CHAPTER VIII.

History, Poetry, Philosophy ...... 153

Bacon's suspicious definition of History and Poetry — Their
close relationship as past history made present or visible — The
number of Chronicle Histories in the 1623 Folio — Bacon's tri-
partite foundations of Learning, or Faculties of the Soul —
Memory — Imagination — Reason— Makes Poetry one of the eman-
ations of the Soul, on which Science is based — Nevertheless
confesses, "Poetry is not a knowledge, but a play of wit" —
Enigmatic character of "The Advancement of Learning" —
Bacon identifies History with Custody or Memory — His art of
Tradition or Delivery or transferring those things laid up in
the memory to others, &c.