The New Atlantis Quotes

“We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.”
― Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis

“But when men have at hand a remedy more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is almost expulsed. And therefore there are with you seen infinite men that marry not, but chose rather a libertine and impure single life, than to be yoked in marriage; and many that do marry, marry late, when the prime and strength of their years is past. And when they do marry, what is marriage to them but a very bargain; wherein is sought alliance, or portion, or reputation, with some desire (almost indifferent) of issue; and not the faithful nuptial union of man and wife, that was first instituted.”
― Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis

“Hacia el Este, la navegación por las aguas de Egipto y Palestina era, igualmente, intensa. También China y la Gran Atlántida (que ustedes llaman América), que ahora sólo cuentan con juncos y canoas, abundaba en grandes embarcaciones. Esta”
― Francis Bacon, La nueva Atlántida