...understanding was lost and human language was confounded. Bacon repeats this point here. Because of the Fall, "the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidents; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture" (118). Because...

...access to nature as surely as the angel with the fiery sword barred re-entry into the Garden of Eden: For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.24 For Bacon the proper approach to knowledge of nature begins, after humble acknowledgement...

...understanding was lost and human language was confounded. Bacon repeats this point here. Because of the Fall, "the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture" (WFB, 3:394-95). 29 Because of his fallen state, man must be reeducated, and Bacon describes various...

...the self that Bacon's theological desires championed three hundred fifty years earlier. Bacon says, "The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...should reflect according to their true incidence." He warns that the unenlightened, un-Christian mind is akin to "an enchanted glass, full of superstition...

...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature...

...; (5) Biography ; (c) The deductive syllogism. 9. Explain with reference to the context :— (a) " The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." (6) The ancient opinion that man was miarocosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically...