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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, statesman, essayist > Francis Bacon
For it is...
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest . . .
Source: The Advancement of Learning, bk. 2, ch. 21, sct. 9 (1605). Bacon was referring to Jesus's words to the Apostles in Matthew 10:16: Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye ther
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan 22 1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, essayist; He was an early advocate of inductive learning from intensive observation; wrote Novum Organum, 1620.