CHAPTER VIIL

Bacon and Antiquity — ^The Anticipations of Modem Science in the New Atlantis — Bacon credited the Past with Wonders — His profound Studies of Antiquity — His Declaration of "going the same road as the Ancients " — Ben Jonson's Lines on Bacon and Shakespeare — Myste- rious Method of Publishing by Bacon — Public and Reserved — ^Two Favourite Sayings of Bacon's — Idols of the Theatre . . . 166