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>>2937057 ob "White text looks shopped."
https://www.loc.gov/item/2007684376/
Text not shopped.
Bacon, quoted in the photo of the actual image on display in the Library of Congress, faults and all.
In abbreviated form, natch.
Source for abbreviated quote:
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Essays (1625) ‘Of Truth’
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Francis_Bacon,_Volume_1/Essays/Of_Truth
You said something that Anons might well consider carefully: What is "belief of truth"? There is no "belief of truth", you asserted. "Only knowledge of truth."
Unpack: The inquiry of truth, the knowledge of truth, and the belief of truth.
(Whole greater than its parts. It is not "only" a part.)
This is the sovereign good of human nature.
What is "sovereign good"? What is "human nature"? Here Bacon summarized based on first principles. An invitation dated 1625.
A truth of our nature (or essence) is no less a truth for having appeared carved and emblazoned -- and now supported by, in this example, two winged geniuses also carved into the display.
See the Main Reading Room, Library of Congress. Look for the particular pendentive.
If you find it, please acknowledge. Not shopped. And its sense is not false.
The inquiry is a pursuit of that which exists. One might not believe in what one pursues, I suppose, but that would remove the anticipated enjoyment of what one pursues, yes?
Is the pursuit alone -- is it without actual knowledge, sought, wooed, desired -- all that Bacon spoke of in "Of Truth"? No. Is knowledge of truth a standalone -- no pursuit and no enjoyment? If not the satisfaction of attaining knowledge of truth, what moves one to search for it? Expand your thinking -- what is enjoyment of truth?
See pics. Enjoy.
Cheers.
And allspeed, Anons.
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Chicago citation style:
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Main Reading Room. Detail of winged geniuses in pendentive holding an inscribed plaque. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Washington D.C, 2007. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007684376/
https://www.loc.gov/visit/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/main-reading-room/