Divine and Kingly Glory Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, “The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of […]
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Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning
Nothing can fill, much less extend the soul of man, but God and the contemplation of God. — Francis Bacon In Defence of the Pursuit of Knowledge It was not the pure knowledge of Nature and universality, a knowledge by the light whereof man did give names unto other creatures in Paradise as they were brought before him according unto their proprieties, which gave the occasion to the fall; but […]
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Francis Bacon: The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Counsel of State The ancients set forth in figure, both the incorporation, and inseparable conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the wise and politic use of counsel by kings: the one, in that they say Jupiter did marry Metis, which signifieth that Sovereignty is married to Counsel; the other in that which followeth: after Jupiter was married to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, but Jupiter suffered […]
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Francis Bacon: New Atlantis
The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. New Atlantis is a Utopia ruled by scientist-kings, viz. the elite with supreme knowledge of causes of Nature. Bacon’s vision is awe-inspiring, in both senses of the word. On the one hand, it is mind-boggling to ponder the vast […]
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