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strength of wits, but places all wits and understandings nearly
on a level.” Print had inspired Bacon not only with the idea of
applied knowledge by means of the homogeneity of segmental
procedure, but it gave him the assurance that men would be
levelled in their capacities and performance as well. Some
strange speculations have resulted from this doctrine, but few
would care to dispute the power of print to level and to extend
the learning process as much as cannon or ordnance did level
castles and feudal privilege. Bacon, then, argues that the text
of Nature can be restored by great encyclopedic fact-finding
sweeps. Man’s wits can be reconstructed so that they can once
again mirror the perfected Book of Nature. His mind is now an
enchanted glass, but the hex can be removed.
It is quite clear, then, that Bacon would have no respect
for scholasticism any more than for the dialectics of Plato and
Aristotle “because it is the duty of Art to perfect and exalt