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in the commonwealth of Utopia that I rather wish than hope to see followed in our governments; though it must be confessed that he is both a very learned man, and has had a great practice in the world,

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Ir would be unjust to pass judgment on this fragment of Lord Bacon, as though it were a complete work. For, since the whole plan of the New Atlantis has not been preserved, we are unable to decide whether he designed this portion which we possess to form an important, or merely a subordinate part. In my own opinion, his lordship, had he lived to perfect his imaginary commonwealth, would have laid comparatively little stress on the college of the Atlanteans, though a thing by no means to be overlooked in the framing of a state. Rawley, as the reader will perceive, is of a different opinion. To him we appear to have in the present fragment that which Bacon himself regarded as the kernel of his commonwealth-that in behalf of which he invented the whole fiction. Could I adopt this view of the matter, it would seem to me a cause of little regret that he stopped short where he did. There is nothing very marvellous in the "College of the Six Days' Work," nothing in search of which a great man needed to have sent his imagination floundering through the Pacific. But if, as I imagine, respects on the same

it was Bacon's intention to have constructed a polity in all scale, as excellent in laws and manners as in studies, then the fragment of the New Atlantis assumes considerable importance, as a sort of platform, standing upon which we may in some measure command a prospect of the whole scheme of things as it existed in the conception of the philosopher. And, under this persuasion, I have thought the New Atlantis worth reprinting at the end of Sir Thomas More's philosophical romance. It must be regarded simply as a chapter or two of Lord Bacon's "Utopia"-as a wing, or an apartment of one of the King of Bohemia's Seven Castles-which may not even, in the way above suggested, enable us to form a true notion of the other apartments and castlesbut is still curious in itself, and worthy of the degree of attention likely to be bestowed on it. Under another point of view, every fragment of this legislative kind, proceeding from intellects such as Bacon's, will be thought to possess much interest, if compared with the imaginary states framed by Plato in his Republic and his Laws; or dimly shadowed forth by Aristotle in his Politics. It may, in this way, be seen whether and how much men have progressed in the science of politics-whether the moderns, when free to choose, form a loftier conception of national happiness than the nations of the old world; and whether, their theory once adopted, they pursue better or wiser means for the accomplishment of their ends.

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