Bacon : Francis (1561-1626), English lawyer, courtier, statesman, philosopher, writer, best-known for his Essays.
... gusto and ingenuity are his characteristic, while, if Bacon was anything, he was an intellectual. Shakespeare put into his dramas all that he was or knew: why is the typical Baconian note utterly absent, the note of intellectual contemplation, the note of philosophico-scientific thinking? Surely, a writer creates out of himself: how is it that Bacon in writing Shakespeare left his own essential nature... the dramas. The absence of such pressure rules out Bacon completely. The third and final argument is related to the second and it is phrased by Sri Aurobindo himself. "There is," he begins, "often more thought in a short essay of Bacon's than in a whole play of Shakespeare's." Then, referring to a poem that is known to have been composed by Bacon, Sri Aurobindo remarks: "As he showed when he tried... Baconis nati." The sentence translates: "These plays preserved for the world (are) born of F. Bacon." The Shakespearians are expected to be impressed into dumbfounded defeat. Unfortunately, they are not so easily cowed down. They may well ask: "What about the word's occurrence in Nashe? Should we make Bacon the author of all of Nashe's plays?" I suppose the Baconians would gnash their teeth on hearing ...
... employed by Sri Aurobindo in his humorous utterances. (1)From Nicholas Bacon: Sir Nicholas Bacon, a Tudor judge in the time of Elizabeth, was once importuned by a criminal to spare his life on account of kinship. "How so?" demanded the judge. "Because my name is Hog and yours is Bacon; and hog and bacon are so near akin that they cannot be separated." "Ay," responded the judge... judge dryly, "but you and I cannot yet be kindred - for hog is not bacon until it is well hanged." 7 (2) From Edmund Waller: Edmund Waller had written a lengthy "Panegyrick" to Oliver Cromwell the Protector. When the Restoration came about after Cromwell's death, the same Waller was not long in singing the "Happy Return" of Charles. When King Charles read this second poem, addressed to himself ...
... That contemporary is no less a figure than Francis Bacon whom several scholars consider to have secretly penned the plays and used Shakespeare as a convenient facade. Unfortunately for these scholars Bacon has left us some verse under his own name and we have just to hear it together with the Macbeth-lines in order to realise not only that Bacon was a mediocre poet but also that he functioned from... semi-didactic verse. Not a trace of the vivida vis from the vital consciousness that breathes in any pronouncement on life and death we may pick out from the famous dramas . While we are about Bacon we may quote what Sri Aurobindo says in another context - the discussion of "Sight" as "the essential poetic gift" which renders Homer, Shake-speare, Dante, Valmiki, Kalidasa supreme poets. "There is ...
... intellectual contemplation; while, if Bacon was anything, he was an intellectual. Shakespeare dragged into his plays all that he was or knew: why is that element not there which most distinguished Bacon's mentality — his half philosophical half scientific thinking, the "Novum Organum" note? If a writer creates even in part out of himself, how is it that Bacon in writing Shakespeare left his essential... picturesque heroes and glittering courtiers, every head was buzzing with diplomatic questions raised by unsettled thrones and touch-and-go balances of power? Besides, it is not likely that Bacon who was most apprehensive about the lasting value of the English language and wished all his works to be written in Latin should have spent Page 88 years creating masterpieces in... essential nature out? Milton, Wordsworth, even Shelley had, unlike Shakespeare, an intellectual substance and their rhythm reflects it; Bacon too would have given his dramas some touch at least of an inspiration uttering in a dynamic or moved or illuminative language the ideas of the pure intelligence. Shakespeare's thought springs from an exuberance of the life-energy; a vivid excitement of feeling and ...
... philosophic turn of thought and that is why all attempts to ascribe his plays to Bacon who was a thinker on philosophical lines are as futile as attempts to show Bacon to be poetically gifted. Sri Aurobindo sees more thought-power in a single essay of Bacon's than in a whole drama of Shakespeare's and he marks how Bacon, in his one authenticated experiment in writing poetry, is sadly hampered by the ...
