_The Forerunners; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy_.
6.

_The New Philosophy; or Active Science_.
_The Arguments of the several Parts_.
It being part of my design to set everything forth, as far as may be, plainly and perspicuously (for nakedness of the mind is still, as nakedness of the body once was, the companion of innocence and simplicity), let me first explain the order and plan of the work.

I distribute it into six parts.
The first part exhibits a summary or general description of the knowledge which the human race at present possesses.

For I thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached.

And I hold the improvement of that which we have to be as much an object as the acquisition of more.