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Updated: May 9, 2025
All the teachers of Excellent Beauty in the Moral Life bear witness to the truth of Bacon's saying. Look at the Sermon on the Mount: no doubt about the "Strangeness in the Proportion" there! Socrates and Jesus, unlike as they were, so far as we are able to discern, were yet both marked by the same horror of counters. Sooner than employ them they would die.
But after the first impulse had resulted in a few learned societies, their manifest advantage was so evident that additional numbers increased rapidly, until at present almost every branch of every science is represented by more or less important bodies; and these are, individually and collectively, adding to knowledge and stimulating interest in the many fields of science, thus vindicating Lord Bacon's asseverations that knowledge could be satisfactorily promulgated in this manner.
He was at once the Mammon and the Surly of his friend Ben. Sir Epicure did not indulge in visions more magnificent and gigantic, Surly did not sift evidence with keener and more sagacious incredulity. Closely connected with this peculiarity of Bacon's temper was a striking peculiarity of his understanding.
Compare his style with Bacon's, Swift's, Addison's, and Gibbon's. Goldsmith. What change did She Stoops to Conquer bring to the stage? What qualities keep the play alive? Johnson. Representative selections are given in Craik, IV., 141-185. Let the student who has the time read Johnson's Dryden entire. Compare the style of Johnson with that of Gibbon and Burke.
In fact the governor was inclined to believe that he had been "the original cause of the whole rebellion." We know that Lawrence and Drummond stood at Bacon's elbow from the beginning to the end. The importance of the part they played may be gauged by the bitterness of Berkeley's resentment.
BACON'S PLACE AND WORK. Although Bacon was for the greater part of his life a busy man of affairs, one cannot read his work without becoming conscious of two things, a perennial freshness, which the world insists upon in all literature that is to endure, and an intellectual power which marks him as one of the great minds of the world.
Ten years after the charter was granted to the Royal Society of London, Lord Bacon's words took practical effect in Germany, with the result that the Academia Naturae Curiosorum was founded, under the leadership of Professor J. C. Sturm.
In Lord Bacon's letters, on which she laid her finger as she spoke, she had discovered the key and clue to the whole mystery. Thus the terrible prohibition to remove the stone was accounted for.
So that, if by studying Roger Bacon's life or his books we could get into touch with his mind and acquire some of that special moving and inspiring quality of his, it would help us far more than would the mere knowledge of the optician.
The handsome maiden, a daughter of Alderman Barnham, soon after consented to become Sir Francis's lady. The death of Elizabeth, though on the whole it improved Bacon's prospects, was in one respect an unfortunate event for him.
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