Bacon...again

Pesic did a beautiful job of relating Einstein back to Bacon and especially Bacon's mythological and erotic imagery we have all come to know and love. I wanted to point to another moment I felt was Baconian in Pesic's interpretation of Einstein's engagement with the natural world and the implications of his thought, "there is an interesting resemblance to the rhetoric and imagery of the Biblical religion. The "religious paradise of youth" is lost, but a new paradise takes its place, even though "the road to this [new] paradise was not a s comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise" (140). This made me think of the ending to the New Organon and Bacon's idea that science is the answer to the fall and to regaining paradise, "for man by the fall fell at the same from his state of innocence and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part, repaired" (189). It seems that our men of science have felt compelled to seek out the mysteries of the labyrinth and in so doing believe they are doing service to reinstating man in his rightful dignity and dominion.