LIFE OF BACON. Xlll 



So deeply was Bacon impressed with the magnitude of 

 this evil, that, by his will he endowed two lectures in 

 either of the universities, by &quot; a lecturer, whether stranger 

 or English, provided he is not professed in divinity, law, 

 or physic.&quot;(^) 



The subject of universities, and the importance to the Atlantis. 

 community and to the advancement of science, that the 

 spring should not be poisoned or polluted, was ever present 

 to his mind, and, in the decline of his life, he prepared 

 the plan of a college for the knowledge of the works and 

 creations of God, &quot; from the cedar of Libanus to the moss 

 that groweth out of the wall :&quot; but the plan was framed 

 upon a model so vast, that, without the purse of a prince 

 and the assistance of a people, all attempts to realize it 

 must be vain and hopeless. Some conception of his gor 

 geous mind in the formation of this college, may appear 

 even at the entrance. 



&quot; We have (he says,) two very long and fair galleries : 

 in one of these we place patterns and samples of all man 

 ner of the more rare and excellent inventions ; in the 

 other we place the statues of all principal inventors. There 

 we have the statue of your Columbus, that discovered the 

 West Indies ; also the inventor of ships ; your monk that 

 was the inventor of ordnance and of gunpowder ; the in 

 ventor of music the inventor of letters ; the inventor of 

 printing; the inventor of observations of astronomy; the 

 inventor of works in metal ; the inventor of glass ; the in 

 ventor of silk of the worm ; the inventor of wine ; the in 

 ventor of corn and bread ; the inventor of sugars ; and all 

 these by more certain tradition than you have. Upon 

 every invention of value, we erect a statue to the inventor, 

 and give him a liberal and honourable reward. These 



(w?) See note M at the end. 



