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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... hath God given your Majesty a composition of understand- ing admirable , being able to compass and comprehend the greatest matters , and nevertheless to touch and apprehend the least ; whereas it should seem an impossibility in nature ...
... hath received , all from ignorance ; but ignorance sev- erally disguised , appearing sometimes in the zeal and jealousy of Divines ; sometimes in the severity and arrogancy of Politiques ; and sometimes in the errors and imperfections ...
... hath made all things beautiful , or decent , in the true return of their seasons : Also he hath placed the world in man's heart , yet cannot man find out the work which God worketh from the beginning to the end : 13 declaring not ...
... eloquence and speech . 2. But these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that 26 both in persons and in times, there hath been a 10 FRANCIS BACON.
Francis Bacon. both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and concur- rence in Learning and Arms ... hath been ordinary with politique men to extenuate and disable learned men by 11 THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING BOOK ONE •