Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Biographical Notes on Persons Cited or Mentioned by Joseph de Maistre -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon -- PART ONE: LOGIC AND THE RATIONAL SCIENCES -- 1 Novum organum - Induction and Syllogism -- Appendix to Chapter 1 -- 2 Of Experience and of the Genius of Discoveries -- 3 Continuation of the Same Subject -- 4 Of Essences and of Their Definitions -- 5 Cosmology and the System of the World -- 6 The Ebb and Flow of the Seas -- 7 Motion -- 8 Natural History and General Physics -- 9 Optics - The Progression of Light -- 10 Experiments and Physical Explanations -- 11 Meteorology -- 12 The General Goal of Bacon's Philosophy -- BOOK TWO: METAPHYSICS -- 1 Of God and of Intelligence -- 2 Of the Soul -- 3 Of the Origin of Spontaneous Motion and of Motion in General -- 4 Of the Senses and of the Sensible Principle -- 5 Of Matter and of the Principle of Things -- 6 Final Causes -- 7 The Union of Religion and Science -- 8 Bacon's Religion -- 9 Bacon Judged by his Translator - Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.