And with the _Novum Organum_ was at length disclosed, though only in outline, the whole of the vast scheme in all its parts, object, method, materials, results, for the "Instauration" of human knowledge, the restoration of powers lost, disused, neglected, latent, but recoverable by honesty, patience, courage, and industry.
The _Instauratio_, as he planned the work, "is to be divided," says Mr.Ellis, "into six portions, of which the _first_ is to contain a general survey of the present state of knowledge.

In the _second_, men are to be taught how to use their understanding aright in the investigation of nature.

In the _third_, all the phenomena of the universe are to be stored up as in a treasure-house, as the materials on which the new method is to be employed.

In the _fourth_, examples are to be given of its operation and of the results to which it leads.

The _fifth_ is to contain what Bacon had accomplished in natural philosophy _without_ the aid of his own method, _ex eodem intellectus usu quem alii in inquirendo et inveniendo adhibere consueverunt_.