The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon details the ideas and vision of
the scientific utopia conceived by the author, and is offered here
in hardcover. This story sets out a process of discovery whereby
sailors, lost off the Peruvian coastline, stumble across Bensalem.
While the opening passages hold only the bare bones of plot, the
emphasis once the explorers arrive in Bensalem is its university:
Salomon's House. Promoted tenets include kindness, compassion and
honesty, aesthetic beauty in public buildings and civic life, an
intellectual spirit fostered among the population, a university
named Salomon's House where sciences are studied and developed, and
a strong sense of religious piety held by the population. Today,
The New Atlantis is significant for statements of the ideals of the
nascent Enlightenment era, in which Francis Bacon was an
influential thinker. The text is also interpretative, with
Bensalem's conversion to Christianity and the nature of its
hierarchy poignant elements in the fiction.
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