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CHAPTER I Vocation

CHAPTER II The Second Attempt: Burleigh

Wisdom in discourse with her

Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.

CHAPTER III The Third Attempt: Essex

“Were now the general of our gracious empress,

As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,

Bringing rebellion broached on his word....”

CHAPTER IV The Turning-Point: the House of Commons

CHAPTER V “ The Advancement of Learning ”

CHAPTER VI The Approach to Great Place

CHAPTER VII The Lord Chancellor

CHAPTER VIII The “Novum Organum”

CHAPTER IX The Removal of Preservation

Auctori concilium

Instaurare paras veterum documenta sophorum;

Instaura leges, justitiamque prius.

It deserveth not to be read in schools,

But to be freighted in the Ship of Fools.

’Tis very just they blame

The thing that’s not.

CHAPTER X The Final Energy

CHAPTER XI Francis Bacon

This

Stands as a child laughing to see the sun,

Immortal, incorruptible, sovereign truth;

Blessed be God who hath made our souls for truth!

A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY

INDEX