[14] No student I suppose would willingly be without the volume here quoted, “Francis Bacon”, by Edwin A. Abbott.
[15] Rawley’s dedication, 1627, of the Natural History to Charles the First.
[16] Advancement of Learning. Book I.
[17] The art of prolonging life was, he thought, one of the most desirable.
[18] He “bequeathed” his soul and body to God. “For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages.”
[19] Rawley in the dedication of 1627 uses this expression as if it were Bacon’s rather than his own.
[20] I am not aware that in its integrity it is shared by anyone.
[21] More easily by far than Mr. Shakespeare’s neglect of his supposed poetical issue more especially after his retirement to Stratford. What was there, what would there be in the Stratford of those days with its Quineys, Harts, Sadlers, Walkers, and the rest, to interest a spirit so finely touched as Shakespeare’s? But this is too large a question to be discussed here.
[22] James I is reported to have said of the Novum Organum: “It is like the peace of God which passeth all understanding.”
[23] Bacon’s tripartite division of knowledge—history with memory for its organ, poetry with imagination, and philosophy with reason—is well known. When he made this division the poetic use of the imagination was one which few may have known better than he. That he was equally well acquainted with the scientific use of the imagination is highly improbable.