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Excerpt from Bacon Vs Shakspere: Brief for Plaintiff
Another illustrious example is Goethe, scarcely inferior to Bacon, whatever the claims made for the latter, in the brilliancy and scope of his powers. As a poet, Goethe was a star of the first magnitude, a blaze of light in the literary heavens. His ''faust'' is one Of the six great poems Of the world. As a writer of prose fiction he stands in the front rank, his Wilhelm Meister'' being a classic, side by side with ''the Heart of Mid Lothian,'' ''middlemarch,'' and ''the Scarlet Letter.'' By a singular coincidence, also, as compared with Bacon, he was one of the master spirits of his age in the sphere of the sciences. An evolutionist before Darwin, he beheld, as in a vision, the application of law to all the phenomena of nature and life. In botany, he made notable addi tions to the then existing stock of knowledge; and throughout the vast realm of biology he not only developed new methods of inquiry, but spread over it the glow of imagination, without which the path of discovery is always doubly difficult to tread.
In the light of precedents, therefore, the claim made to the authorship of the plays in behalf of Bacon cannot be discredited.
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Another illustrious example is Goethe, scarcely inferior to Bacon, whatever the claims made for the latter, in the brilliancy and scope of his powers. As a poet, Goethe was a star of the first magnitude, a blaze of light in the literary heavens. His ''faust'' is one Of the six great poems Of the world. As a writer of prose fiction he stands in the front rank, his Wilhelm Meister'' being a classic, side by side with ''the Heart of Mid Lothian,'' ''middlemarch,'' and ''the Scarlet Letter.'' By a singular coincidence, also, as compared with Bacon, he was one of the master spirits of his age in the sphere of the sciences. An evolutionist before Darwin, he beheld, as in a vision, the application of law to all the phenomena of nature and life. In botany, he made notable addi tions to the then existing stock of knowledge; and throughout the vast realm of biology he not only developed new methods of inquiry, but spread over it the glow of imagination, without which the path of discovery is always doubly difficult to tread.
In the light of precedents, therefore, the claim made to the authorship of the plays in behalf of Bacon cannot be discredited.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Edwin Reed
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