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A history of the world without a history of learning seems to lack its eye
Drawn from what Francis Bacon said
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- Francis Bacon English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626)
For no man hath propounded to himself the general state of learning to be described and represented from age to age, as many have done the works of Nature, and the state, civil and ecclesiastical; without which the history of the world seemeth to me to be as the statue of Polyphemus with his eye out, that part being wanting which doth most show the spirit and life of the person.
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↗The Advancement of Learning (1605)gutenberg.org
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