CHAPTER VIII 



SIB FRANCIS BACON THE ORIGIN OF THE IN- 

 DUCTIVE PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC 

 INVESTIGATION OF NATURE. 



FRANCIS BACON, Viscount St. Albans and Baron 

 VeruJam, Lord High Chancellor of England (1561- 

 1626) was born in London. His father was Sir 

 Nicholas Bacon, a zealous Protestant, for twenty 

 years keeper of the Great Seal, and one of the Com- 

 missioners appointed by Queen Elizabeth to take 

 cognizance of the charges made against Mary Stuart 

 by the Scots. 



His mother was a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, 

 formerly tutor to Edward VI. She was (as mothers 

 of great men generally have been) a woman of ex- 

 cellent mind. She was learned in many ways ; had 

 translated and published from the Italian the Ser- 

 mons of Ochine, and from the Latin those of Jewel. 

 She possessed true piety and all the feminine virtues. 

 Her sons, Anthony and Francis, received their early 

 education at her hands alone. One of her sisters was 



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