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the true dignity and value of Learning.
The next passage gives Bacon’s ever-recurrent theme
that all of the arts are forms of applied knowledge for the sake
of diminishing the effects of the Fall:
Concerning speech and words, the consideration of
them hath produced the science of grammar: for man still
striveth to reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from
which by his fault he hath been deprived; and as he hath
striven against the first general curse by the invention of
all other arts, so hath he sought to come forth of the
second general curse, which was the confusion of
tongues, by the art of grammar; whereof the use in a
mother tongue is small, in a foreign tongue more; but
most in such foreign tongues as have ceased to be vulgar