Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 The Secret Bard "Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority." -- Francis Bacon "But when I searched, I found no work so meritorious as the discovery and development of the arts and inventions that tend to civilise the life of man." -- Francis Bacon "That extra-ordinary genius, when it was impossible to write a history of what was known, wrote one of what it …showed first 75 words of 2239 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2239 total…Dawkins, Dedication to the Light, (The Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1987) PP 38-39 6. Ibid, P 42 7. Idid, P 38 8. Ibid, P 48 9. Ibid, P 58 10. Ibid, P 48 11. Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story, P 138 12. Dedication to the Light, PP 49-50 13. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, XXI, 2 14. Francis Bacon, Preface to Magna Instauratio 15. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, (Washington Square Press, 1961), P 142 16. Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story, P 551 17. Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story, P 550 For more see: Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning