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Elective English–II

Notes Self Assessment

Choose the Correct Option
1. The work, dedicated to James, was to be called .........
(a) Of Studies (b) Magna Instauratio
(c) Edward the Second (d) none of these.

2. In our own era, Bacon would be acclaimed as a
(a) Private Intellectual (b) Pseudo Intellectual
(c) Public Intellectual (d) none of these.
3. Bacon was named lecturer in legal studies at Gray’s Inn in
(a) 1588 (b) 1589

(c) 1567 (d) none of these.
4. Bacon was elected to Parliament in ......... as a member for Melcombe in Dorsetshire.
(a) 1955 (b) 1954
(c) 1960 (d) none of these.

11.5 Summary

• Revenge, according to Bacon, is a wild justice because it offends the law by putting it
out of effect and to violate the very purpose of it. Yet it also allows for an ability to
place fairness in a given situation by allowing a victim to be even with his enemy.
• Bacon states that if a man does ill will by nature than it is wrong to be spiteful for his
love for himself over others. As well, he also suggests that it is necessary to bare pain
and evil through his quote of Job. These therefore show moral arguments.

• Bacon’s historical and biblical allusions allow for an ability to compare situations with
those that were precedents for his philosophy. By doing this he is able to justify the
benevolence in his theories by establishing such experiences with good morals.
• Francis Bacon attempts to define Love’s effects on man and its impact through its
existence. Love is inevitable to man as he clearly states towards the beginning of his
essay. Bacon concludes that love can help make the world a better place or its misuse
may corrupt mankind.
• Bacon uses the quote to establish the fact that love may disrupt rationality. By relating
love with flattery, Bacon explains of love corrupting abilities. It is only through the
receiving persons love can be truly defined.
• Bacon does contradict himself by first saying that a mad degree love is felt by all of
man, and yet then tells of two men who are exceptions to this. He also uses the feelings
of others towards love as evidence to the support of his theory as shown through the
previous quote. The last sentence remains part of the evolutionary thought/revelation
that Bacon has dealing with love’s effects. Bacon does indeed discuss the three types
of love but explains them in a continuous thought by leading one into the other.
• The line “It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion,” can be separated to
start a new paragraph, and to make another paragraph starting with “As for the other
losses, “ These two points separate the ideas of an introduction to love’s existence, and
carries over to love’s possible misuse, and the losses incurred through this process.

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