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From: John van Hezewyk
Date: 11/9/2003
Time: 8:59:57 PM
Remote Name: 199.44.215.199
Francis Bacon lived in a time of social and economic turmoil, and therefore naturally yearned for peace and stability. New Atlantis is a work of utopian literature, the product of unhappy times; when life is bad, people dream of a better existence, and utopian literature is the same principle en masse. Bacon sought salvation from the pain of the world--experimental science offered the promise of curing the ills of society and humanity as a whole. I disagree that his vision was limited to individual freedom from the physical; I would assert that he hoped for a true panacea for all humanity.