Friday, January 14, 2022

A better writer on the lesson from the swan

 Here's yesterday’s note on the swan, better stated: “For what a man had rather were true, that he more readily believes.”

That’s Francis Bacon talking. The sentence is from Novum Organum, published in 1620. I’m only 402 years behind on this story.

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