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The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. Excerpt from An Account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon Scientiarum (Classic Reprint)
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To accomplish this design with the more effect, it will be desirable, first, to draw their attention, in a few words, to the state in which Bacon found the world, as to knowledge and science, at the time when he flourished. For, as the returning light appears more glorious after the sun has been eclipsed and the order and beauty of nature would look doubly striking to an eye that had seen that chaos from which she first arose, when all was without form and void, so, if we glance, but for a moment, at that darkness which so long overshadowed the human mind, and gave birth to so many phantoms and prodigies, under the name of science, this retrospect will serve to show more clearly the merits of a philosopher, who may be regarded as the morning star of that illustrious day which has since broken out upon mankind; and in the spirit of whose method, even the immortal NEWTON himself explored the heavens by the aid of a sublime geometry, as with the rod of an enchanter, dashed in pieces all the cycles, epicycles, and crystal orbs of a visionary antiquity ;and established the true Copernican doctrine of astronomy on the solid basis of a most rigid and infallible demonstration. In several of the fine arts, in which chiefly the taste and imagination are concerned, such as poetry, rhetoric, statuary, and archi tecture, the ancients, according to general opinion, have equalled, if not surpassed, any of the moderns. Homer and Demosthenes con tinue, notwithstanding the flux of time, to retain their station as the masters of eloquence arid song; and those exquisite statues, the Venus and the A pollo, still command our admiration as perfect models of what is chaste, and severe, and beautiful in the art of sculpture. The ancients nobly distinguished themselves also in those more rigorous exercises of the understanding which are demanded by pure mathematics; in proof of which
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