...possible for a new system to emerge from the old [43: 353—377] . 7 THE SPLITTING OF THE ECOSYSTEM I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with...children to bind her to your service and make her your slaw. FRANCIS BACON: 77ic Masculine Birth of Tfme. Or the Great Instauration of the Dominion of Man...

...off of 'the darkness of antiquity' in favour of the detailed study of nature (Farrington 1964:69). 'I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with...bind her to your service and make her your slave' (Farrington 1964:62). In discussions of human domination over nature, the concept of environment comes...

...symbolic structures which employ gender as a major variable or value. When Francis Bacon announced, "I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with...children to bind her to your service and make her your slave,"1 he identified the pursuit of modern science with a form of sexual politics: the aggressive,...

...achieved was a casting off of 'the darkness of antiquity' in favour of the detailed study of nature: 'I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with...bind her to your service and make her your slave'. 9 Bacon is considered important not just because he couched his arguments in gendered terms but also...

...were themselves deeply embedded in an extended sexual metaphor which 273 pervades Bacon's writings: "I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with...children to bind her to your service and make her your slave."12 Evelyn Fox Keller in Reflections on Gender and Science gives us a brilliant analysis of Bacon's...

...text from his "Temporis Partus Masculus" has become a locus classicus for the Baconian position. I come in very truth leading to you Nature with all...children to bind her to your service and make her your slave.30 Just as Cartesian cognitive theory denies any methodological role to the human context, so...

...domination has been evident since Francis Bacon, citing Bacon's thought that science is "leading you to Nature with all her children to bind her to your service, and make her your slave" (1982, p. 598). Keller argues that these impulses, rather than being seen as objective, should be viewed...

...of Francis Bacon. For Bacon, knowledge and power are one, and the promise of science is expressed as 'leading to you Nature with all her children to bind her to your service and make her your slave,'10 by means that do not 'merely exert a gentle guidance over nature's course; they have the...

...required taming, shaping, and subduing by the scientific mind: "I am come in very truth leading you to nature with all her children to bind her to your service and make her your slave." 12 Social ecologist William Leiss agrees that Bacon's scientific project was centrally concerned with...

...mixture of religion and science, nor a few commonplace observations or notorious experiments . . . No; I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with...bind her to your service and make her your slave." Bacon hoped he would succeed in his only earthly wish, "to stretch the deplorably narrow limits of...