Vanguard News Network
VNN Media
VNN Digital Library
VNN Reader Mail
VNN Broadcasts

Old April 27th, 2014 #1
Karl Radl
The Epitome of Evil
 
Karl Radl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Unseen University of New York
Posts: 3,130
Default Sir Francis Bacon on the Jews

Sir Francis Bacon on the Jews


Sir Francis Bacon; the English founder of the modern scientific method vis-a-vis inductive reasoning, is one of the better known figures to the general public in the relation to the history of science. What Bacon is known for primarily is having written several books relating to science and more precisely the methods used to say with probability that we know what we can extrapolate from and test (i.e. generalizing then testing rather than seeking to deduce purely from existing information otherwise known as inductive reasoning).

What is less well known about Bacon is his comments on jews in his best known (and relatively short) work on political theory: 'New Atlantis'. In this Bacon recounts his ideal of a political system based largely upon his reading of the Greek and Roman classics as well as his convinced Protestant Christianity. In many ways Bacon's 'New Atlantis' is very similar to Sir Thomas More's more famous 'Utopia' (written only a few decades apart), but based upon a less idealistic understanding of human nature than More's proto-Communism.

In Bacon's model civilization (which he refers to as 'Bensalem') religious tolerance (as embodied in his Christianity) is the rule and in elucidating this point. Bacon proceeds to comment on the attitude of jews; which as a major English statesman he would have himself encountered and heard tell of, towards gentiles and Christianity.

To wit that:

'By that time six or seven days were spent, I was fallen into straight acquaintance wth a merchant of that city, whose name was Joabin. He was a Jew and circumcised; for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion.Which they may the better do, because they are of a far differing disposition from the Jews in other parts. For whereas they hate the name of Christ, and have a secret inbred rancor against the people amongst whom they live; these, contrariwise, give unto our Saviour many high attributes, and love the nation of Bensalem extremely. Surely this man of whom I speak would ever acknowledge that Christ was born of a Virgin and that He was more than a man; and he would tell how God made Him ruler of the seraphim, which guard His throne; and they call Him also the Milken Way, an the Elijah of the Messiah, and many other high names, which they though they be inferior to His divine majesty, yet they are far from the language of other Jews.'

In the above passage Bacon is talking about how Joabin and the jews of Bensalem are radically different from the jews that he knew/had encountered in the course of his duties, because they were genuine, honest and filled with tolerance and brotherly love for non-jews and both believers in Christianity and Jesus himself. Essentially Joabin and the jews of Bensalem are seventeenth century versions of Gandhi in they promote a kind of religious pantheism when they don't believe in Christianity and see the good in everything around them (and especially in Jesus).

This Bacon directly contrasts with the behaviour of the jews in the real world: who he styles as secretly and maliciously hating non-jews and specifically loathing Jesus. This for Bacon is most obvious in the fact the jews of Bensalem 'love the nation extremely' while the jews in the real world do not love the nations in which reside, but rather seek to betray them at any opportunity that will derive advantage for the jewish people in such a betrayal.

Thus we can see that Bacon held what can be described as a quasi-anti-Semitic attitude towards the jews given that he suggested they hated gentiles and sought to hurt and betray them at every conceivable opportunity where it would benefit the jewish people.

----------------------------------

This was originally published at the following address: http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot...n-on-jews.html
__________________
 
Old April 27th, 2014 #2
SUNOFSPARTA
MIA
 
SUNOFSPARTA's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Off the reservation
Posts: 2,639
Default

 
Reply

Share


Thread
Display Modes


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:59 AM.
Page generated in 0.05434 seconds.