The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient 'ordine retrogrado', by a computation backward from ourselves.


Book I, v, 8. - The Advancement of Learning (1605)

Francis Bacon Quotes

The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient...

The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient...

The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient...

The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient...