…of woman and child, a very touching and beautiful symbol. But again, the Chinese were very realistic people, and they knew, as Bacon said, that women and children were hostages to fortune, and a man who has given hostages to fortune is impeded in many…

…in the 17th century we have a very important change in the technique of thought the new kind of thinking which is adumbrated by Bacon and is comes to a kind of perfection in Galileo and Descartes and Newton and Leibniz and which forms the which is the…

…down a number of general ideas of extreme importance for the development of science in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Bacon was chiefly hostile to was the philosophy, above all the scholastic philosophy, and even the Greek philosophy which underlay the…

…to Aristotle, who after all was a rather important scientific observer. And there are a number of very remarkable passages in Bacon where he talks about the real wickedness of these philosophers. He speaks of Plato and Aristotle as guilty men. And there's…

…the one hand and the humanistic religious and the ethical on the one hand and the objectively scientific on the other because as Bacon was never tired of saying knowledge without love can be profoundly corrupt and even evil and it was for this that he…

…have made statements so wildly sweeping and who dismissed so cavalierly enormous areas of human experience. And to these people certainly Bacon would have brought a reproach that they were A, overweening and B, lacking in the love which alone can make…