But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.


The works of Francis Bacon (ed. 1803)

Francis Bacon Quotes

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than...

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than...

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than...

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than...