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from God and to depend wholly upon himself.
Bacon’s Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton’s a trade union
organizer.
* Before the Fall the purpose of work was just for experience or
“experiment,” “not for necessity,” “nor matter of labor for the
use.” Strangely, although Bacon is quite explicit and repetitive
in his derivation of the program of applied knowledge from the
Scriptures, his commentators have avoided this issue. Bacon
pushes Revelation into every part of his program stressing, not
only the parallelism between the book of Nature and of
Revelation, but also between the methods used in both.
Bacon’s Adam would seem to correspond to
Shakespeare’s poet, using his unblemished intuition to pierce all