare Venus, if he should casually meet her in fight. He followed the advice with too much eagerness and intrepidity, and accordingly wounded that goddess in her h", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_111" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable intimates an extraordinary and almost singular thing, for no hero besides Diomed is recorded to have wounded any of the gods. Doubtless we have here described the nature and fa...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable intimates an extraordinary and almost singular thing, for no hero besides Diomed is recorded to have wounded any of the gods. Doubtless we have here described the nature and fate of a man who professedly makes any divine worship or sect of religion, though, in itself vain and", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_112" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "As to the point that Diomed should be slain by his hospitable entertainer, this denotes that religious dissensions may cause treachery, bloody animosities, and deceit, even between the nearest friends...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: As to the point that Diomed should be slain by his hospitable entertainer, this denotes that religious dissensions may cause treachery, bloody animosities, and deceit, even between the nearest friends.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_113" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That complaining or bewailing should not, in so enormous a case, be permitted to friends affected by the catastrophe without punishment, includes this prudent admonition, that almost in all kinds of w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That complaining or bewailing should not, in so enormous a case, be permitted to friends affected by the catastrophe without punishment, includes this prudent admonition, that almost in all kinds of wickedness and depravity men have still room left for commiseration, so that they who hate the crime ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_114" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancients have left us a description of mechanical skill, industry, and curious arts converted to ill uses, in the person of Dædalus, a most ingenious but execrable artist. This Dædalus was banishe...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancients have left us a description of mechanical skill, industry, and curious arts converted to ill uses, in the person of Dædalus, a most ingenious but execrable artist. This Dædalus was banished for the murder of his brother artist and rival, yet found a kind reception in his banishment from ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_115" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—The sense of the fable runs thus. It first denotes envy, which is continually upon the watch, and strangely prevails among excellent artificers; for no kind of people are observed to be m...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—The sense of the fable runs thus. It first denotes envy, which is continually upon the watch, and strangely prevails among excellent artificers; for no kind of people are observed to be more implacably and destructively envious to one another than these.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_116" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In the next place, it observes an impolitic and improvident kind of punishment inflicted upon Dædalus—that of banishment; for good workmen are gladly received everywhere, so that banishment to an exce...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In the next place, it observes an impolitic and improvident kind of punishment inflicted upon Dædalus—that of banishment; for good workmen are gladly received everywhere, so that banishment to an excellent artificer is scarce any punishment at all; whereas other conditions of life cannot easily flou", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_117" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The succeeding part of the fable is plain, concerning the use of mechanic arts, whereto human life stands greatly indebted, as receiving from this treasury numerous particulars for the service of reli...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The succeeding part of the fable is plain, concerning the use of mechanic arts, whereto human life stands greatly indebted, as receiving from this treasury numerous particulars for the service of religion, the ornament of civil society, and the whole provision and apparatus of life; but then the sam", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_118" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The addition of the labyrinth contains a beautiful allegory, representing the nature of mechanic arts in general; for all ingenious and accurate mechanical inventions may be conceived as a labyrinth, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The addition of the labyrinth contains a beautiful allegory, representing the nature of mechanic arts in general; for all ingenious and accurate mechanical inventions may be conceived as a labyrinth, which, by reason of their subtilty, intricacy, crossing, and interfering with one another, and the a", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_119" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is no less prudently added, that he who invented the windings of the labyrinth, should also show the use and management of the clue; for mechanical arts have an ambiguous or double use, and serve a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is no less prudently added, that he who invented the windings of the labyrinth, should also show the use and management of the clue; for mechanical arts have an ambiguous or double use, and serve as well to produce as to prevent mischief and destruction; so that their virtue almost destroys or un", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_120" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Unlawful arts and indeed frequently arts themselves, are persecuted by Minos, that is, by laws, which prohibit and forbid their use among the people; but notwithstanding this, they are hid, concealed,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Unlawful arts and indeed frequently arts themselves, are persecuted by Minos, that is, by laws, which prohibit and forbid their use among the people; but notwithstanding this, they are hid, concealed, retained, and everywhere find reception and skulking-places; a thing well observed by Tacitus of th", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_121" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But lastly, all unlawful and vain arts, of what kind soever, lose their reputation in tract of time; grow contemptible and perish, through their overconfidence, like Icarus; being commonly unable to p...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But lastly, all unlawful and vain arts, of what kind soever, lose their reputation in tract of time; grow contemptible and perish, through their overconfidence, like Icarus; being commonly unable to perform what they boasted. And to say the truth, such arts are better suppressed by their own vain pr", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_122" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets feign that Vulcan attempted the chastity of Minerva, and impatient of refusal, had recourse to force; the consequence of which was the birth of Ericthonius, whose body from the middle upward...