# Bacon — On the Art of Writing character guide

> Bacon in On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0008-lecture-vi-on-the-capital-difficulty-of-prose

## Who they are

Elizabethan philosopher and essayist cited for aphoristic style.

## In the story

### [Lecture XI: English Literature in Our Universities (II)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/on_the_art_of_writing_se/chapters/lecture-xi-english-literature-in-our-universities-ii)

Quoted at the end: 'Regnum Scientiae ut regnum Coeli non nisi sub persona infantis intratur.'

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