| saint, the monk, the university
| professor, the courtier, the perfect
| prince, the magus. The values and the
| ends theorized for the composite
| groups of intellectuals and artisans
| who contributed in the early
| seventeenth century to the
| development of science were different
| from the goals of individual sanctity
| or literary immortality and from the
| aims of an exceptional and "demonic"
| personality.
|
| A chaste patience, a natural modesty,
| grave and composed manners, a smiling
| pity are the characteristics of the
| man of science in Bacon's portrait of
| him. In the REDARGUTIO PHILOSOPHIARUM
| Bacon wrote:
|
| Then he told me that in Paris a
| friend had taken him along and
| introduced him to a gathering, 'the
| sight of which', he said, 'would
| rejoice your eyes. lt was the
| happiest experience of my life'.
| There were some fifty men there, all
| of mature years, not a young man
| among them, all bearing the stamp of
| dignity and probity... At his entry