Francis Bacon,
The Great Instauration


Basil Montague, ed. and trans.
Excerpts from The Works, 3 vols. (Philadelphia: Parry & MacMillan, 1854)

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Scanned by Alison Waugh and proofread by Monica Banas in 1996.
Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001.

Table
of Contents


Editor's Preface

Epistle Dedicatory to James I

Bacon's Preface

The Distribution of the Work

Preface to the Novum Organum

Aphorisms



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