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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... means " great renewal , ” again seems to promise an invigoration of what had come before . But in his preliminary remarks , Bacon makes it clear that he is bent on a " total reconstruction of sciences , arts , and all human knowledge ...
... means that every thing has its specific purpose and thus its own special excellence and that the various things in nature are connected in harmonious motion toward some final end . It makes no difference , according to Bacon , if such a ...
... or immediate times ; and lastly , the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one man's means can hold way with a common purse . 4. And as for those particular seducements or indispositions of 12 FRANCIS BACON.
... means, or in respect of privateness of life and meanness of employments. 2. Concerning want, and that it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little, and not to grow rich so fast as other men by rea- son they convert not ...
... means were to be spent upon Learning, and not Learning to be applied to means. And as for the pri- vateness, or obscureness (as it may be in vulgar estimation accounted) of life of contemplative men; it is a theme so common to extol a ...