In England, Bacon, starting on the same errand, through his researches, was induced also to consider more and more that the regard of man for the authority of tradition is one of the greatest obstacles to the progress of science, and that servile veneration for Aristotle is, above all, to be condemned as paralysing the initiative of modern thinkers. Learning is not to be considered as the work of antiquity, as a work already done; it is instead an arduous task still to be accomplished and the first step on the way towards its accomplishment must be the rejection of the old logic and its syllogism. Man must trust to his personal experience, the immediate experience of his senses. Nothing could be more anti-historical in its consequences than this assertion, the unilateralness of which would be astonishing from a man who felt the whole of historical and social world as a pulsing reality, if it was not justified by the intellectual antecedents of the English national consciousness coming to realise its own personality just at the time in which Bacon thought and wrote. He could not very well be expected to see the condition of his own experience in the experience of his forerunners, in the age in which self-assertion was the successful motto of every great man flourishing in England. The abstraction thus made of all the historical past conditioning of man’s experience was balanced for the time being by his own historical and political sense and by the love of life as a whole so strong in Elizabethan days. Yet henceforth reality in the eyes of any true Briton was to be _Empirical Reality_.