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14
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:409-10.
15
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:411.
16
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:343.
17
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:343-44.
18
Robert Faulkner,
Francis Bacon and the Project of Progress
(Boston: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1993), 236-39.
19
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:129 (emphasis in original).
20
Bacon,
Work s
, 4:7.
21
Bacon,
Work s
, 4:247-48.
22
Sagan,
Cosmos
, 345.
23
E. O. Wilson,
Consilience
:
The Unity of Knowledge
(New York: Knopf, 1998),
262.
24
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:141-43.
25
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:146.
26
Mircea Eliade,
The Myth of the Eternal Return
, trans. W. R. Trask (New York:
Pantheon, 1954), 7, 17.
27
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:144.
28
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:151-54.
29
Merton,
Sociology of Science
,” 273-75. Jerry Weinberger has interpreted this
negatively as an indication of the moral and spiritual dangers coinciding with
scientific development. Weinberger, Introduction to
New Atlantis and the
Great Instauration
, by Francis Bacon, ed. Jerry Weinberger, rev. ed. (Wheeling,
Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1989), xxxii. Faulkner (
Project of Progress
, 235) inter-
prets Bensalemite secrecy as serving the “rhetorical function” of sustaining
its visionary aspirations by masking those operations about which it does not
wish to speculate. Whitney (
Francis Bacon
, 198) regards this as an anticipation
of modernism with its “one-way flow of profit and sovereignty of transna-
tional capital over nations.”
30
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:285-87. Robert Ellis, in this edition (287n), derives this
interpretation of Bacon's “fierce with dark keeping” from the supposition
that it alludes to a corresponding Latin fragment that is also quoted in this
paragraph.
31
Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science
(Washington, D.C.: National
Academies, 1998), 29. Quotation courtesy of the National Academies Press.
32
Collingwood,
Idea of History
, 49-50.
33
Bacon,
Work s
, 3:221.
34
Bacon,
Work s
, 4:91-92. Bacon quotes Luke 17:20.
35
Bacon,
Work s
, 4:91.
36
Bacon,
Work s
, 4:92.
