[Footnote: See Advancement, iii.II.

On the influence of the doctrine on historical writing in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century see Firth, Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (Proc.

of British Academy, vol.viii., 1919), p.
8.] 5.
Bacon illustrated his view of the social importance of science in his sketch of an ideal state, the New Atlantis.

He completed only a part of the work, and the fragment was published after his death.

[Footnote: In 1627.