Excerpt from The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 4 of 5: With Prefaces and Notes

That the state of knowledge is not prosperous nor greatly advancing and that a wag must be opened for the human understanding en tirely di¿'erent from any hitherto known, and other helps provided, in order that the mind may exercise over the nature of things the authority which properly belongs to it.

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