The Advancement of Learning

Фрэнсис Бэкон

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английский

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Complete work

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Written by the author

ccx074@pglaf.org Changed “considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditious, and changes” to “considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes”. CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY. * * * * * THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. BY FRANCIS BACON. [Picture: Decorative graphic] CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited: _LONDON_, _PARIS & MELBOURNE_. 1893. INTRODUCTION. “THE TVVOO Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane. To the King. At London. Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne. 1605.” That was the original title-page of the book now in the reader’s hand—a living book that led the way to a new world of thought. It was the book in which Bacon, early in the reign of James the First, prepared the way for a full setting forth of his New Organon, or instrument of knowledge. The Organon of Aristotle was a set of treatises in which Aristotle had thought. It was the book in which Bacon, early in the reign of James the First, prepared the way for a full setting forth of his New Organon, or instrument of knowledge. The Organon of Aristotle was a set of treatises in which Aristotle had written the doctrine of propositions. Study of these treatises was a chief occupation of young men when they passed from school to college, and proceeded from Grammar to Logic, the second of the Seven Sciences. Francis Bacon as a youth of sixteen, at Trinity College, Cambridge, felt the unfruitfulness of

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