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Excerpt from The Beginnings of Things: Or, Science Versus Theology; Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August 19, 1874 Lange speaks of Bacon's high appreciation of De mocritus - for ample illustrations of which I am indebted to my excellent friend Mr. Spedding, the learned editor and biographer of Bacon. It is evi dent, indeed, that Bacon considered Democritus to be a man of weightier metal than either Plato or Aristotle, though their philosophy was noised and celebrated in the schools, amid the din and pomp of professors. It was not they, but Genseric and Attila and the barbarians, who destroyed the atomic philosophy. For at a time when all hu man learning had suffered shipwreck, these planks of Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy, as being of a lighter and more in ated substance, were preserv ed. And come down to us, While things more solid sank and almost passed into oblivion. 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
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