Francis Bacon on the Goal of Life

(Of the Good and its Vicissitudes)

This is the fifth installment in “Essaying Bacon”, a two-year project of examining each of Francis Bacon’s classic Essays, one by one, and accordingly, piecing together a more complete picture.

Even by Bacon’s standards, to read “Of Goodness & Goodness of Nature” in one sitting is to have one’s mind and imagination…