Comparing Bacon's Aphorisms And Age Of Reason

The most striking difference between the Francis Bacon’s Aphorisms, Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, the letter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the writing prior to the Glorious Revolution, is reason as evidence for their assertions. During the English Revolution, God figured prominently into the arguments of the Diggers, Levellers, and Revolutionary Women. They justified their claims for political and social equality on the notion that all are created equal in God’s image. Individuals of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment based their assertions in their own reasoning; they did not give credit to God for their discoveries. In Bacon’s Books of Aphorisms, he introduces a new method for investigating nature: induction. While