The Great Bacon he is Calld I call him the Little Bacon says that Every Thing must be

done by Experiment his first princip[le] is Unbelief And Yet here he says that Art

must be producd Without such Method. He is Like Sr Joshu[ a] full of Self-

Contradiction & Knavery!

There is a rule, obtained out of general nature. . . .

What is General Nature is there Such a Thing

what is General Knowledge is there such a Thing [Strictly Speaking]All Knowledge is

Particular

[P 62] . . . it may be objected, that in every particular species there are various central forms. . . .

Here he loses sight of A Central Form. & Gets into Many Central Forms

[P 63] . . . still none of them is the representation of an individual, but of a class.

Every Class is Individual

. . . . in each of these classes. . . . childhood and age. . . there is a common form. . . .

There is no End to the Follies of this Man Childhood & Age are Equally, belonging to

Every Class

. . . that form which is taken from them all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the

Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and. . . .

Here he comes again to his Central Form

[P 64] There is . . . a kind of symmetry, or proportion, which may properly be said to belong to

deformity. A figure lean or corpulent. . . though deviating from beauty. . . .

The Symmetry of Deformity is a Pretty Foolery

Can any Man who Thinks. [argue]so? Leanness or Fatness is not Deformity.

but Reynolds thought Character Itself Extravagance & Deformity

Age & Youth are not Classes but [Accidents] [] of Each

Class so are Leanness & Fatness

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