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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... speak- ing of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear with hearing ; 12 and if there be no fulness , then is the continent greater than the ...
... speak with the tongues of men and angels , but because , if it be severed from char- ity , and not referred to the good of men and mankind , it hath rather a sounding and unworthy glory , than a meriting and 7 ་ THE ADVANCEMENT OF ...
... speak somewhat of the two former. The derogations therefore which grow to Learning from the fortune or condition of learned men, are either in respect of scarcity of means, or in respect of privateness of life and meanness of ...
... have no meaning at this time to make any exact animadversion of the errors and impediments in matters of learning , which are more secret and remote from vulgar opinion , but only to speak unto such as do 22 FRANCIS BACON.
Francis Bacon. opinion , but only to speak unto such as do fall under or near unto a popular observation . 2. There be therefore chiefly three vanities in studies , whereby learn- ing hath been most traduced . For those things we do ...