NOVUM ORGANUM

by: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

      n Bacon see the culminating prime
      Of Anglo-Saxon intellect and crime.
      He dies and Nature, settling his affairs,
      Parts his endowments among us, his heirs:
      To every one a pinch of brain for seed,
      And, to develop it, a pinch of greed.
      Each thrifty heir, to make the gift suffice,
      Buries the talent to manure the vice.

"Novum Organum" is reprinted from Shapes of Clay. Ambrose Bierce. San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903.

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