Editors’sNote
The Mind Creative FEB 2014
Dear Friends,
I started reading the
works of Sir Francis
Bacon during the
mid-seventies
having
being
directed
to
the
works
of
this
erstwhile genius by
another by the name
of Kamalaksh Chatterjee; a
person of such diverse skills
that there are hardly enough
words to describe the man. He
was an inventor, musician,
writer, poet, painter, actor; with
prodigious
amounts
of
knowledge, that he would
happily impart to anyone who
was ready to listen. Alas, there
were not many who did. He
lived incognito and alone, on
black coffee and vile cigarettes.
And he died a lonely death on
the floors of a public hospital in
India; his feeble life engulfed
by cancer. I owe a lot to him.
was a philosopher, statesman,
scientist, jurist, orator, essayist,
and author; he served both
as Attorney General and Lord
Chancellor of England. Even to
this day, he remains extremely
influential through his works,
especially as a philosophical
advocate and a practitioner of
the scientific method during the
scientific revolution. He has been
credited as being the creator
of empiricism which states
that knowledge comes only or
primarily
from
sensory
experience.
I have included a short essay by
Francis Bacon in this issue. His
essays have always been
thought provoking sources for
me. I have always derived a lot
of pleasure reading them and I
am sure that you will too.
And this brings us to the topic of
the unknown writers of this
world. With the advent of the
internet, getting access to good
Francis Bacon (22nd January
1561 – 9th April 1626) was an
extraordinary Englishman. He
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