The last book…but the beginning of a New World…
Francis Bacon has rightly been called one of the founding
fathers of America…both the United States and Canada owe a debt of recognition
to this philosopher and Renaissance Man.
His finances and his pen set the stage in motion…and the creation that
came forth has evolved into what we in America know today. This is his last work, unpublished and
unfinished within his lifetime…Sir Bacon passed in 1626, New Atlantis was published in 1627.
One could say it is a utopian novel…but is it? I guess the book is what is, and that resides
in the eye of the reader. One thing is
certain, Bacon and his books, which include New
Atlantis were very influential in their time…from founding colonies to
founding the Royal Society…it even gets a nod from Swift in Gulliver’s Travels.
I was able to find a later version from 1660…which I present
to you here:
Gutenberg also presents a digital version, which reads a little
differently, and you can peruse that here:
