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Generally, he wrote of himself in one fragment,
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[96]--a summary of the whole early history of the resistance to science. [97] In the works which he wrote at the height of his powers, especially in his masterpiece, the Novum Organum (1620), where he comes closest to the problems of exact inquiry, he specifies again and again both popular superstition and orthodox theology as hindrances to scientific research, commenting on
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[98] and declaring that of the drawbacks science had to contend with
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[99] In the same passage he exclaims at the
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of those of the moderns who have attempted to
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; [100] and yet again, coupling as obstinate adversaries of Natural Philosophy
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he roundly affirms that
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[101] These charges are repeatedly salved by such claims as that
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puts no obstacles in the way of science; [102] that the book of Job runs much to natural philosophy; [103] and, in particular, in the last book of the De Augmentis Scientiarum, redacted after his disgrace, by the declaration--more emphatic than those of the earlier Advancement of Learning--that
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Sacred Theology ought to be derived from the word and oracles of God, and not from the light of nature or the dictates of reason. [104] In this mood he goes so far as to declare, with the thorough-going obscurantists, that
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The Christian Paradoxes,