... Eternals, is packed into the short "Preludium". And we may affirm that Blake's theme in his longer poems is, in different garbs, the same as in The First Book of Urizen - essentially the combating of the Bacon-Locke-Newton philosophy of a mechanical universe outside Mind, independent of Mind, instead of being organic part of it within an infinitude of Universal Divine Humanity. The Christian-Miltonic antecedents... our poem. This need not seem odd, for, on any interpretation the poem stands out by itself in several respects "and does not at all join to Blake's concern with the rational-scientific materialism of Bacon, 229. Ibid., p. 226 (ibid., pl. 7, 1 .8). 230. Ibid., p. 222 (ibid., pl. 3, Ch. I, 11.1-5). Page 213 Locke and Newton. Even Raine's reading does not bring in that concern:... Self-annihilation & the grandeur of Inspiration, "To cast off Rational Demonstration by Faith in the Saviour, "To cast off the rotten rags of Memory by Inspiration, "To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albion's covering, "To take off his filthy garments & clothe him with Imagination... "These are the destroyers of Jerusalem, these are the murderers "Of ...
... Gnosticism. From Gnosticism came the cosmological concept, a theory about 'the elements of the world' (Col. 2:8)." We should then hardly be surprised when Benjamin W. Bacon 75 tells us how in Matthew's period - c. 90 AD according to Bacon, which is almost the same as Brown's estimate* - Gnostic Docetism, with the Jew Cerinthus at Ephesus as its principal exponent, was trying to reduce Jesus to a ...
... put it in my care-free ir- reverence. I knew, indeed, that I was a seeker, but a seeker still vowed to Reason as his conscience-keeper. The motto of the great Paul Valerie still rang in my ears: "Bacon dirait que cet intellect est un idol. J'y consens, mais je n'en ai trouvé de meilleur. "* At the same time, my father's mysticism recurred to me: the devotional songs he had composed towards the... take equal care of him in the next! But, unlike them, I was in a peculiar position, a dilemma: on the one hand I was called to cut away from my moorings here ________________________ * "Bacon would say that the intellect is an idol. I agree, but I have yet to find a better one." (A L'EGARD DBS CHOSES ACTUELLES). Page 20 and now while, on the other, I had not yet won anything ...
... was God who wanted her to rule England. Her second asset was the team of talented and dedicated advisers she chose and assembled around her, especially in her Privy Council: William Cecil, Nicholas Bacon, Francis Walsingham, Nicholas Trockmorton, Robert Dudley. Together with them, but always making the final decisions herself, she set about solving the problems and building England into the power it... Georges Chapman; of the musicians Thomas Tallis and William Byrd; of the seafarers and explorers Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Martin Frobisher, John Davies and John Hawkins; of the philosopher Francis Bacon; of John Dee, the occultist and court astrologer; of the scientists William Gilbert, Thomas Harriot and Walter Warner. These are but a few of the many that became legendary. Elizabeth knew them all ...
... such person as Shakespeare existed. SRI AUROBINDO: That idea has been given up—then they said there were two Shakespeares—both at Stratford. PURANI: Bacon also was bolstered up as the real Shakespeare. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Some critic made Bacon out to be both an Elizabethan and a post-Elizabethan poet. But take the actual poetry he has written: one can see how prosaic it is! EVENING SRI ...
... uttered and it will breathe life into dry bones. Let the inspiring life be lived and it will produce workers by thousands. England draws her inspiration from the names of Shakespeare and Milton, Mill and Bacon, Nelson and Wellington. They did not visit the sickroom, they did not do philanthropic work in the parishes, they did not work spinning jennies in Manchester, they did not produce cutlery in Sheffield ...
... account of such mystical states, called them states of "cosmic consciousness", of which he gave fifty instances evidenced by personalities in different epochs, from the Buddha and Christ to Francis Bacon and Walt Whitman. 6 Since Bucke's classic publication, diverse types of mystical states have been more or less loosely described as states of cosmic consciousness. Sri Aurobindo uses the term "cosmic ...
... come. If he could have prophesied the bitter controversy that has raged in later times as to whether he himself penned those 36 plays bearing his name or they were the work of either Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman or else Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, he would have been upset enough to tear his hair! I am sure he was never given to any such "dreaming on things to come". ...
... Fletcher, Webster, Marston, Massinger, Shirley, Heywood, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Campion - all these were born fairly before him. Abundant development had preceded him in prose also, starting with Bacon and Raleigh and culminating Page 101 in the Authorised Version (1611) which not only showed how much English had grown but also served as an unparalleled new-maker of it for centuries ...
... medieval Aristotelian tradition and started a new quantitative and experimental approach to a new science of matter is what makes him the forerunner of early modern scientists like Galileo, Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Nicolaus Copernicus and Isaac Newton 1 .This man was Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo's lifetime was a period of great cultural turmoil, marked by such notable events as the introduction ...
