e kings, feudalism, myths - faced a creeping erosion. “Human knowledge and human power come to the same thing,” the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon observed in the midst of this shift in his artillery shell of a book The New Organum. Human knowledge, he means, is human power. You can imagine the

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