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets feign that Vulcan attempted the chastity of Minerva, and impatient of refusal, had recourse to force; the consequence of which was the birth of Ericthonius, whose body from the middle upwards was comely and well-proportioned, but his thighs and legs small, shrunk, and deformed, like an eel", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_123" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This strange fable seems to carry this meaning. Art is here represented under the person of Vulcan, by reason of the various uses it makes of fire; and nature, under the person of Minerva...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This strange fable seems to carry this meaning. Art is here represented under the person of Vulcan, by reason of the various uses it makes of fire; and nature, under the person of Minerva, by reason of the industry employed in her works. Art, therefore, whenever it offers violence to na", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_124" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The poets tell us, that the inhabitants of the old world being totally destroyed by the universal deluge, excepting Deucalion and Pyrrha, these two, desiring with zealous and fervent devotion to resto...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The poets tell us, that the inhabitants of the old world being totally destroyed by the universal deluge, excepting Deucalion and Pyrrha, these two, desiring with zealous and fervent devotion to restore mankind, received this oracle for answer, that “they should succeed by throwing their mother’s bo", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_125" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to reveal a secret of nature, and correct an error familiar to the mind; for men’s ignorance leads them to expect the renovation or restoration of things from their corru...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to reveal a secret of nature, and correct an error familiar to the mind; for men’s ignorance leads them to expect the renovation or restoration of things from their corruption and remains, as the phœnix is said to be restored out of its ashes; which is a very improper p", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_126" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nemesis is represented as a goddess venerated by all, but feared by the powerful and the fortunate. She is said to be the daughter of Nox and Oceanus.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nemesis is represented as a goddess venerated by all, but feared by the powerful and the fortunate. She is said to be the daughter of Nox and Oceanus.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_127" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "She is drawn with wings, and a crown; a javelin of ash in her right hand; a glass containing Ethiopians in her left; and riding upon a stag.", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: She is drawn with wings, and a crown; a javelin of ash in her right hand; a glass containing Ethiopians in her left; and riding upon a stag.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_128" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—The fable receives this explanation. The word Nemesis manifestly signifies revenge, or retribution; for the office of this goddess consisted in interposing, like the Roman tribunes, with ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—The fable receives this explanation. The word Nemesis manifestly signifies revenge, or retribution; for the office of this goddess consisted in interposing, like the Roman tribunes, with an “I forbid it,” in all courses of constant and perpetual felicity, so as not only to chastise haug", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_129" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The parents of this goddess were Oceanus and Nox; that is, the fluctuating change of things, and the obscure and secret divine decrees. The changes of things are aptly represented by the Ocean, on acc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The parents of this goddess were Oceanus and Nox; that is, the fluctuating change of things, and the obscure and secret divine decrees. The changes of things are aptly represented by the Ocean, on account of its perpetual ebbing and flowing; and secret providence is justly expressed by Night. Even t", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_130" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Wings are given to Nemesis, because of the sudden and unforeseen changes of things; for, from the earliest account of time, it has been common for great and prudent men to fall by the dangers they mos...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Wings are given to Nemesis, because of the sudden and unforeseen changes of things; for, from the earliest account of time, it has been common for great and prudent men to fall by the dangers they most despised. Thus Cicero, when admonished by Brutus of the infidelity and rancor of Octavius, coolly ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_131" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nemesis also has her crown, by reason of the invidious and malignant nature of the vulgar, who generally rejoice, triumph, and crown her, at the fall of the fortunate and the powerful. And for the jav...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nemesis also has her crown, by reason of the invidious and malignant nature of the vulgar, who generally rejoice, triumph, and crown her, at the fall of the fortunate and the powerful. And for the javelin in her right hand, it has regard to those whom she has actually struck and transfixed. But whoe", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_132" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, it is significantly added, that Nemesis rides upon a stag, which is a very long-lived creature; for though perhaps some, by an untimely death in youth, may prevent or escape this goddess, yet ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, it is significantly added, that Nemesis rides upon a stag, which is a very long-lived creature; for though perhaps some, by an untimely death in youth, may prevent or escape this goddess, yet they who enjoy a long flow of happiness and power, doubtless become subject to her at length, and ar", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_133" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancients relate, that Hercules and Achelous being rivals in the courtship of Deianira, the matter was contested by single combat; when Achelous having transformed himself, as he had power to do, i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancients relate, that Hercules and Achelous being rivals in the courtship of Deianira, the matter was contested by single combat; when Achelous having transformed himself, as he had power to do, into various shapes, by way of trial; at length, in the form of a fierce wild bull, prepares himself ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_134" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable relates to military expeditions and preparations; for the preparation of war on the defensive side, here denoted by Achelous, appears in various shapes, whilst the invading sid...