The Advancement of LearningFrancis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... hands ? Bacon could not propose his revolution in learning without considering , as delicately as he could , these and many similar questions . And consider them he did , in the array of writings on philosophy ... hand XIII INTRODUCTION.
Francis Bacon. among modern science and technology , on the one hand , and politics , religion , and morality , on the other . It is hard to imagine a book more attuned to our times . In his personal life , Bacon may have been a ...
... hand to hand , and many other inconveniences , whereunto the condition of man is subject . For that nothing parcel of the world is denied to man's inquiry and in- vention , he doth in another place rule over , when he saith , The spirit ...
... that ever any government was disastrous that was in the hands of learned governors.28 For howsoever it hath been ordinary with politique men to extenuate and disable learned men by 11 THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING BOOK ONE •
... hands of Pedantes : for so was the state of Rome for the first five years , which are so much magnified , during the minority of Nero , in the hands of Seneca , a Pedanti ; so it was again , for ten years ' space or more , during the ...