...economic development of North America can hardly be told without thinking of it as a story of "enlarging the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Even when Teddy Roosevelt thundered against the land skinners who were destroying the natural resources...

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

...Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. knowledge. In his book New Atlantis (1624), Bacon says, "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."12 He is explicit about the possible benefits of science: "We do publish such new profitable...

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

...technological Utopia ruled by experts ( The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and 185 secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the...empire, to the effecting of all things possible') - are arguably the true ancestors of Marxist 'scientific' socialism as well as of later technocratic...

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

...for the sole purpose of interpreting nature and of producing great works for the benefit of man: for the "enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (71). The systematic use of knowledge and the control of nature through science, Bacon argues, make...

...remarkable work. When the Europeans have an audience with a Father of Solomon's House, they are told: "The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things" (WFB, 3:156). Their investigations produce new artificial metals, which are used for curing diseases,...