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable relates to military expeditions and preparations; for the preparation of war on the defensive side, here denoted by Achelous, appears in various shapes, whilst the invading side has but one simple form, consisting either in an army, or perhaps a fleet. But the country that ex", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_135" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "On the other side, the invader presses on to the fight, fearing to be distressed in an enemy’s country. And if after the battle he remains master of the field, and has now broke, as it were, the horn ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: On the other side, the invader presses on to the fight, fearing to be distressed in an enemy’s country. And if after the battle he remains master of the field, and has now broke, as it were, the horn of his enemy, the besieged, of course, retire inglorious, affrighted, and dismayed, to their strongh", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_136" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The fable runs, that Semele, Jupiter’s mistress, having bound him by an inviolable oath to grant her an unknown request, desired he would embrace her in the same form and manner he used to embrace Jun...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The fable runs, that Semele, Jupiter’s mistress, having bound him by an inviolable oath to grant her an unknown request, desired he would embrace her in the same form and manner he used to embrace Juno; and the promise being irrevocable, she was burnt to death with lightning in the performance. The ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_137" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to contain a little system of morality, so that there is scarce any better invention in all ethics. Under the history of Bacchus, is drawn the nature of unlawful desire o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to contain a little system of morality, so that there is scarce any better invention in all ethics. Under the history of Bacchus, is drawn the nature of unlawful desire or affection, and disorder; for the appetite and thirst of apparent good is the mother of all unlawfu", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_138" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That Bacchus should be the inventor of wine, carries a fine allegory with it; for every affection is cunning and subtle in discovering a proper matter to nourish and feed it; and of all things known t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That Bacchus should be the inventor of wine, carries a fine allegory with it; for every affection is cunning and subtle in discovering a proper matter to nourish and feed it; and of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming passions of all kinds,", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_139" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is again, with great elegance, observed of Bacchus, that he subdued provinces, and undertook endless expeditions, for the affections never rest satisfied with what they enjoy, but with an endless a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is again, with great elegance, observed of Bacchus, that he subdued provinces, and undertook endless expeditions, for the affections never rest satisfied with what they enjoy, but with an endless and insatiable appetite thirst after something further. And tigers are prettily feigned to draw the c", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_140" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is also humorously imagined, that ridiculous demons dance and frisk about this chariot; for every passion produces indecent, disorderly, interchangeable and deformed motions in the eyes, countenanc...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is also humorously imagined, that ridiculous demons dance and frisk about this chariot; for every passion produces indecent, disorderly, interchangeable and deformed motions in the eyes, countenance, and gesture, so that the person under the impulse, whether of anger, insult, love, &c., though to", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_141" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The Muses also are found in the train of Bacchus, for there is scarce any passion without its art, science, or doctrine to court and flatter it; but in this respect the indulgence of men of genius has...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The Muses also are found in the train of Bacchus, for there is scarce any passion without its art, science, or doctrine to court and flatter it; but in this respect the indulgence of men of genius has greatly detracted from the majesty of the Muses, who ought to be the leaders and conductors of huma", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_142" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The allegory of Bacchus falling in love with a cast mistress, is extremely noble; for it is certain that the affections always court and covet what has been rejected upon experience. And all those who...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The allegory of Bacchus falling in love with a cast mistress, is extremely noble; for it is certain that the affections always court and covet what has been rejected upon experience. And all those who by serving and indulging their passions immensely raise the value of enjoyment, should know, that w", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_143" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor is it without a mystery that the ivy was sacred to Bacchus, and this for two reasons: first, because ivy is an evergreen, or flourishes in the winter; and secondly, because it winds and creeps abo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor is it without a mystery that the ivy was sacred to Bacchus, and this for two reasons: first, because ivy is an evergreen, or flourishes in the winter; and secondly, because it winds and creeps about so many things, as trees, walls, and buildings, and raises itself above them. As to the first, ev", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_144" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And no wonder that superstitious rites and ceremonies are attributed to Bacchus, when almost every ungovernable passion grows wanton and luxuriant in corrupt religions; nor again, that fury and frenzy...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And no wonder that superstitious rites and ceremonies are attributed to Bacchus, when almost every ungovernable passion grows wanton and luxuriant in corrupt religions; nor again, that fury and frenzy should be sent and dealt out by him, because every passion is a short frenzy, and if it be vehement", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_145" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly; the confusion between the persons of Jupiter and Bacchus will justly admit of an allegory, because noble and meritorious actions may sometimes proceed from virtue, sound reason, and magnanimit...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly; the confusion between the persons of Jupiter and Bacchus will justly admit of an allegory, because noble and meritorious actions may sometimes proceed from virtue, sound reason, and magnanimity, and sometimes again from a concealed passion and secret desire of ill, however they may be extoll", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_146" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Atalanta, who was exceedingly fleet, contended with Hippomenes in the course, on condition that, if Hippomenes won, he should espouse her, or forfeit his life if he lost. The match was very unequal, f...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Atalanta, who was exceedingly fleet, contended with Hippomenes in the course, on condition that, if Hippomenes won, he should espouse her, or forfeit his life if he lost. The match was very unequal, for Atalanta had conquered numbers, to their destruction. Hippomenes, therefore, had recourse to stra", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_147" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to contain a noble allegory of the contest betwixt art and nature. For art, here denoted by Atalanta, is much swifter, or more expeditious in its operations than nature, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to contain a noble allegory of the contest betwixt art and nature. For art, here denoted by Atalanta, is much swifter, or more expeditious in its operations than nature, when all obstacles and impediments are removed, and sooner arrives at its end. This appears almost i", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_148" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancients relate that man was the work of Prometheus, and formed of clay; only the artificer mixed in with the mass, particles taken from different animals. And being desirous to improve his workma...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancients relate that man was the work of Prometheus, and formed of clay; only the artificer mixed in with the mass, particles taken from different animals. And being desirous to improve his workmanship, and endow, as well as create, the human race, he stole up to heaven with a bundle of birch-ro", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_149" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They add that, for this meritorious act, Prometheus was repayed with ingratitude by mankind, so that, forming a conspiracy, they arraigned both him and his invention before Jupiter. But the matter was...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They add that, for this meritorious act, Prometheus was repayed with ingratitude by mankind, so that, forming a conspiracy, they arraigned both him and his invention before Jupiter. But the matter was otherwise received than they imagined; for the accusation proved extremely grateful to Jupiter and ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_150" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But men, foolishly overjoyed hereat, laid this present of the gods upon an ass, who, in returning back with it, being extremely thirsty, strayed to a fountain. The serpent, who was guardian thereof, w...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But men, foolishly overjoyed hereat, laid this present of the gods upon an ass, who, in returning back with it, being extremely thirsty, strayed to a fountain. The serpent, who was guardian thereof, would not suffer him to drink, but upon condition of receiving the burden he carried, whatever it sho", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_151" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Prometheus, not desisting from his unwarrantable practices, though now reconciled to mankind, after they were thus tricked of their present, but still continuing inveterate against Jupiter, had the bo...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Prometheus, not desisting from his unwarrantable practices, though now reconciled to mankind, after they were thus tricked of their present, but still continuing inveterate against Jupiter, had the boldness to attempt deceit, even in a sacrifice, and is said to have once offered up two bulls to Jupi", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_152" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And now giving way to revenge, but finding he could not chastise the insolence of Prometheus without afflicting the human race (in the production whereof Prometheus had strangely and insufferably prid...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And now giving way to revenge, but finding he could not chastise the insolence of Prometheus without afflicting the human race (in the production whereof Prometheus had strangely and insufferably prided himself), he commanded Vulcan to form a beautiful and graceful woman, to whom every god presented", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_153" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Lastly, Jupiter arraigned Prometheus of many heinous crimes; as that he formerly stole fire from heaven; that he contemptuously and deceitfully mocked him by a sacrifice of bones; that he despised his...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Lastly, Jupiter arraigned Prometheus of many heinous crimes; as that he formerly stole fire from heaven; that he contemptuously and deceitfully mocked him by a sacrifice of bones; that he despised his present,[641] adding withal a new crime, that he attempted to ravish Pallas; for all which, he was ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_154" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They relate, however, that his punishment had an end; for Hercules sailing the ocean, in a cup, or pitcher, presented him by the Sun, came at length to Caucasus, shot the eagle with his arrows, and se...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They relate, however, that his punishment had an end; for Hercules sailing the ocean, in a cup, or pitcher, presented him by the Sun, came at length to Caucasus, shot the eagle with his arrows, and set Prometheus free. In certain nations, also, there were instituted particular games of the torch, to", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_155" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable contains and enforces many just and serious considerations; some whereof have been long since well observed, but some again remain perfectly untouched. Prometheus clearly and e...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable contains and enforces many just and serious considerations; some whereof have been long since well observed, but some again remain perfectly untouched. Prometheus clearly and expressly signifies Providence; for of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man w", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_156" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "And it is not without reason added, that the mass of matter whereof man was formed, should be mixed up with particles taken from different animals, and wrought in with the clay, because it is certain,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: And it is not without reason added, that the mass of matter whereof man was formed, should be mixed up with particles taken from different animals, and wrought in with the clay, because it is certain, that of all things in the universe, man is the most compounded and recompounded body; so that the a", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_157" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Man, however, in his first origin, seems to be a defenceless, naked creature, slow in assisting himself, and standing in need of numerous things. Prometheus, therefore, hastened to the invention of fi...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Man, however, in his first origin, seems to be a defenceless, naked creature, slow in assisting himself, and standing in need of numerous things. Prometheus, therefore, hastened to the invention of fire, which supplies and administers to nearly all human uses and necessities, insomuch that, if the s", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_158" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The manner wherein Prometheus stole this fire is properly described from the nature of the thing; he being said to have done it by applying a rod of birch to the chariot of the Sun; for birch is used ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The manner wherein Prometheus stole this fire is properly described from the nature of the thing; he being said to have done it by applying a rod of birch to the chariot of the Sun; for birch is used in striking and beating, which clearly denotes the generation of fire to be from the violent percuss", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_159" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The next is a remarkable part of the fable, which represents that men, instead of gratitude and thanks, fell into indignation and expostulation, accusing both Prometheus and his fire to Jupiter,—and y...