The New Atlantis: (Francis Bacon Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508935841)

(2) I hear the former sort say that knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution; that the aspiring to overmuch knowledge was the original temptation and sin whereupon ensued the fall of man; that knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and, therefore, where it entereth into a man it makes him swell; Scientia inflat; that Solomon gives a censure, "That there is no end of making books, and that much reading is weariness of the flesh;" and again in another place, "That in spacious knowledge there is much contristation, and that he that increaseth knowledge increaseth anxiety;" that Saint Paul gives a caveat, "That we be not spoiled through vain philosophy;" that experience demonstrates how learned men have been arch-heretics, how learned times have been inclined to atheism, and how the contemplation of second causes doth derogate from our dependence upon God, who is the first cause.

Author: Francis Bacon
ISBN-10: 150893584X
ISBN-13: 9781508935841
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2015
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d