No caption. A full-page illustration of roger bacon's library in flames: "what hath all my knowledge of natures secrets gained me? onely this, the losse of a better knowledge, the losse of divine studies, which makes the immortall part of man (his soule) blessed. I have found that my knowledge has beene a heavy burden, and has kept downe my good thoughts: but i will remove the cause, which are these bookes: which i doe purpose here before you all to burne. They all intreated him to spare the bookes, because in them there were those things that after-ages might receive great benefit by. He would not hearken unto them, but threw them all in the fire, and in that flame burnt the greatest learning in the world. " (p. 94). Date: 1904.
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