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The next is a remarkable part of the fable, which represents that men, instead of gratitude and thanks, fell into indignation and expostulation, accusing both Prometheus and his fire to Jupiter,—and yet the accusation proved highly pleasing to Jupiter; so that he, for this reason, crowned these bene", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_160" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That the perpetual flower of youth should be the present which mankind received as a reward for their accusation, carries this moral; that the ancients seem not to have despaired of discovering method...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That the perpetual flower of youth should be the present which mankind received as a reward for their accusation, carries this moral; that the ancients seem not to have despaired of discovering methods, and remedies, for retarding old age, and prolonging the period of human life; but rather reckoned", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_161" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "That this gift of perpetual youth should pass from men to serpents, seems added by way of ornament, and illustration to the fable; perhaps intimating, at the same time, the shame it is for men, that t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: That this gift of perpetual youth should pass from men to serpents, seems added by way of ornament, and illustration to the fable; perhaps intimating, at the same time, the shame it is for men, that they, with their fire, and numerous arts, cannot procure to themselves those things which nature has ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_162" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The sudden reconciliation of Prometheus to mankind, after being disappointed of their hopes, contains a prudent and useful admonition.\nIt points out the levity and temerity of men in new experiments, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The sudden reconciliation of Prometheus to mankind, after being disappointed of their hopes, contains a prudent and useful admonition.\nIt points out the levity and temerity of men in new experiments, when, not presently succeeding, or answering to expectation, they precipitantly quit their new under", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_163" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "After the fable has described the state of man, with regard to arts and intellectual matters, it passes on to religion; for after the inventing and settling of arts, follows the establishment of divin...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: After the fable has described the state of man, with regard to arts and intellectual matters, it passes on to religion; for after the inventing and settling of arts, follows the establishment of divine worship, which hypocrisy presently enters into and corrupts. So that by the two sacrifices we have", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_164" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "After thus touching the state of religion, the fable next turns to manners, and the conditions of human life. And though it be a very common, yet is it a just interpretation, that Pandora denotes the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: After thus touching the state of religion, the fable next turns to manners, and the conditions of human life. And though it be a very common, yet is it a just interpretation, that Pandora denotes the pleasures and licentiousness which the cultivation and luxury of the arts of civil life introduce, a", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_165" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is worth observing, how beautifully and elegantly the fable has drawn two reigning characters in human life, and given two examples, or tablatures of them, under the persons of Prometheus and Epime...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is worth observing, how beautifully and elegantly the fable has drawn two reigning characters in human life, and given two examples, or tablatures of them, under the persons of Prometheus and Epimetheus.\nThe followers of Epimetheus are improvident, see not far before them, and prefer such things ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_166" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But the followers of Prometheus are the prudent, wary men, that look into futurity, and cautiously guard against, prevent, and undermine many calamities and misfortunes. But this watchful, provident t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But the followers of Prometheus are the prudent, wary men, that look into futurity, and cautiously guard against, prevent, and undermine many calamities and misfortunes. But this watchful, provident temper, is attended with a deprivation of numerous pleasures, and the loss of various delights, whils", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_167" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor indeed can any man obtain this end without the assistance of Hercules; that is, of such fortitude and constancy of mind as stands prepared against every event, and remains indifferent to every cha...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor indeed can any man obtain this end without the assistance of Hercules; that is, of such fortitude and constancy of mind as stands prepared against every event, and remains indifferent to every change; looking forward without being daunted, enjoying the good without disdain, and enduring the bad ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_168" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is added, with great elegance, for supporting and confirming the human mind, that the great hero who thus delivered him sailed the ocean in a cup, or pitcher, to prevent fear, or complaint; as if, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is added, with great elegance, for supporting and confirming the human mind, that the great hero who thus delivered him sailed the ocean in a cup, or pitcher, to prevent fear, or complaint; as if, through the narrowness of our nature, or a too great fragility thereof, we were absolutely incapable", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_169" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We have hitherto, that we might not break the connection of things, designedly omitted the last crime of Prometheus—that of attempting the chastity of Minerva—which heinous offence it doubtless was, t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We have hitherto, that we might not break the connection of things, designedly omitted the last crime of Prometheus—that of attempting the chastity of Minerva—which heinous offence it doubtless was, that caused the punishment of having his liver gnawed by the vulture. The meaning seems to be this,—t", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_170" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The last particular in the fable is the Games of the Torch, instituted to Prometheus, which again relates to arts and sciences, as well as the invention of fire, for the commemoration and celebration ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The last particular in the fable is the Games of the Torch, instituted to Prometheus, which again relates to arts and sciences, as well as the invention of fire, for the commemoration and celebration whereof these games were held. And here we have an extremely prudent admonition, directing us to exp", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_171" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These are the particulars which appear to us shadowed out by this trite and vulgar fable, though without denying that there may be contained in it several intimations that have a surprising correspond...