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Bacon’s allusion to scientific discovery as a children’s
game brings us close to another of his basic notions, that as
man lost his Eden through pride he must regain it by humility:
So much concerning the several classes of Idols, and
their equipage: all of which must be renounced and put
away with a fixed and solemn determination, and the
understanding thoroughly freed and cleansed; the
entrance into the kingdom of man, founded on the
sciences, being not much other than the entrance into
the kingdom of heaven, where into none may enter except
as a little child. (62)
Earlier in the Essays (pp. 289­90), Bacon insisted in the
same way that “the course I propose for the discovery of
sciences is such as leaves but little to the acuteness and