INTRODUCTION. 



itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife 

 and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not 

 a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the 

 relief of man s estate.&quot; The rest of the First Book 

 was given to an argument upon the Dignity of Learn 

 ing; and the Second Book, on the Advancement of 

 Learning, is, as Bacon himself described it, &quot; a general 

 and faithful perambulation of learning, with an in 

 quiry what parts thereof lie fresh and waste, and not 

 improved and converted by the industry of man; to 

 the end that such a plot made and recorded to memory 

 may both minister light to any public designation and 

 also serve to excite voluntary endeavours.&quot; Bacon 

 makes, by a sort of exhaustive analysis, a ground-plan 

 of all subjects of study, as an intellectual map, helping 

 the right inquirer in his search for the right path. 

 The right path is that by which he has the best chance 

 of adding to the stock of knowledge in the world some 

 thing worth labouring for ; and the true worth is in 

 labour for &quot;the glory of the Creator and the relief of 



man s estate.&quot; 



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