ABSTRACT
A PRIMARY OBJECTIVE of Baconian policy in the field of learning was to secure a closer alliance between the experimental and the rational faculties. Aristotle’s logic was dead-killed by scholasticism. Bacon’s philosophy was premised on change. Bacon called for a complete reappraisal of the strategy of science and scholarship. Nothing short of a revolutionary purge of traditional modes of thought would suffice for the conquest of nature. The philosopher-scientist would have to compel himself ‘to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to the examination of particulars’.1
