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This evening we're reading a classic of education,

The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon,

transcribed by David Price in 1893, published by Castle and Company Limited.

Let's begin.

Introduction The Two Books of Francis Bacon of the proficiency and advancement of learning divine and

humane to the King at London printed for Henry Tomes and are to be sold at his shop at Gray's Inn Gate in Holborn, 1605.

That was the original title page of the book now in the reader's hand, a living book that led the way to a new world of thought.

It was the book in which Bacon, early in the reign of James I, the way for a full setting forth of his new organon or instrument of knowledge.

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