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INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

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A broadcast version of six
Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford by Christopher Hill
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
2: Francis Bacon
' My way of discovering the sciences goes far to level men's wits: and leaves but little to individual excellence, because it performs everything by the surest rules and demonstrations.' Mr. Hill traces Bacon's influence in politics and education through Pym, Comenius, Cromwell and others.

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