This then being imagin'd, that there may some lucky tide of civility
flow into those lands which are yet salvage, then will a double
improvement thence arise both in respect of ourselves and them. For
even the present skilful parts of mankind will be thereby made more
skilful, and the other will not only increase those arts which we
shall bestow upon them, but will also venture on new searches
themselves.

He expects much from the new converts, on the ground that nations
which have been taught have proved more capable than their teachers,
appealing to the case of the Greeks who outdid their eastern
masters, and to that of the peoples of modern Europe who received
their light from the Romans but have "well nigh doubled the ancient
stock of trades delivered to their keeping."

5.

The establishment of the Royal Society in 1660 and the Academy of
Sciences in 1666 made physical science fashionable in London and
Paris. Macaulay, in his characteristic way, describes how "dreams of
perfect forms of government made way for dreams of wings with which
men were to fly from the Tower to the Abbey, and of double-keeled
ships which were never to founder in the fiercest storm. All classes
were hurried along by the prevailing sentiment. Cavalier and
Roundhead, Churchman and Puritan were for once allied. Divines,
jurists, statesmen, nobles, princes, swelled the triumph of the
Baconian philosophy." The seeds sown by Bacon had at last begun to
ripen, and full credit was given to him by those who founded and
acclaimed the Royal Society. The ode which Cowley addressed to that
institution might have been entitled an ode in honour of Bacon, or