/lit/ - Literature

>Travel in the younger sort is part of Education; in the elder, a part of Experience. He that travels into a country before he has some entrance into the language goes to school and not to travel. The things to be seen are: the courts of princes, the courts of justice, the churches, the monuments, walls, and fortifications, harbors, antiquities, ruins, and libraries, colleges,shipping and navies, houses and gardens, armories and arsenals, exchanges, warehouses, exercises of horsemanship, fencing, and training of soldiers, comedies of the better sort, treasuries of jewels, robes, and rarities, as well as triumphs, masques, feasts, weddings, and capital executions.

>>20980100
Anything from this lil' nigga

What are the best critiques of Francis Bacon, especially his New Organon?

Bacon has always been for the lowest common denominator. Books oversalted with rationalist imagery, embellished in sections to give his thin visions the appearance of logic and reason; but those with good taste can tell what they are: flimsy slices of reality, hacked into being by a butcher of nature, by a master of sophistry if of nothing else. They sizzle and pop from the heat of his royal patronage, not from their own inner fire. They attract the overcultivated intelligentsia, who grab and fart as their big bellies rumble, as if crying out: 'Give us more Bacon!'
Do they not know that the thing for which they hanker can provide them with no real nourishment? Do they not know its all spice and no substance, slabs of fat with hardly an ounce of real meat?
Believe me. In a few decades, once the thick smoke enshrouding the man and his work has finally cleared, people will be embarassed to admit they ever indulged their disgusting, effete appetite for Bacon.

https://serifofnottingham.blogspot.com/2013/04/shakespeare-supreme-masterpiece-and.html

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>>13789060
>it was me, /lit/.
>the author of all your pain.

Can anyone recommend a version of Francis Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral? I see there's multiple recent editions but don't know which one to prioritize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)#Recent_editions

>>10821050
classic and inevitable quote in this respect:
>It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth philosophy bringeth men’s minds to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.