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These are the particulars which appear to us shadowed out by this trite and vulgar fable, though without denying that there may be contained in it several intimations that have a surprising correspondence with the Christian mysteries. In particular, the voyage of Hercules, made in a pitcher, to rele", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_172" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Mediocrity, or the holding a middle course, has been highly extolled in morality, but little in matters of science, though no less useful and proper here; whilst in politics it is held suspected, and ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Mediocrity, or the holding a middle course, has been highly extolled in morality, but little in matters of science, though no less useful and proper here; whilst in politics it is held suspected, and ought to be employed with judgment. The ancients described mediocrity in manners by the course presc", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_173" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Icarus, being to fly across the sea, was ordered by his father neither to soar too high nor fly too low, for, as his wings were fastened together with wax, there was danger of its melting by the sun’s...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Icarus, being to fly across the sea, was ordered by his father neither to soar too high nor fly too low, for, as his wings were fastened together with wax, there was danger of its melting by the sun’s heat in too high a flight, and of its becoming less tenacious by the moisture if he kept too near t", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_174" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—The fable is vulgar, and easily interpreted; for the path of virtue lies straight between excess on the one side, and defect on the other. And no wonder that excess should prove the bane ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—The fable is vulgar, and easily interpreted; for the path of virtue lies straight between excess on the one side, and defect on the other. And no wonder that excess should prove the bane of Icarus, exulting in juvenile strength and vigor; for excess is the natural vice of youth, as defe", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_175" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "In matters of the understanding, it requires great skill and a particular felicity to steer clear of Scylla and Charybdis. If the ship strikes upon Scylla, it is dashed in pieces against the rocks; if...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: In matters of the understanding, it requires great skill and a particular felicity to steer clear of Scylla and Charybdis. If the ship strikes upon Scylla, it is dashed in pieces against the rocks; if upon Charybdis, it is swallowed outright. This allegory is pregnant with matter; but we shall only ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_176" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They relate that Sphinx was a monster, variously formed, having the face and voice of a virgin, the wings of a bird, and the talons of a griffin. She resided on the top of a mountain, near the city Th...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They relate that Sphinx was a monster, variously formed, having the face and voice of a virgin, the wings of a bird, and the talons of a griffin. She resided on the top of a mountain, near the city Thebes, and also beset the highways. Her manner was to lie in ambush and seize the travellers, and hav", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_177" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This is an elegant, instructive fable, and seems invented to represent science, especially as joined with practice. For science may, without absurdity, be called a monster, being strangel...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This is an elegant, instructive fable, and seems invented to represent science, especially as joined with practice. For science may, without absurdity, be called a monster, being strangely gazed at and admired by the ignorant and unskilful. Her figure and form is various, by reason of t", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_178" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Sphinx is said to propose various difficult questions and riddles to men, which she received from the Muses; and these questions, so long as they remain with the Muses, may very well be unaccompanied ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Sphinx is said to propose various difficult questions and riddles to men, which she received from the Muses; and these questions, so long as they remain with the Muses, may very well be unaccompanied with severity, for while there is no other end of contemplation and inquiry but that of knowledge al", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_179" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Sphinx has no more than two kinds of riddles, one relating to the nature of things, the other to the nature of man; and correspondent to these, the prizes of the solution are two kinds of empire,—the ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Sphinx has no more than two kinds of riddles, one relating to the nature of things, the other to the nature of man; and correspondent to these, the prizes of the solution are two kinds of empire,—the empire over nature, and the empire over man. For the true and ultimate end of natural philosophy is ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_180" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But the riddle proposed to Œdipus, the solution whereof acquired him the Theban kingdom, regarded the nature of man; for he who has thoroughly looked into and examined human nature, may in a manner co...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But the riddle proposed to Œdipus, the solution whereof acquired him the Theban kingdom, regarded the nature of man; for he who has thoroughly looked into and examined human nature, may in a manner command his own fortune, and seems born to acquire dominion and rule.\nAccordingly, Virgil properly mak", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_181" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is with the utmost elegance added in the fable, that when Sphinx was conquered, her carcass was laid upon an ass; for there is nothing so subtile and abstruse, but after being once made plain, inte...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is with the utmost elegance added in the fable, that when Sphinx was conquered, her carcass was laid upon an ass; for there is nothing so subtile and abstruse, but after being once made plain, intelligible, and common, it may be received by the slowest capacity.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_182" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "We must not omit that Sphinx was conquered by a lame man, and impotent in his feet; for men usually make too much haste to the solution of Sphinx’s riddles; whence it happens, that she prevailing, the...