Francis Bacon — EEBO-TCP A28291, keyed from the 1658 edition.
Bacon’s unfinished fable of Bensalem, an island in the South Sea converted to Christianity by a miracle twenty years after the Ascension and governed by Salomon’s House, a college of natural philosophers who open their work with prayer and count their discoveries as praise. It is the scientific society Bacon wanted, set inside the Christian commonwealth he assumed it would serve. William Rawley’s note to the reader is kept, as the book was always printed with it.
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