Francis Bacon and his secret society - Grand Lodge of Colorado

AND HIS SECRET SOCIETY. 157
He was buried, as directed, near his mother, in the parish
church of St. Michael, near St. Albans. This picturesque and
lonely little church became a place of pilgrimage, and will, we
believe, become so once more. The obligations of the world
are, as his biographer says, of a kind not to be overlooked.
There is no department in literature or science or philanthropy,
no organization for the promulgation of religious knowledge,
which does not owe something to Francis Bacon.
To him the patriot, the statesman, the law reformer, the
scientific jurist, the historian, are also indebted, and, apart from
all debatable works, the collector of anecdote, the lover of
good wit, of humourous wisdom, and of noble writing, must all
find that he has laid them under obligations far greater than
they may be aware of. It is bard, indeed, to say who amongst
us is not the easier in circumstances, the brighter in intellect,
the purer in morals, the worthier in conduct, through the teachings
and the labours of Francis Bacon. The principles of his
philosophy are of universal application, and they will endure as
long as the world itself.
To this conclusion must those come who contemplate his life
and works from the standpoint which we have been occupying.
But not all will care to take the same view. Let us, therefore,
shift our position and take a more particular observation of
some circumstances connected with Bacon which seem to be
mysterious, or at least not thoroughly explained.