Excerpt from Francis Bacon: Lord Verulam; A Critical Review His Life and Character; Selections From His Writings; Adapted for Colleges and High Schools Three of the most interesting, and, in some respects, most influential writers of earlier English prose, were Johnson, Addison and Bacon. The last is having his revival in America through his Essays, which are being adopted as a text-book in English literature in many of our Colleges and High Schools. A comparatively recent life of Bacon attracted the writer's attention in one of these nurseries of American citizenship, and he was impressed with the hero-worship prominent in every paragraph, - how admiration of the philosopher's intellect made the biographer blind to the man's frailty, how every comment seemed to be a compromise with, or apology for, just such individual and official corruption as is now awakening the American mind to a just appreciation of public and private honesty and integrity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.