Francis Bacon and His Secret Society


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"It is certain that, although much is known about Francis Bacon in some parts or phases of his chequered life, yet there is a great deal more which is obscure, or very inadequately treated by his biographers." "For instance, what was he doing or where was he travelling during certain unchronicled years? Why do we hear so little in modern books of that beloved brother Anthony, who was his 'comfort, ' and his 'second self'? And where was Anthony when he died? Where was he buried? And why are no particulars of his eventful life, his last illness, death, or burial recorded in ordinary books?" Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher, playwright, poet, and conceiver of the scientific method for empirical inquiry. The staggering amount of publications in which he was involved and his demand for a worldwide reformation of learning, science, and religion have made him one of the most important minds of the Elizabethan era. As much as Bacon's public life influenced the world of science, there is an equal part of his life obscured by his secrecy. This book sets out to delve into these secrets in order to uncover the full extent of Bacon's work. His self-devised secret cipher, his apparent connections to the Rosicrucians and Freemasons, and the frequent gaps in his biography are thoroughly examined, making this a valuable addition to any Baconian collection.







Forty-two Years Among the Indians and Eskimo


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Looking at the map of North America, a little inland from the coast of Labrador, you will find Hudson's Bay, and in the south-west corner, at the mouth of the Moose River, Moose Fort. Here is the residence of the deputy governor and his subordinate officers; a number of people are anxiously looking out; they are expecting the one ship that comes to them in the course of the year. A small vessel lying a little way out to sea has raised the long-looked-for signal, and rejoicing is the order of the day." On June 6, 1851, Reverend John Horden (1828-1893) embarked on a journey across the Atlantic to take his post as First Bishop of Moosonee (in today's Ontario, Canada), which he was to hold for forty-two years. This book is largely comprised from the correspondence that the missionary took up with the author Beatrice Batty. Having "the pen of a ready writer," Horden vividly describes the country, the people, their ways and their language, which he eagerly learned and used in his sermons to the natives."




Geist und Körper, Seele und Leib (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Geist und Korper, Seele und Leib Aber nun habe ich nicht nur die verschiedenen Auffassungen uber das Verhaltnis von Geist und Korper, Seele und Leib darzu legen versucht, sondern auch zu der Streitfrage selbst ausdrucklich Stellung genommen, und so ist denn mein Buch zugleich auch eine Streitschrift. Die gegnerischen Auffassungen zu bekampfen und nach Kraften zu widerlegen, den eigenen Standpunkt aber moglichst sicher zu begrunden und so kraftig wie moglich zu verteidigen ist der andere nicht minder wichtige Zweck desselben, und auch in dieser Hinsicht glaube ich manchen neuen Gesichtspunkt geboten, manchen weiter und tiefer verfolgt, manches Argument verstarkt, manches neu hinzugefugt zu haben. Oh es mir gelungen ist, der von mir ver tretenen und verfochtenen Auffassung eine derartige Stutze zu geben, da ihr der Sieg gesichert ist, mag fuglich dahingestellt bleiben: ich bin mir sehr wohl bewut, da in einer so schwierigen und kom plizierten Frage irren leicht und da kein Mensch unfehlbar ist. Um so mehr aber mochte ich der bescheideneren Hofinnng Ausdruck geben, da mein Bemuhen, durch eine moglichst vielseitige und um fassende Behandlung der Streitfrage diese selbst und die mit ihr zu sammenhungenden Punkte in ein hellem und schihferes Licht zu setzen, ihre Erkenntnis und ihr Verstandnis zu vertiefen, nicht ver geblich gewesen und ich somit, wie immer auch schlielich die Ent scheidung unserer Sheitfrage ausfallen moge, die Sache selbst, uber welche die Wahrheit festzustellen wir alle gemeinsam bemuht sind, einigermaen gefordert haben mochte. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Essays on Religion, Science, and Society


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The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction examines four postmodern texts whose authors play with the material conventions of "the book": Joseph McElroy's Plus (1977), Carole Maso's AVA (1993), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE (1982), and Steve Tomasula's VAS (2003). By demonstrating how each of these works calls for an affirmative engagement with literature, Flore Chevaillier explores a centrally important issue in the criticism of contemporary fiction. Critics have claimed that experimental literature, in its disruption of conventional story-telling and language uses, resists literary and social customs. While this account is accurate, it stresses what experimental texts respond to more than what they offer. This book proposes a counter-view to this emphasis on the strictly privative character of innovative fictions by examining experimental works' positive ideas and affects, as well as readers' engagement in the formal pleasure of experimentations with image, print, sound, page, orthography, and syntax. Elaborating an erotics of recent innovative literature implies that we engage in the formal pleasure of its experimentations with signifying techniques and with the materiality of their medium. Such engagement provokes a fusion of the reader's senses and the textual material, which invites a redefinition of corporeality as a kind of textual practice.