The Advancement of LearningPaul Dry Books, 1. mars 2001 - 263 sider Francis 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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... former falsely conceives of nature as if it were God; the latter falsely conceives of nature as a godlike extension of God. To describe the e¤ects of such thinking, Bacon uses the example of an eyelash (Book Two, VII. 7). When one ...
... former of these I hope I shall not live to be wanting, according to my most humble duty, and the good pleasure of your Majesty's employments: for the latter, I thought it more respective to make choice of some oblation, which might ...
... former, concerning the excellency of Learning and Knowledge, and the excellency of the merit and true glory in the augmentation and propagation thereof: the latter, what the particular acts and works are, which have been embraced and ...
... former sort say, that Knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution; that the as- piring to overmuch knowledge was the original temptation and sin whereupon ensued the fall of man; that ...
... former clause: for so he saith,Knowledge bloweth up, but Charity buildeth up; not unlike 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 ...