New Atlantis E-book
Author: Francis Bacon
Genre: Government / Economics, Literature, Philosophy, Science
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) English philosopher and essayist who served
as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor under King James I.
New Atlantis (1629) Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis," first written in
Latin, was published in 1629, three years after its author's death.
Bacon placed his Ideal Commonwealth in those seas where Australia
was even then supposed to be, but had not as yet been discovered.
In Bacon's ideal world of the New Atlantis, Science is the civilizer
that binds man to man and also leads him to the love of God.
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