. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. THE cliaracter and career ofLord Bacon are full of start-ling contrasts. Conscious ofgreat intellectual ability, lieearly aimed to reconstruct thesystem of liuman to be tlie founder ofa new philosophy, whichshould accomplish what thatof Aristotle had failed to do,he sought for wealth and powerby crooked ways. Pope hassummed up the moral of hislife in the well-known lines : If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined;The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. Francis Bacon was born in London,
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. THE cliaracter and career ofLord Bacon are full of start-ling contrasts. Conscious ofgreat intellectual ability, lieearly aimed to reconstruct thesystem of liuman to be tlie founder ofa new philosophy, whichshould accomplish what thatof Aristotle had failed to do,he sought for wealth and powerby crooked ways. Pope hassummed up the moral of hislife in the well-known lines : If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined;The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. Francis Bacon was born in London, on the 2 2d of January,1561, being the younger son of Sir Nicholas Bacon. At theage of twelve he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, and atfifteen began the study of law. His intellectual capacity wasearly recognized, and even when he sought from his uncle,Lord Burghley, a place at court, he declared that he subordi-nated everything to his contemplative ends. His suit wasin vain, but after being called to the bar in 1582, he enteredParliament. He urged upon Queen Elizabeth a po
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