78/116 110.) Diderot says: "I think I have taught my fellow-citizens to esteem and read Bacon; people have turned over the pages of this profound author more since the last five or six years than has ever been the case before" (xiv. 494). In Professor Fowler's careful and elaborate edition of the Novum Organum (_Introduct._, p. 104), he disputes the statement of Montuola and others, that the celebrity of Bacon dates from the Encyclopaedia. |