Date: c. 1603
"By your vague inductions you took men's minds off their guard and weakened their mental sinews."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: c. 1603
"When, however, you gave out the falsehood that truth is, as it were, the native inhabitant of the human mind and need not come in from, outside to take up its abode there; when you turned our minds away from observation, away from things, to which it is impossible we should ever be sufficiently ...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)