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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... principles of estate , than those which have ascended to the pa- pacy from an education and breeding in affairs of estate and courts of princes ; for although men bred in learning are perhaps to seek in points of convenience and ...
... principles and rules . If it mislead by disproportion or dis- similitude of examples , it teacheth men the force of circumstances , the errors of comparisons , and all the cautions of application ; so that in all these it doth rectify ...
... principles may despise it , yet it will receive an open al- lowance , and therefore needs the less disproof or excusation . 7. Another fault incident commonly to learned men , which may be more probably defended than truly denied , is ...
... principles , did represent unto them . And thus much for the second disease of learning . 8 . 9. This facility of credit and accepting or admitting things. For the third vice or disease of learning , which concerneth deceit or untruth ...
... principle of nature , that putrefaction is more contagious be- fore maturity than after : and another noteth a position of moral philos- ophy , that men abandoned to vice do not so much corrupt manners , as those that are half good and ...