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Date: 1620
"Lastly, knowing how much the sight of man's mind is distracted by experience and history, and how hard it is at the first (especially for minds either tender or preoccupied) to become familiar with nature, I not unfrequently subjoin observations of my own, being as the first offers, inclinations...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)