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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001107
Author:Kevin Jackson

OFTEN CREDITED with being the father of modern scientific method, the essayist Bacon (1561-1626) was, in Blake's mind, one of the three great intellectual villains who had doomed the modern world to materialism: Bacon, Newton, Locke. In the prophetic poem "Milton", he speaks of his attempt to "cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albion's covering". Blake scrawled across the title page of Bacon's Essays "Good Advice for Satans Kingdom", and added: "This is Certain If what Bacon says Is True what Christ says Is False... I am astonish'd how such Contemptible Knavery & Folly as this Book contains ...

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