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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... touched , yea , and possessed with an extreme wonder at those your virtues and faculties , which the Philosophers call intellectual ; the largeness of your capacity , the faith- fulness of your memory , the swiftness of your ...
... touching the first of these , Salomon doth excellently expound himself in another place of the same book , where he saith : 16 I saw well that knowledge recedeth as far from ignorance as light doth from darkness ; and that the wise ...
... touching the discredits drawn from the fortunes of learned men . 4. As touching the manners of learned men , it is a thing personal and individual : and no doubt there be amongst them , as in other pro- fessions , of all temperatures ...
... touching the point of manners of learned men . 9. But in the mean time I have no purpose to give allowance to some conditions and courses base and unworthy , wherein divers professors of learning have wronged themselves and gone too far ...
... touched before , not the natural knowledge of creatures , but the moral knowledge of good and evil ; wherein the supposition was that God's commandments or prohibitions were not the originals of good and evil , but that they had other ...