Excerpt from Certaine Considerations Touching the Better Pacification, and Edification of the Church of England: Dedicated to His Most Excellent Majesty
For who feeth nor that many are affected and give Opinion in thefe matters, as if they had nocfo much a defire to purge the evil from the good, to countenance and protea the evil by the goodas Others fpeake as if their fc0pe were onely to fet forth what is good, and nor tofeeke forth What is poflibl'e, which is to will: and not to propound. Others proceed, as if they had rather aminde of remouing', then of reforming. But howfo ever either fide as men, though excellent men' {hall run into extremities, yet your Maiefty, as a molt wife, bquall,8t Chriftiau Moderator is difpofed to find out the golden Mediocrity, in_the ef'tabliihment of that which is found, and in the reparation of that.
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Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621.
There are some scholars who believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel The New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, in the Pacific Ocean west of Peru. He envisioned a land where there would be greater rights for women, the abolishing of slavery, elimination of debtors' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of religious and political expression. Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland.
Thomas Jefferson considered Francis Bacon to be one of the three greatest men who ever lived, "Bacon, Locke and Newton" were "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilized his writings in their own belief systems.
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