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" The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. "
Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 65
by George Lillie Craik - 1846
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Science in Culture

Piotr Jaroszyński - 2007 - 314 pages
...motions to expand the boundaries of human empire and the ability to influence all things. As Bacon said, "The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions: and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."5 Science...
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Ideal Commonwealths

Various - 2007 - 240 pages
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Russian Culture, Property Rights, and the Market Economy

Uriel Procaccia - 2007 - 1 pages
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George Herbert's "Holy Patterns": Reforming Individuals in Community

Greg Miller - 2007 - 200 pages
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The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility

Elliott M. Simon - 2007 - 622 pages
...which interpreted nature for "the glory of God and the betterment of mankind." The Elder declares that "the End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes,...bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."160 Bacon assumes that Solamona's empirical process of interpreting the mysteries of nature...
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Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell

Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pages
...Novum Organon and his vivid fable in the New Atlantis, where the Father of Salomon's House explains, "The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes,...bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."10 Among these, We have also parks and enclosures of all sorts of beasts and birds, which...
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The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization

Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy - 2007 - 356 pages
...more, seem to provide the potential to make the word 'network' mean something else again. NEW ATLANTIS 'The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes,...the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all tilings possible.' Francis Bacon's (1561—1626) mysterious UTOPIA borrows the ancient name of ATLANTIS...
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Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914

Christine MacLeod - 2007 - 0 pages
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Aquinas and Kant: The Foundations of the Modern Sciences

Gavin Ardley - 2007 - 272 pages
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The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, William R. Newman - 2007 - 341 pages
...need for artificial coloring, high heels, and beauty care."1 ' The denizens of Salomon's House seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things;...Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible." And they too can alter nature in crucial respects — for example, by changing the normal course of...
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