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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... unto my mind, and beholding you not with the inquisitive eye of presumption, to discover that which the Scripture telleth me is inscrutable,1 but with the observant eye of duty and admiration; leaving aside the other parts of your ...
... unto your Majesty a better oblation than of some Treatise tending to that end, whereof the sum will consist of these two parts; the former, concerning the excellency of Learning and Knowledge, and the excellency of the merit and true ...
... unto other creatures in Paradise,11 as they were brought before him, according unto their proprieties, which gave the occasion to the fall: but it was the proud knowledge of good and evil, with an intent in man to give law unto himself ...
... unto that which he delivereth in another place:If I spake, saith he, with the tongues ofmen and angels, and had not charity, it were but as a tinkling cymbal;15 not but that it is an excellent thing to speak with the tongues of men and ...
... unto himself the Nature or Will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy: for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God ...