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what he uttered. His hearers could 
not cough, or look aside from him, 
without loss. He commanded when 
he spoke, ‘ the fear of every man that 
heard him was that he should make 
an end.” 
Bacon’s most ambitious work, that 
which he himself considered his great- 
est, is the ‘Novum Organum ;”’ as 
its title indicates, it is an attempt to 
furnish a new rule, or system, or in- 
strument of thought, by which the 
intellect might be helped to break 
through obstacles, to accomplish tasks 
and to gather knowledge which had 
hitherto been beyond its power. It 
was a gigantic task, worthy the powers 
of amaster mind. But the Baconian 
philosophy has been found too cum- 
brous for practical use; the work it 
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could do can be done more easily 
another way. This may be said, how- 
ever: If Science has not followed the 
Baconian method, if while we pay 
homage to the name of Bacon as one 
who led the human mind out from the 
jungle of medizeval scholasticism we 
decline to follow his leading, he did 
much by breaking the bondage of the 
intellect to old systems, to prepare the 
way for the Renascence and the Re- 
formation. Bacon’s philosophy, un- 
workable as it may have proved as 
intellectual machinery, has this in its 
praise ; it disabused the human mind 
of age-long error, and laid down prin- 
ciples which have brought forth fruit 
in all the regions of thought. Bacon 
may be said to mark the influx of 
Idealism into England, and where that 
goes, as Emerson says, ‘‘is poetry, 
health and progress.’’ 
Of Bacon’s malversation in office, 
of the charges of corruption which 
mar his fair fame and drag his ermine 
in the mire, we have little room, and 
less heart to speak. He did not ex- 
culpate himself, but he could truly say 
that his fault was a venial one in that 
corrupt age. ‘I was the justest judge 
in England these fifty years ; but it 
was the justest censure in Parliament 
that was these two hundred years.’’ 
His fine was remitted and he was 
pardoned, but the next year he died. 
In his confession to the House of 
Lords we hear the cry of a wounded 
spirit, “I beseech your Lordships to 
-be merciful to a broken reed.”’ Grasp- 
ing one day a volume, he exclaimed, 
“Surely, for this only was I fitted.” 
It would have been well if he had 
made learning his sole pursuit, and 
abjured the world of politics and the 
court, where his love of display, his 
extravagant habits, and his timidity 
exposed him to temptation and in- 
volved him in entanglements which 
proved too strong for his moral nature ; 
teaching us that the most ignoble 
motives have sometimes force over 
the noblest minds, and that none of 
us are beyond the need of the prayer, 
“« Lead us not into temptation.”’ 
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Year Income Outgo Assets Liabilities Ins. in force 
1885} $806,318! $ 704,440| $2,747,497| $2,494,932) $252,565} $21,466,371 
PROGRESS for Last 20 Years = 1886 984,567 852,705| 2,875,581] 2,616,410 259,171| 26,784,420 
1887] 1,197,979] 1,011,934} 3,070,649] 2,831,361 239,288] 32,936,204 
1888] 1,480,163} 1,243,544] 3,317,224] 3,044,414] 272,810} 39,311,096 
— 1889| 1,799,543] 1,535,946] 3,548,080] 3,265,017) 283,063) 45,879,657 
1890} 2,180,022} 1,780,033] 3,967,910} 3,626,104; 341,806] 55,803,940 
No Words can speak the Praises — 1891] 2,572,368} 2,179,470} 4,381,591) 4,038,311) 343,280) 65,108,734 
1892} 3,144,613} 2,484,597! 5,061,651] 4,632,627. 429,024] 78,138,546 
of the JOHN HANCOCK better 1893] 3,747,183} 3,069,684) 5,788,917| 5,308,856, 485,061] 88,961,727 
1894] 4,192,734] 3,818,588] 6,673,255] 6,116,745] 556,510] 102,149,180 
than these Cold Figures: (E™ =—s 1895) 5,006,132] 4,063,416) 7,664,909) 7,058,809] 606,100! 120,955,471 
1896] 5,627,025} 4,521,193! 8,814,124) 8,169,956] 644,168) 135,095,272 
Mee 1897| 6,240,282) 4,706,502) 10,482,330) 9,580,612} 901,718) 150,613,389 
1898) 7,043,159! 5,214,239] 12,495,946] 11,160,519| 1,335,427) 167,138,344 
1899] 7,843,143] 5,889,977] 14,491,826] 12,918 761| 1,578,065) 192,573,498 
THEY SPEAK 1900] 8,986,736] 6,780,472| 16,889,953] 15,012,619| 1,877,334) 221,032,536 
VOLUMES 1901| 10,212,255] 7,564,723] 19,688,832) 17,397,755) 2,291,077| 250,218,289 
. 1902} 11,998,193] 8,549,088] 23,217,728] 20,466,810) 2,750,918 288,358,118 
1903| 13,572,734| 9,591,329] 27,133,640] 24,124,581| 3,009,059] 319,674,386 
tae 1904| 14,941,657| 10,644,247| 31,707,626] 28,268,598] 3,439,028] 856,173,163 
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