"This dissertation is a close, exegetical analysis of a selection of essays from the 1625 CE English edition of Bacon's Essays . As this dissertation shows, Bacon's Essays is a primer: Bacon has designed the text to help us better understand human nature, religion, and politics and thereby prepare us for the age of progress. Throughout this analysis, a chiasmic reading of the text is applied in order to examine three primary themes: human nature, religion, and politics."--Excerpt from abstract.
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