Excerpt from Francis Bacon and His Secret Society: An Attempt to Collect and Unite the Lost Links of a Long and Strong ChainTwenty years have rolled away since the first edition of this book, having vainly struggled for leave to chirp and twitter at home, spread its small wings and flew over to America, in hopes that in that spacious and "liberal air" it might pipe and whistle freely.The opposition which in those days beset any book daring to set forth true particulars concerning the hidden life of "Bacon" seems almost too strange to be true, but Records of such passages have been carefully stored for the student of a future generation. Meanwhile, although opposition to Baconian publication continues the case is altered. Matters put forward with diffidence and reserve have been now declared indubitably correct, and the suppressive methods of Librarians, Custodians, and the Press in general, with regard to unpublished records, or anything touching the life and works of the concealed Poet-Philosopher (although continued), are now to a great extent understood.At the age of 15 Francis began to draw together his "Invisible Brotherhood," the Rosicrucian Fraternity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.