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intrigues of a Court and the affairs of his exalted employment which alone were enough to engross his whole time he yet found so much leisure for study as to make himself a great philosopher a good historian and an elegant writer and a still

more surprising circumstance is that he lived in an age in which the art of writing justly and elegantly was little known much less true philosophy Lord Bacon as is the fate of man was more esteemed after his than in his lifetime His enemies were in the British Court and his admirers were foreigners When the Marquis dEffiat attended in England upon the Princess Henrietta Maria daughter to Henry IV whom King Charles I had married that Minister went and visited the Lord Bacon who being at that time sick in his bed received him with the curtains shut close You resemble the angels says the Marquis to him we hear those beings spoken of perpetually and we believe them superior to men but are never allowed the consolation to see them You know that this great man was accused of a crime very unbecoming a philosopher I mean bribery and extortion You know that he was sentenced by the House of Lords to pay a fine of about four French livres to lose his peerage and his dignity of Chancellor but in the present age the English revere his memory to such a degree that they will scarce allow him to have been guilty In case you should ask what are my thoughts on this head I shall answer you in the words which I heard the Lord Bolingbroke use on another occasion Several gentlemen were speaking in his company of the avarice with which the late Duke of Marlborough had been charged some examples whereof being given the Lord Bolingbroke was appealed to who having been in the opposite party might perhaps without the imputation of indecency have been allowed to clear up that matter He was so great a man replied his lordship that I have forgot his vices I shall therefore confine myself to those things which so justly gained Lord Bacon the esteem of all Europe The most singular and the best of all his pieces is that which at this time is the most useless and the least read I mean his Novum Scientiarum Organum This is the scaffold with which the new philosophy was raised and when the edifice was built part of it at least the scaffold was no longer of service The Lord Bacon was not yet acquainted with Nature but then he knew and pointed out the several paths that lead to it He had despised in his younger years the thing called philosophy in the Universities and did all that lay in his power to prevent those societies of men instituted to improve human reason from depraving it by their quiddities their horrors of the vacuum their substantial forms and all those impertinent terms which not only ignorance had rendered venerable but which had been made sacred by their being ridiculously blended with religion He is the father of experimental philosophy It must indeed be confessed that very surprising secrets had been found out before his timethe seacompass printing engraving on copper plates oil painting lookingglasses the art of restoring in some measure old men to their sight by spectacles gunpowder &c had been discovered A new world had been fought for found and conquered Would not one suppose that these sublime discoveries had been made by the greatest philosophers and in ages much more enlightened than the present But it was far otherwise all these great changes happened in the most stupid and barbarous times Chance only gave birth to most of those inventions and it is very probable that what is called chance contributed very much to the discovery of America at least it has been always thought that Christopher Columbus undertook his voyage merely on the relation of a captain of a ship which a storm had driven as far westward as the Caribbean Islands Be this as it will men had sailed round the world and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than the real one but then they were not acquainted with the circulation of the blood the of the air the laws of motion light the number of our planets &c And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotles Categories on the universals a parte rei or such like nonsense was looked upon as a prodigy

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