Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 The Secret Bard "Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority." -- Francis Bacon "But when I searched, I found no work so meritorious as the discovery and development of the arts and inventions that tend to civilise the life of man." -- Francis Bacon "That extra-ordinary genius, when it was impossible to write a history of what was known, wrote one of what it …

…Dawkins, Dedication to the Light, (The Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1987) PP 38-39 6. Ibid, P 42 7. Idid, P 38 8. Ibid, P 48 9. Ibid, P 58 10. Ibid, P 48 11. Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story, P 138 12. Dedication to the Light, PP 49-50 13. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, XXI, 2 14. Francis Bacon, Preface to Magna Instauratio 15. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, (Washington Square Press, 1961), P 142 16. Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story, P 551 17. Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story, P 550 For more see: Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning