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Quotation from The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
“it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced”
The Advancement of Learning, Book II, XIV.9 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500)
The mind of man compared to a distorting mirror, the germ of the doctrine of the Idols developed in the Novum Organum.
Citation: "it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced" — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II, XIV.9 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500). (id bacon-advancement-of-learning-q8)
