FRANCIS BACON AND HIS SECRET SOCIETY
BY
Mrs. Henry (Constance) Pott
Young Schollars of the
Universities,
Sons of the Morning,
I dedicate this book,
Confident that they will not disappoint the prophetic hope
of
FRANCIS BACON
That in the New Birth of
Time, his "Filii Scientarum"
would accomplish his work, and hand
down the Lamp to the Next Ages.
GO LITEL BOOKE, GODDE SEND THE GOOD PASSAGE
AND SPECIALIE LETTE THIS BE THY PRAIER,
UNTO THEM ALL THAT THEE WIL REDE OR HEARE :
WHERE THOU ART WRONG, AFTER THEIR HELP TO CALLE
THEE TO CORECTE IN ANIE PARTE ATTE ALLE CHAUCER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER TWO SOME DOUBTS CONNECTED WITH HIS
PERSONAL HISTORY AND ACTUAL WORKS AND AIMS 25 CHAPTER III A MYSTERY SURROUNDS HIS PRIVATE
LIFE AND CHARACTER 40 CHAPTER IV AN OUTLINE OF HIS LIFE AND
AIMS 88 CHAPTER V PLAYWRIGHT AND
POET-PHILOSOPHER 117 CHAPTER VI DEFICIENCIES OF LEARNING IN THE
TIMES OF ELIZABETH AND JAMES I 158 CHAPTER VII 197 CHAPTER VIII VITAL SPIRITS OF NATURE 230 CHAPTER IX MASONRY 256 CHAPTER X PAPER-MARKS USED UNTIL THE TIME OF
SIR NICHOLAS BACON 298 CHAPTER XI PAPER-MARKS IN AND AFTER THE TIME
OF FRANCIS BACON 335 PLATES 375 LIST OF PAPER MARKS 403
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