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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... received , all from ignorance ; but ignorance sev- erally disguised , appearing sometimes in the zeal and jealousy of Divines ; sometimes in the severity and arrogancy of Politiques ; and sometimes in the errors and imperfections of ...
... received ever since till this day . Let this therefore serve for answer to Politiques , which in their hu- morous severity , or in their feigned gravity , have presumed to throw imputations upon Learning ; which redargution nevertheless ...
... received authors or principles , did represent unto them . And thus much for the second disease of learning . 8 . 9. This facility of credit and accepting or admitting things. For the third vice or disease of learning , which concerneth ...
... received and registered reports and narrations of mir- acles wrought by martyrs, hermits, or monks of the desert, and other holy men, and their relics, shrines, chapels, and images: which though they had a passage for a time by the ...
... received thereby, as the principal cause that hath kept them low at a stay without growth or advancement. For hence it hath come, that in arts mechanical the first deviser comes shortest, and time addeth and perfecteth; but in sciences ...