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&quot; THE Tvvoo Bootes of Francis Bacon. Of the pro- 

 ficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and 

 humane. To the King. At London. Printed for 

 Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at 

 Graies Inne Gate in Holborne. 1605.&quot; That was the 

 original title-page of the book now in the reader s 

 hand a living book that led the way to a new world of 

 thought. It was the book in which Bacon, early in 

 the reign of James the First, prepared the way for a 

 full setting forth of his New Organon, or instrument 

 of knowledge. 



The Organon of Aristotle was a set of treatises in 

 which Aristotle had written the doctrine of proposi 

 tions. Study of these treatises was a chief occupation 

 of young men when they passed from school to college, 

 and proceeded from Grammar to Logic, the second of 

 the Seven Sciences. Francis Bacon as a youth of 

 sixteen, at Trinity College, Cambridge, felt the 

 unfruitfulness of this method of search after truth. 

 He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen 

 Elizabeth s Lord Keeper, and was born at York House, 

 in the Strand, on the 22nd of January, 1561. His 

 mother was the Lord Keeper s second wife, one of 

 two sisters, of whom the other married Sir William 

 Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh. Sir Nicholas Bacon 



