The advancement of learning and new atlantis

Like all great philosophers, Bacon took long to mature his works. From his youth upwards he had been thinking about philosophy, knowledge, learning. When, at the age of 16, he was an undergraduate at Cambridge, he became dissatisfied with the philosophy of Aristotle,' for the unfruitfulness of the way and as a young man of 25 he had commenced a philosophy of his own, styled Temporis Partus Maximus.