...satisfaction of our minds. We make "unlawful matches" between things and ideas because the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. . . . Hence it cometh, that the mathematicians cannot satisfy themselves, except they...

...Francis Bacon offered a similar view in the Advancement of Learning in 1605, saying that "the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture." Bacon's hope was that this enchanted glass could be "delivered and reduced" (II.xiv.9: ed. Johnston...

...profoundly well. The mirror of the mind is hardly "a clear and equal glass" reflecting reality accurately: "nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." The rigor of Bacon's self-dis•49 ciplinary program was designed precisely to "deliver"...

...conclusion about the effects of the idols on how we know what we know about the world: "For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." In the end, thought Bacon, science offers the best hope to deliver the mind from such...

...stark quality reminiscent of the Morality play. 1 Op. tit., p. 84. 4 'OTHELLO' 'For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if itbenotdelivered and reduced.' (Bacon, Advancement of Learning II, xiv, 9) COLERIDGE REGARDED Othello...

...human language was confounded. Bacon repeats this point here. Because of the Fall, "the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidents; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture" (118). Because...

...surely as the angel with the fiery sword barred re-entry into the Garden of Eden: For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.24 For Bacon the proper approach to knowledge of nature begins, after humble acknowledgement...

...human language was confounded. Bacon repeats this point here. Because of the Fall, "the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture" (WFB, 3:394-95). 29 Because of his fallen state, man must be reeducated, and Bacon describes various...

...Bacon's theological desires championed three hundred fifty years earlier. Bacon says, "The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass...should reflect according to their true incidence." He warns that the unenlightened, un-Christian mind is akin to "an enchanted glass, full of superstition...

...; (c) The deductive syllogism. 9. Explain with reference to the context :— (a) " The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." (6) The ancient opinion that man was miarocosmus, an abstract or model of the world,...