Word: novum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department shall be filled to overflowing within a year, and will assert its supremacy over the field of Economics. The grievances of the deceived amateur will need airing; it will be learned that instead of the Saturday Post for tutorial reading, he will be obliged to read Bacon's "Novum Organum" or write on the Restoration Drama. As an upperclassman he will arouse from his dilemma; and his convictions will attest that native ability is foreign as an aid in meeting the requirements of the "Generals". Sumner Moskovitz...
Bacon. The 300th anniversary was fittingly observed of the publication of the Novum Organum, the master work of Sir Francis Bacon (1561- 1626), who, while not a great investigator himself, laid the foundation of modern scientific research by his insight into the true spirit and method of science. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, of Smith College, Dr. Mark Liddell, of Purdue University, and other scientific historians paid tribute to Lord Bacon's vast influence over subsequent thought...
...what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history he might know that Bacon's Novum Organum was also picked to outlive the Bible...