Bacon Seeks The Golden Mean Between Popery & Profanity
Francis Bacon was no atheist; he sought to tread the via media of the reformed English church between the two extremes of Popish superstition on the one hand and profane superstition on the other. In his Meditationes Sacrae, in the section titled “Of Heresies,” Bacon writes: Ye err, not knowing [Read more…]