...which discovery and invention might proceed apace. By such means, he believed, man could attain to ' the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' l He held that ' there is much ground for hoping that there are still laid up in the womb of Nature...

...the sciences, arts, manufactures, and inventions of all the world;" the end of their foundation being the " knowledge of causes and secret motions of things...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." What the " father of Salomon's House " enumerates as the preparations for, and instruments and achievements...

...Francis Bacon heard in Solomon's House, the university of New Atlantis: "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK JE WOODBRIDGE, Dean. June 30, 1914. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM REPORT OF...

...kingdom,' known as Salomon's House. The ambitions of its elders were limitless: 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.'33 That example and that mission aptly suited the self-image corporations manufactured in...

...Salomon's House, the scientific institution described in New Atlantis, is charged with investigating "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things;...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." New Atlantis was probably written in 1624, although it was published unfinished by William Rawley in...

...be produced.' In the 1620s he advocated the founding of a club of investigators whose goal would be 'the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things;...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. Some forty years later, Bacon's proposal led to the establishment of the Royal Society, whose members...

...the study of things divine and the enquiry into natural causes coincide: "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all thing possible". Yet the "Water of Paradise" still runs through the island for health and prolongation...

...Atlantis (1627) described as Solomon's House, an elect society of scientists established to discover "the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things...bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible."57 Today this is the landscape of information and high technology, the landscape of universities,...

...onward. As Bacon puts it in New Atlantis, his plan for a scientific college, 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. The idea of human empire was a major ideal and legitimizing concept in modern Europe, especially as...

...interest of man. "The end of our Foundation," one of these rulers explains to barbarians from Europe, "is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Already, in this South Pacific enchantment, the Salomonic wizards have invented microscopes, telescopes,...