Bacon

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S HONORARY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE
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EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.
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But this does not diminish the debt of gratitude which all who are interested about Bacon must owe to Mr. Spedding. I wish also to acknowledge the assistance which I have received from Mr. Gardiner's History of England and Mr. Fowler's edition of the Novum Organum ; and not least from M. de Rémusat's work on Bacon, which seems to me the most complete and the most just estimate both of Bacon's char
acter and work which has yet appeared; though even in this clear and dispassionate survey we are reminded by some misconceptions, strange in M. de Rémusat, how what one nation takes for granted is incomprehensible to its neighbour; and what a gap there is still, even in matters of philosophy and literature, between the whole Continent and ourselves—
Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos.