Download or read book The Wisdom of the Ancients written by Sir Francis Bacon and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1691 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.