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Baconian Facts
Francis Bacon
The Great Code Napoleon is based on his digest of law. He prevented the depopulation of England. A Founder of new States, the Virginias and the Carolinas, thus making the New World English instead of Spanish. He acted as bell-ringer to all Sciences and taught experiment.
Baconian Masonry
When Francis Bacon returned to England he introduced Masonry in its present organised form of a "Free and Accepted Brotherhood." He compiled the Masonic Ritual, was Founder, Father and First Grand Master.
Bacon's Essays 1597
It has been well said that Bason’s Essays seem like scraps escaped from Shakespeare’s desk - Ruggles
Bacon’s Essays are the best-known and most popular of all his works. It is also one of those where the superiority of his genius appears to the greatest advantage; the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of the subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours; and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something unobserved before. This indeed is a characteristic of all Bacon’s writings, and only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts, and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties - Dugald Stewart
The Shakespeare Society Founded on Deception!
Always leave a story better than you found it, yet let it be preferred to lay the rule down by James Spedding:
When a thing is asserted as a fact, always ask who first reported it, and what means he had of knowing the truth, which is an admirable corrective of loose traditional stories.
Something smells irregular
- Essex’s execution dated: February 25, 1600
- Raleigh’s letter to Cecil dated and endorsed: 1601
- Anthony Bacon’s death registered in St Olave’s Church Register: May 17, 1601
- Essex’s letter to Anthony Bacon dated and endorsed: May 30, 1601
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