Advancement of Learning, The, by Francis Bacon (1605), the original title being ‘Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human.’ This book, received with great favor by the court and by scholars, was afterwards enlarged and published in Latin with the title ‘De Augmentis Scientiarum,’ as the first part of a monumental labor, ‘The Instauration of the Sciences,’ of which the second part was the still famous ‘Novum Organum,’ on which Bacon’s fame as a philosopher rests. The ‘Advancement of Learning’ considers first the excellence of knowledge and the best way of spreading it, what has been already done to scatter it, and what left undone. The author then proceeds to divide all knowledge into three kingdoms or inclosures,—history, poetry, and philosophy; which appeal directly to the three manifestations of human understanding, memory, imagination, and reason. The smaller third of the book relates to revealed religion.