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FRANCIS BACON

OF VERULAM.

CHAPTER I.

BACON OF VERULAM AS A MORAL AND SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER.

THE great intellectual achievements of a man are never so utterly distinct and separable from his life that he can be one person in his worldly career, and entirely another in the emanations of his mind. There is always a certain correspondence between the moral and the scientific character, and a mistake has been made when the character of Bacon has been excepted from the law of such an analogy. On the other hand, this law would be very wrongly applied if we attributed certain moral blemishes and delinquencies affecting the life of Bacon to his scientific

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