...Science may also, perhaps, he assigned as a reason for this evident revolution in Parliamentary taste. "Truth," says Lord Bacon, " is a naked and open daylight,...mummeries, and triumphs of the present world half so stalely and daintily as candle-lights ;" — and there can be little doubt that the clearer any important...

...absolute values is often painful, sometimes unendurable. "But I cannot tell", says Bacon; "this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights." No man can see God and live. If we are going to...