Sunday, February 23, 2014

"The Riches of Salomon's House" in The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon depicts a Utopian land with a wonderful combination of thought when he cleverly connects the creator and science in his work - The New Atlantis. In the text, we can see his vision of a new better world for European christian and true scientists who lived in the transition of Renaissance and Modern age.
In that transitional stage, christian religion was corrupted; natural philosophy was dominated with competing school of thought. European can be considered to be living in dysutopian world during that period.
As we know, people usually have contradiction between God's lessons - bible- and science. However, Bacon can prove that believing in God and in science is actually one. He shows us that God allows people to explore all the things that he created. As a result, Bacon makes "the house of salomon", where all types of sciences can be explored and conveyed to all people, be the heart of the Utopian island.

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http://www.sun-nation.org/sun-quest-ages-bacon.html

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