 | Dennis Desroches - Science - 2006 - 237 pages
...best conceived as having 'established forever a true and lawful marriage between the empirical and rational faculty, the unkind and ill-starred divorce...into confusion all the affairs of the human family' (14). Still again, Bacon will say towards the end of Book I of the Novum that 'my course and method,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 506 pages
...as if invention were nothing more than an exercise of thought, to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles. I, on the contrary, dwelling purely...and fervently pray to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, that remembering the sorrows of mankind and the pilgrimage of this our life... | |
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And by these means I suppose that I have established for ever a true and lawful marriage between the empirical and the rational faculty, the unkind and ill-starred divorce and separation of which has thrown into confusion all the affairs of the human... 
