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Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 5: Lord Chancellor of England
Two centuries have passed away since Lord Bacon said, 'I have held up a light in the obscurity of philosophy which will be seen centuries after I am dead.'(a) - He died on the 9th of April, 1626. On the 9th of March, 1826, Mr. Peel, on moving for leave to bring in a bill for the amendment of the criminal law, said, 'If authority were required, I could cite some of the most illustrious names that have adorned the civil and judicial annals of this country, the names of lawyers and of statesmen, who have either expressed a decided opinion in favour of the attempt to simplify the law, or who have been actually engaged in the undertaking. To one of these, the first in point of antiquity as the first in weight and esteem, I will refer, and thus preclude the necessity of summoning other less important testimony.
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