...more formidable than the lance of Astolfo, remedies more efficacious than the balsam of Pierabras. Yet in his magnificent day-dreams there was nothing...many prejudices, introduced so many new opinions. But what we most admire is the vast capacity of that intellect which, without effort, takes in at once...

...wild—nothing but what sober reason sanctioned. Bacon's greatest performance is the first book of the Ntnum Organum. . . . Every part of it blazes with wit, but...many prejudices, introduced so many new opinions. But what we most admire is the vast capacity of that intellect which, without effort, takes in at once...

...in a visionary world — amid things as strange as any that are described in the Arabian TaIes . . . amid buildings more sumptuous than the palace of Aladdin,...many prejudices, introduced so many new opinions. But what we most admire is the vast capacity of that intellect which, without effort, takes in at once...

...balsam of Fierabras. Yet in his magnificent day-dreams there was nothing wild - nothing but what sober Bacon's greatest performance is the first book of...a revolution in the mode of thinking, overthrew so may prejudices, introduced so many new opinions. But what we most admire is the vast capacity of that...

...Organuni and, like others before him and since, was deeply impressed by it, so deeply as to say that ''no book ever made so great a revolution in the mode...many prejudices — introduced so many new opinions." His attention had no doubt been caught by Bacon's famous exposition of "idols" (idola in Bacon's Latin,...