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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... truth; which is, that there hath not been since Christ's time any King or temporal Monarch, which hath been so learned in all literature and erudition, divine and human. For let a man seriously and diligently revolve and peruse the ...
... Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of Philosophy may incline the mind of man to Atheism, but a further proceeding therein ...
... truth by force of eloquence and speech.26 2. But these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant, that both in persons and in times, there hath been a 10 ...
... truth. For to say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, it is to a‹rm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. And it is without all ...
... truth, and sell it not; and so of wisdom and knowledge;40 judging that means were to be spent upon Learning, and not Learning to be applied to means. And as for the privateness, or obscureness (as it may be in vulgar estimation ...