" So if you know when Elizabeth began to
reign you will easily remember when Bacon was born.
*James Spedding.
Francis was the youngest of a big family, and when he was little
more than twelve years old he went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Even in those days, when people went to college early, this was
young.
For three years Bacon remained at college and then he went to
France with the English ambassador. While he was in France his
father died and Bacon returned home. At eighteen he thus found
himself a poor lad with his future to make and only his father's
great name and his own wits to help him. He made up his mind to
take Law as his profession. So he set himself quietly to study.
He worked hard, for from the very beginning he meant to get on,
he meant to be rich and powerful. So he bowed low before the
great, he wrote letters to them full of flattery, he begged and
promised.
Bacon is like a man with two faces. We look at one and we see a
kindly face full of pity and sorrow for all wrong and pain that
men must suffer, we see there a longing to help man, to be his
friend.
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