He has enlarged and translated the _Advancement_ into the _De Augmentis_.

"Because he could not altogether desert the civil person that he had borne," he had begun a work on Laws, intermediate between philosophical jurisprudence and technical law.

He had hoped to compile a digest of English law, but found it more than he could do alone, and had laid it aside.

The _Instauratio_ had contemplated the good of men "in the dowries of nature;" the _Laws_, their good "in society and the dowries of government." As he owed duty to his country, and could no longer do it service, he meant to do it honour by his history of Henry VII.

His _Essays_ were but "recreations;" and remembering that all his writings had hitherto "gone all into the City and none into the Temple," he wished to make "some poor oblation," and therefore had chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations, the dialogue of "an Holy War" against the Ottoman, which he never finished, but which he intended to dedicate to Andrewes, "in respect of our ancient and private acquaintance, and because amongst the men of our times I hold you in special reverence." The question naturally presents itself, in regard to a friend of Bishop Andrewes, What was Bacon as regards religion?
And the answer, it seems to me, can admit of no doubt.