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FRANCIS BACON left his name and memory to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages. Safely and, it may be hoped, confidently. Within a year or so, two biographies have been published-Mary Sturt's “Francis Bacon” and Charles Williams's “Bacon”-both inspired by a sane and impartial enthusiasm for their subject, warts and all. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, in his presidential address to the British Association at Leicester, invoked Bacon's vision of Solomon's House “an organisation of the best intellects bent on gathering knowledge for future practical services”. A great idea, the president admitted. The modern structure, Sir Frederick suggested, would have functions similar (mutatis mutandis) to Bacon's fancy. “A house devoid of politics, concerned rather with synthesising knowledge, with a sustained appraisement of the progress of knowledge, and continuous concern with its bearing upon social readjustments.”Not restricted to scientific authorities alone, it would be “an intellectual exchange, where thought would go ahead of immediate problems”.
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H., T. Solomon's House. Nature 132, 629–630 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132629a0
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