... Knowledge, however, was esteemed and desired not only for its sake but also for its utility, for its practical value: for knowledge was power. Nearly all great leaders of modem thought, from Francis Bacon onward, were interested in the practical applications of the results of scientific investigation and looked forward with an enthusiastic optimism to a coming era of wonderful achievement in the mechanic ...
... movements in the world. It is well known that Sufi ideas and even literary texts were borrowed by or lay behind teachings as diverse as those of St. John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Avila, Roger Bacon and Guru Nanak, as well as the Vedas. Many Sufis claim that their knowledge has existed/or thousands of years and has links with the Hermetic, Pythagorean and Platonic streams. This view reiterates ...
... Augustan Age, 205, 212 Augustine, St., 150 Augustus, 207 Australia, 106 Avatara(s), 49, 55, 69, 161, 205, 261, 277, 286, 390 BAAL,220 Babylon, 223 Bacon, 16 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, 114, 197 Bartho1omews, St., 52 Baudelaire, 48 Beethoven, 88 Behaviourism, 326 Benda, Julien, 119 - La Trahison ...
... eternal challenge to man's intelligence." 38 In fact, a spirit of heroic adventure animates the whole fabric of 34. Savitri, Bk. III, Canto I, p. 305. 35. Ibid., p. 227. 36.Bacon. 37.Théophile Got, le Dernier Th é or è me de Fermat. 38.Edouard Lucas. Page 95 a true mathematician. He never shuns problems, rather welcomes them with zest in order ...
... twenty-seven letters a variety of Latin sentences, the most plausible of which is: "Hi ludi orbituiti F. Baconis nati." The sentence translates: "These plays preserved for the world (are) born of F. Bacon." The Shakespearians are expected to be impressed into dumbfounded defeat." 40 21. Humour with initials and acronyms: Example 1: This is from the poet-critic K.D. Sethna lecturing to ...
... Arnold, Matthew, 71, 189,234 -Essays in Criticism, 234n Arya, the, 131,227-8 Asia, 284 Asuras, 159 Aswins, 45 Atri, 162 Auden,88 Aurelius, 70 BACCHUS, 182 Bacon, 108 Banerji, Sanat Kumar, 230n Banquo, 171 Barnardo, 173-5 Baudelaire, 66, 78, 94, 96, 214, 287 -us Fleurs du Mal, 95n -"Correspondances", 287n -"L'Aube spirituelle" ...
... Of course, he was not yet 'Sri' Aurobindo, just Arabindo Babu. This Cambridge-educated young man seemed to have gathered into himself all the qualities and more of his illustrious predecessors like Bacon, Darwin, Milton, Newton, Wordsworth, all Cambridge men. Arabindo Babu's keen wit was more than a match for the subtle and daring policy of Curzon, who was a statesman of unusual genius. It was ...
... essential note of the new Romanticism was not of the creative Life-force but of the creative Intelligence can easily be marked if, just as we put Shakespeare face to face with Milton or Chaucer or Bacon, we compare certain lines from the supreme Elizabethan to those of the most outstanding later poets. Harken to Shakespeare talking of passing away from the turmoil of human life - a verse already cited ...
... in the Renaissance and brought it to its full flush, and it was some time before the new intellectuality that had found its initial growth in Leonardo started to emerge. It was fostered by Francis Bacon, yet it may be said to have emerged in a recognisable form only with the advent of Galileo and to have reached a world stature, so to speak, not prior to Newton. Hand in hand with its development went ...
... operations of superior power or superior knowledge. And in that sense the occultism of the Page 16 present day is magic precisely in the same sense as the scientific experiments of Roger Bacon or Paracelsus. There is a good deal of fraud and error and self-deception mixed up with it, but so there was with the earliest efforts of the European scientists. The defects of Western practitioners ...
... 58 Anti-Trinitarianism, 101-02 Arianism, 101 , 102 Arius, 102 Art, Artist, 10, 140, 141 "aspire", 96, 98, 99, 100, 104, 105, 107, 111 , 129, 226-27, 162 Aurobindo, Sri, 4, 5 Bacon, 249 Basu, Arabinda, vii Bateson, F. W . , 5 , 1 3 , 54, 5 5 , 130, 13 1 , 157, 205, 246, 251 , 261 Beauty, 9, 10, 70, 1 40 Beelzebub, 118 Beulah, 207, 210 Blackstone, Bernard, 53 ...
... principle that mind orders all things was the only one worthy of the world around us and the heavens above us. 11 The natural tendency of thought in this matter is fairly reflected by the words of Bacon: "For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest upon them and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must ...
