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37
Bacon, Work s , 3:220-1, 340.
38
Sessions, Bacon Revisited , 153.
39
Bacon, Work s , 3:343.
40
Bacon, Work s , 3:137-38.
41
Bacon, Work s , 3:137-38.
42
Bacon, Work s , 3:137.
43
Scholars who focus on the modernist features of Bacon's rhetoric certainly
do recognize its millenarian features, but they discount their relevance. Hans
Blumenberg achieves this by treating this aspect of Bacon's writing as a mere
indulgence of his audience, and Robert Faulkner does so by attributing the
religious elements to a Machiavellian motive. Hans Blumenberg, The Legiti-
macy of the Modern Age , trans. Robert Wallace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1983); see also Faulkner, Project of Progress , 15. Whitney's understanding of the
modern aspects of Bacon's thought ( Francis Bacon , 9-15) is more consistent
with my own reading.
44
Margarita Mathiopoulos, History and Progress: In Search of the European and
American Mind (New York: Praeger, 1989), 13.
Chapter 4
Epigraph: Reinhold Niebuhr, Human Nature , vol. 1 of The Nature and Destiny of Man
(1941; reprint, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964), 95.
1
Quoted in Richard H. Popkin, “Condorcet and Hume and Turgot,” in Con-
dorcet Studies II , ed. David Williams (New York: Peter Lang, 1984), 61; Louis de
Bonald, Observations sur un ouvrage posthume de Condorcet, intitulé Esquisse d'un
Tableau historique des progrès humain , in Œuvres complète de M. de Bonald, (Petit
Montrouge: Migne, 1859), 1:721-22.
2
Carl Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1932), 102. This theme comprises much
of Eric Voegelin's From Enlightenment to Revolution , ed. John H. Hallowell (Dur-
ham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1975), 3-194.
3
Jacob Salwyn Schapiro, Condorcet and the Rise of Liberalism (New York: Octa-
gon, 1963), 105.
4
Steve Fuller, Concepts in the Social Sciences: Science (Buckingham, U.K.: Open
University Press, 1998), 4-6.
5
Roger Hahn, The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sci-
ences, 1666-1803 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), 162-68,
193, 205-22.
6
This has been noted by two historians of the French Enlightenment, Peter
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