Bacon's Essays (Classic Reprint): Edited With Introduction and Notes: Edited with Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Selby, F. G.

 
9781330508510: Bacon's Essays (Classic Reprint): Edited With Introduction and Notes: Edited with Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

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Of cunning, Of suitors, Of wisdom for a man's self, of bxviii introduction.

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Of cunning, Of suitors, Of wisdom for a man's self, of bxviii introduction.

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There are certain periods in the world's history which have a special attraction for those who are watching with interest the intellectual and moral development of India. Such a period is the age of Socrates and the Sophists in Greece. Then, as now in India, the belief in an old mythology was being shattered; tradition, authority, and custom, were no longer accepted as adequate sanctions for moral rules and political institutions. In a word, a spirit of rational inquiry and criticism was supervening upon an age of childlike faith. Such a period again is the age of the Reformation and the Revival of Learning. Here, too, we have a revolt of reason against authority. The dangers of such a movement were greater in Greece than in modern Europe. There was no political stability in any Grecian city, and therefore no natural resistance to revolutionary doctrines. There was no organized or powerful system of scientific or moral beliefs to check the free play of crude and wanton speculation. In this respect there is a close analogy between Greece and India. Both countries suffered in the same ways and from the same causes.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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