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tongues, and are turned only to learned tongues. (p. 138)
It is the Fall of Man which engenders the arts of applied
knowledge for the relief of man’s fallen estate:
So in the age before the flood, the holy records
within those few memorials which are there entered and
registered have vouchsafed to mention and honor the
name of the inventors and authors of music and works in
metal. In the age after the flood, the first great judgment
of God upon the ambition of man was the confusion of
tongues; whereby the open trade and intercourse of
learning and knowledge was chiefly imbarred. (p. 38)
Bacon has the utmost regard for the kind of work done by
unfallen man (p.37):