Excerpt from Selections From the Works of Lord Bacon: Comprising the Prefaces to the Instauratio Magna and Novum Organum, the Distributio Operis, and the Fifth and Seventh Books De Augmentis Scientiarum
IN preparing for publication the following Selections from Lord Bacon's writings, one of the principal objects kept in view was to exhibit a correct text, the editions in common use being very defective. N o labour has been spared on this department, and it is hoped few errors have found their way into this impression.
With respect to the Translation, the method pursued has been to adhere with literal exactness. To the words of the text. The difficulty of this can be duly appreciated only by those who make a similar attempt. A free translation would be an easier and more agreeable task, but would be useless for the purpose for which the book was designed, namely, the practical use of the student, and, at the same time, wholly unsuited to the singularly compressed and oracular style of the original.
In the Notes will be found incorporated almost every pas sage in the N ovum Organum which serves to illustrate the text, together with the opinions of the most eminent philosophical writers on the same subjects since Bacon's time.
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IN preparing for publication the following Selections from Lord Bacon's writings, one of the principal objects kept in view was to exhibit a correct text, the editions in common use being very defective. N o labour has been spared on this department, and it is hoped few errors have found their way into this impression.
With respect to the Translation, the method pursued has been to adhere with literal exactness. To the words of the text. The difficulty of this can be duly appreciated only by those who make a similar attempt. A free translation would be an easier and more agreeable task, but would be useless for the purpose for which the book was designed, namely, the practical use of the student, and, at the same time, wholly unsuited to the singularly compressed and oracular style of the original.
In the Notes will be found incorporated almost every pas sage in the N ovum Organum which serves to illustrate the text, together with the opinions of the most eminent philosophical writers on the same subjects since Bacon's time.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comwww.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621.
There are some scholars who believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel The New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, in the Pacific Ocean west of Peru. He envisioned a land where there would be greater rights for women, the abolishing of slavery, elimination of debtors' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of religious and political expression. Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland.
Thomas Jefferson considered Francis Bacon to be one of the three greatest men who ever lived, "Bacon, Locke and Newton" were "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilized his writings in their own belief systems.
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