NOTICE OF FRANCIS BACON.

of the power of that country over other nations; but the amplification of the power and kingdom of mankind over the world.”²⁴ “A restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature.”²⁵ “The enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.”²⁶ From the enlargement of reason, he did not separate the growth of virtue; for he thought that “truth and goodness were