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Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 2 of 3: Lord Chancellor of England; A New Edition: With a Life of the Author
There is scarcely a page of his works which does not contain an illustration of this union in all the parts of nature, and the Injury to the advancement of knowledge from a supposition of their separation. In the Advancement of Learning he says Wesee Cicero the orator complained of Socrates and his school, that he was the first that separated philosophy and rhetoric whereupon rhetoric became an empty and verbal art. 80 we may see that the opinion of Copernicus touching the rotation of the earth, which astronomy itself cannot correct, because It is not repugnant to any of the phenomena, yet natural philosophy may correct. 80 we see also that the science of medicine, if it be destituted and forsaken by natural philosophy, it is not much better than an empirical practice.
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