BACON ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND CHANCELLOR 95

CHAPTER VI.
BACON'S FALL 118

CHAPTER VII.
BACON'S LAST YEARS--1621-1626 149

CHAPTER VIII.
BACON'S PHILOSOPHY 168

CHAPTER IX.
BACON AS A WRITER 198




BACON.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE.


The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read.
It is the life of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble
gifts as ever was bestowed on a human intellect; the life of one with
whom the whole purpose of living and of every day's work was to do great
things to enlighten and elevate his race, to enrich it with new powers,
to lay up in store for all ages to come a source of blessings which