... go to the grocery store or if I have a mile trip I walk it or run it. I eat the right foods. .1 don't drink, I don't smoke. I don't eat greasy foods, and since I'm a Muslim I don't eat pork, ham or bacon. I believe my diet makes me faster — and even my worst critics will admit that I am the fastest heavyweight in the history of boxing. But I've been off four months since my second fight with Frazier ...
... endeavouring to transform. We know that that age was the Scientific age or the age of Reason. Its great prophets were Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists or if you mount further up in time, we may begin from Bacon and the humanists. Its motto was first, "The proper study of mankind is man" and secondly, Reason is the supreme organon of knowledge, the highest deity in man— la Deesse Raison. And it is precisely ...
... He came at a critical time, on the mounting tide of rationalism and scepticism, in an age when the tone and temper of human mentality were influenced and fashioned by Montaigne and Rochefoucauld, by Bacon and Hobbes. Pascal himself, born in such an atmosphere of doubt and disbelief and disillusionment, had sucked in a full dose of that poison; yet he survived and found the Rock of Ages, became the clarion ...
... The machine is driven by an electric force. Now, is the Force driving the machine or is there a man behind it? Whichever it is, if a pig is put into the machine to be cut up, the machine will put out bacon or sausages. It won't put out anything else. You can't make the machine move like a train. It has its own characteristics according to which it will work. If such be the case with a machine, how much ...
... endeavouring to transform. We know that that age was the Scientific age or the age of Reason. Its great prophets were Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists or if you mount further up in time, we may begin from Bacon and the humanists. Its motto was first, "The proper study of mankind is man" and secondly, Reason is the supreme organon of knowledge, the highest deity in man - la Déesse Raison. And it is ...
... brother worked with Henry Cotton's brother in the Liberal association (Kensington) and used to get 50 shillings a week. On that and a little more we two managed to live. We had bread and a piece of bacon in the morning; at night some kind of pastry. For the winter we had not overcoat. After one year like that to talk of extravagance was absurd. But Mono Mohan could not stand it; he went out and lived ...
... harsh discords and gnawing cares of the ordinary human life ! What a poignant and illuminating contrast the life of a Buddha or a Christ or a Ramakrishna presents to the life of a Napoleon or a Bacon, a Voltaire or a Schopenhauer ? An untroubled peace and tranquillity, a calm and comprehensive vision of the Truth and its manifold working, and a steady, silent, impersonal will fulfilling itself ...
... his optional subject, know of that literature? He has read a novel of Jane Austen or the Vicar of Wakefield, a poem of Tennyson or a book of Milton, at most two plays of Shakespeare, a work of Bacon's or Burke's full of ideas which he is totally incompetent to digest and one or two stray books of Pope, Dryden, Spenser or other, & to crown this pretentious little heap a mass of second-hand criticism ...
... day I noticed that my shoes looked rather shabby. So I drove myself to visit the market for a new pair. I never thought the Gods could have anything to do with such a locality, though I had read of Bacon's idolafori , "idols of the market-place". I bought the shoes I had wanted and the shopman wrapped the box up in a newspaper sheet. When, at home, I unwrapped it, the part of the sheet that fell over ...
... more gifted in one direction, another in others, but these other powers were aids to their poetic expression rather than its essence or its source. There is often more thought in a short essay of Bacon's than in a whole play of Shakespeare's, but not even a hundred cryptograms can make him the author of the dramas; for, as he showed when he tried to write poetry, the very nature of his thought-power ...
... but there was never any dearth of good feeling and friendship. It was again during this period itself that we got permission to read books, and a few volumes reached our hands. My people sent me Bacon's Essays, Shakespeare's King John – I still remember these titles – and several other titles of the type used in my college as textbooks. Some works of Vivekananda came and also the Brahmavaivarta ...
... noticed that my shoes looked rather shabby. So I drove myself to visit the market for a new pair. I never thought the Gods could have anything to do with such a locality, though I had read of Bacon's idola fori, "idols of the market-place". I bought the shoes I had wanted and the shop-man wrapped the box up in a newspaper sheet. When, at home, I unwrapped it, the part of the sheet ...
... that was nothing but “astounding miracles,” “jugglery” and “imposture,” without having the patience to witness it at least once. Which is neither in accordance with the scientific method, nor with Bacon’s inductive method, nor with the hypothetico-deductive method. In this, as in so many other matters, Darwin set the tone for his future disciples, who quote him not only as a naturalist but as a ...
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