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: We must not omit that Sphinx was conquered by a lame man, and impotent in his feet; for men usually make too much haste to the solution of Sphinx’s riddles; whence it happens, that she prevailing, their minds are rather racked and torn by disputes, than invested with command by works and effects.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_183" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "They tell us, Pluto having, upon that memorable division of empire among the gods, received the infernal regions for his share, despaired of winning any one of the goddesses in marriage by an obsequio...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: They tell us, Pluto having, upon that memorable division of empire among the gods, received the infernal regions for his share, despaired of winning any one of the goddesses in marriage by an obsequious courtship, and therefore through necessity resolved upon a rape.\nHaving watched his opportunity, ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_184" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to regard natural philosophy, and searches deep into that rich and fruitful virtue and supply in subterraneous bodies, from whence all the things upon the earth’s surface...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable seems to regard natural philosophy, and searches deep into that rich and fruitful virtue and supply in subterraneous bodies, from whence all the things upon the earth’s surface spring, and into which they again relapse and return. By Proserpine, the ancients denoted that ethe", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_185" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "It is an honor justly attributed to Proserpine, and not to any other wife of the gods, that of being the lady or mistress of her husband, because this spirit performs all its operations in the subterr...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: It is an honor justly attributed to Proserpine, and not to any other wife of the gods, that of being the lady or mistress of her husband, because this spirit performs all its operations in the subterraneal regions, whilst Pluto, or the earth, remains stupid, or as it were ignorant of them.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_186" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ether, or the efficacy of the heavenly bodies, denoted by Ceres, endeavors with infinite diligence to force out this spirit, and restore it to its pristine state. And by the torch in the hand of C...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ether, or the efficacy of the heavenly bodies, denoted by Ceres, endeavors with infinite diligence to force out this spirit, and restore it to its pristine state. And by the torch in the hand of Ceres, or the ether, is doubtless meant the sun, which disperses light over the whole globe of the ea", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_187" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The second article of agreement, that of Proserpine’s remaining six months with her mother and six with her husband, is an elegant description of the division of the year; for the spirit diffused thro...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The second article of agreement, that of Proserpine’s remaining six months with her mother and six with her husband, is an elegant description of the division of the year; for the spirit diffused through the earth lives above-ground in the vegetable world during the summer months, but in the winter ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_188" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The attempt of Theseus and Perithous to bring Proserpine away, denotes that the more subtile spirits, which descend in many bodies to the earth, may frequently be unable to drink in, unite with themse...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The attempt of Theseus and Perithous to bring Proserpine away, denotes that the more subtile spirits, which descend in many bodies to the earth, may frequently be unable to drink in, unite with themselves, and carry off the subterraneous spirit, but on the contrary be coagulated by it, and rise no m", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_189" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The alchemists will be apt to fall in with our interpretation of the golden bough, whether we will or no, because they promise golden mountains, and the restoration of natural bodies from their stone,...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The alchemists will be apt to fall in with our interpretation of the golden bough, whether we will or no, because they promise golden mountains, and the restoration of natural bodies from their stone, as from the gates of Pluto; but we are well assured that their theory had no just foundation, and s", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_190" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The ancient poets relate that Jupiter took Metis to wife, whose name plainly denotes counsel, and that he, perceiving she was pregnant by him, would by no means wait the time of her delivery, but dire...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The ancient poets relate that Jupiter took Metis to wife, whose name plainly denotes counsel, and that he, perceiving she was pregnant by him, would by no means wait the time of her delivery, but directly devoured her; whence himself also became pregnant, and was delivered in a wonderful manner; for", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_191" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable, which in its literal sense appears monstrously absurd, seems to contain a state secret, and shows with what art kings usually carry themselves towards their council, in order ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable, which in its literal sense appears monstrously absurd, seems to contain a state secret, and shows with what art kings usually carry themselves towards their council, in order to preserve their own authority and majesty not only inviolate, but so as to have it magnified and h", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_192" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Nor are kings content to have this seem the effect of their own authority, free will, and uncontrollable choice, unless they also take the whole honor to themselves, and make the people imagine that a...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Nor are kings content to have this seem the effect of their own authority, free will, and uncontrollable choice, unless they also take the whole honor to themselves, and make the people imagine that all good and wholesome decrees proceed entirely from their own head, that is, their own sole prudence", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_193" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "INTRODUCTION.—The fable of the Sirens is, in a vulgar sense, justly enough explained of the pernicious incentives to pleasure; but the ancient mythology seems to us like a vintage ill-pressed and trod...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: INTRODUCTION.—The fable of the Sirens is, in a vulgar sense, justly enough explained of the pernicious incentives to pleasure; but the ancient mythology seems to us like a vintage ill-pressed and trod; for though something has been drawn from it, yet all the more excellent parts remain behind in the", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_194" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "FABLE.—The Sirens are said to be the daughters of Achelous and Terpsichore, one of the Muses. In their early days they had wings, but lost them upon being conquered by the Muses, with whom they rashly...