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Show I TODAY IN HISTORY SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. In London 310 years ago today was born one of the most Illustrious of all philosophers, Sir Francis JUacon, of whom 1'opo said; "Lord Bacon was tho greatest great-est genius that England, or perhaps any other country, ever produced." In mirly life Bacon manifest erl superior powers and anient love of knowledge, ills precocious Intelligence was so great and his sedatenOER so remarkable that Queen Elizabeth look pleasure In calling him her "young lord keeper." At the age of IS ho entered the University of Cambridge, which he quitted In two years with a low opinion of the course of study pursued there. At an early ago Bacon undertook the I study of law, and was admitted to tho bar when only 21 years of age, and two years afterward entered parliament. Mis radical methods Incurred the enmity of Elizabeth, and he lost his friend and protector, and consequently his political career was somewhat blighted. How-ovor, How-ovor, with the advent of the reign of James I a now opportunity opened to Bacon, and by paying court to the king he made rapid progross. Ho was knighted knight-ed In ttJOS. Yet even up to the time of his death In 162C, bin political life was. on tho whole, not an achievement, of which ho could vcll bo proud. Ills glory Is his literary and sclcnlitlc work. In the history of literature Bacon Is mainly known as tho writer of the "Essays"; "Es-says"; but In tho history of science, logic and philosophy, the chief Interest which attaches to his name Is that of a reformer of scientific mothods. Ma-cauloy, Ma-cauloy, the historian, says of him; "Bacon "Ba-con moved the Intellects which have moved tho world." What Bacon says of Plato In, his greater work, "Novum Or-ganum," Or-ganum," Is pre-eminently true of himself: him-self: "lie was a man of a sublime genius, who took n view of everything as from a high rock." Maxims such as these: "Man Is the servant and interpreter of nature," "Human "Hu-man knowledge and human power moot In one" "Truth 13 rightly called tho daughter of time, not of authority. ' "Tho worst thing of all Is the apotheosis of error." sparkle on almost every page of the "Novum Organum,' and llvo long In the memory, in a way which wc hardly hard-ly ilnd paralleled in any other author, except In Shakespeare. |