Word: bacon
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Other elements, such as naturalism, can be found in Alexandria, but were of minor importance there. It is quite true that a few Hellenes conducted experiments, believed in empiricism, and were interested in efficient causes. But Stoicism replaced Epicurus; Plato and Aristotle succeeded the atomists. Bacon's empirical inheritance came not so much from the ancients as from the alchemists, who, more than any good Greek, committed the sin of hubris in seeking to impose the human will on the natural order...
...cure for contemporary troubles would therefore hardly appear to lie in an attempt to revivify the Bible or reanimate the Christian revelation. The Christian heritage proved incapable of answering Bacon and Diderot. And while these men failed to provide a lasting alternative, they defined the work of any future religion. No future synthesis can simply ignore the problems raised by empirical science or temporal Utopianism. It must incorporate these elements into a new vision, making its Revelation relevant to contemporary dilemmas...
ROBERT C. BACON Kentfield, Calif...
...Word Message. In his $300-a-month Fairfax Hotel suite, John McClellan awakens daily at 7, breakfasts on bacon and eggs, glances at the morning papers, and by 8 o'clock is on his way to the Senate Office Building in a taxi. (He has rarely driven since the time he started through a red light while his mind was preoccupied with work.) A mass of business is already waiting: more than 300 letters a day, many of them with valuable tips about the investigation; conferences with Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, who keeps McClellan thoroughly briefed on latest developments...
...this step in the Mother Goose progression, the bacon still seems a long way from home. To read the excitable pronouncements in the kept Cairo press, Egypt is unyielding about everything: gives the U.S. and U.N. no credit for getting Israeli troops out of Egypt (something the Egyptians could not do for themselves), and renews its intransigent attitude about Israeli rights in Gaza, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Suez Canal. The optimistic drew comfort from the fact that Nasser himself had not yet said all these things, and might not be so unreasonable as his noisy propagandists...