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: FABLE.—The Sirens are said to be the daughters of Achelous and Terpsichore, one of the Muses. In their early days they had wings, but lost them upon being conquered by the Muses, with whom they rashly contended; and with the feathers of these wings the Muses made themselves crowns, so that from this", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_195" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "These Sirens resided in certain pleasant islands, and when, from their watch-tower, they saw any ship approaching, they first detained the sailors by their music, then, enticing them to shore, destroy...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: These Sirens resided in certain pleasant islands, and when, from their watch-tower, they saw any ship approaching, they first detained the sailors by their music, then, enticing them to shore, destroyed them.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_196" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Their singing was not of one and the same kind, but they adapted their tunes exactly to the nature of each person, in order to captivate and secure him. And so destructive had they been, that these is...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Their singing was not of one and the same kind, but they adapted their tunes exactly to the nature of each person, in order to captivate and secure him. And so destructive had they been, that these islands of the Sirens appeared, to a very great distance, white with the bones of their unburied capti", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_197" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Two different remedies were invented to protect persons against them, the one by Ulysses, the other by Orpheus. Ulysses commanded his associates to stop their ears close with wax; and he, determining ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Two different remedies were invented to protect persons against them, the one by Ulysses, the other by Orpheus. Ulysses commanded his associates to stop their ears close with wax; and he, determining to make the trial, and yet avoid the danger, ordered himself to be tied fast to a mast of the ship, ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_198" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "EXPLANATION.—This fable is of the moral kind, and appears no less elegant than easy to interpret. For pleasures proceed from plenty and affluence, attended with activity or exultation of the mind.[651...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: EXPLANATION.—This fable is of the moral kind, and appears no less elegant than easy to interpret. For pleasures proceed from plenty and affluence, attended with activity or exultation of the mind.[651] Anciently their first incentives were quick, and seized upon men as if they had been winged, but l", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_199" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "This conquest redounded greatly to the honor and ornament of the Muses; for after it appeared, by the example of a few, that philosophy could introduce a contempt of pleasures, it immediately seemed t...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: This conquest redounded greatly to the honor and ornament of the Muses; for after it appeared, by the example of a few, that philosophy could introduce a contempt of pleasures, it immediately seemed to be a sublime thing that could raise and elevate the soul, fixed in a manner down to the earth, and", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_200" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "Only the mother of the Sirens was not thus plumed on the head, which doubtless denotes superficial learning, invented and used for delight and levity; an eminent example whereof we have in Petronius, ...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: Only the mother of the Sirens was not thus plumed on the head, which doubtless denotes superficial learning, invented and used for delight and levity; an eminent example whereof we have in Petronius, who, after receiving sentence of death, still continued his gay frothy humor, and as Tacitus observe", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_201" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The Sirens are said to inhabit certain islands, because pleasures generally seek retirement, and often shun society. And for their songs, with the manifold artifice and destructiveness thereof, this i...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The Sirens are said to inhabit certain islands, because pleasures generally seek retirement, and often shun society. And for their songs, with the manifold artifice and destructiveness thereof, this is too obvious and common to need explanation. But that particular of the bones stretching like white", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_202" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The allegory of the remedies against the Sirens is not difficult, but very wise and noble; it proposes, in effect, three remedies, as well against subtile as violent mischiefs, two drawn from philosop...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The allegory of the remedies against the Sirens is not difficult, but very wise and noble; it proposes, in effect, three remedies, as well against subtile as violent mischiefs, two drawn from philosophy and one from religion.", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_203" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "The first means of escaping is to resist the earliest temptation in the beginning, and diligently avoid and cut off all occasions that may solicit or sway the mind; and this is well represented by shu...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: The first means of escaping is to resist the earliest temptation in the beginning, and diligently avoid and cut off all occasions that may solicit or sway the mind; and this is well represented by shutting up the ears, a kind of remedy to be necessarily used with mean and vulgar minds, such as the r", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_204" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But nobler spirits may converse, even in the midst of pleasures, if the mind be well guarded with constancy and resolution. And thus some delight to make a severe trial of their own virtue, and thorou...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But nobler spirits may converse, even in the midst of pleasures, if the mind be well guarded with constancy and resolution. And thus some delight to make a severe trial of their own virtue, and thoroughly acquaint themselves with the folly and madness of pleasures, without complying or being wholly ", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_205" }, { "instruction": "Explain this passage from your works as if speaking to a contemporary scholar:", "input": "But the most excellent remedy, in every temptation, is that of Orpheus, who, by loudly chanting and resounding the praises of the gods, confounded the voices, and kept himself from hearing the music o...", "output": "In this passage, I discuss: But the most excellent remedy, in every temptation, is that of Orpheus, who, by loudly chanting and resounding the praises of the gods, confounded the voices, and kept himself from hearing the music of the Sirens; for divine contemplations exceed the pleasures of sense, not only in power but also in", "source": "The wisdom of the Ancients", "segment_id": "The wisdom of the Ancients_para_206" } ]