THE Fortune of Francis Bacon determined that he should be born on the twenty-second of January 1560/1, at York House in the Strand.
His Fortune prepared in him an energy which has protracted itself through three centuries, saluted and studied by such.
It laid him in a cradle among the rulers of kingdoms; the names of empires were to be his daily business, but it interfused with them another and invisible empire which was to belong to his holidays and his nights, the empire of man over nature.
THE Fortune of Francis Bacon determined that he should be born on the twenty-second of January 1560/1, at York House in the Strand