Quoting from James Spedding Preface to the "New Atlantis": "...the vision not of an ideal world released from the natural conditions to which ours is subject, but of our own world as it might be made if we did our duty by it..." For Bacon the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which he desired rather than hoped to see to be the characteristics of his own country. Moreover, it is not about a …
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…Bensalem's school of natural philosophy is the House of Solomon, which investigates nature in a respectful attempt to discover the benefits placed in creation by a loving God. Europe's natural philosophy has been marginalized and corrupted by scholastic and philosophical altercation. Perhaps Bacon intends to suggest that England's spiritual renewal coupled with his reform of knowledge will permit it to stimulate the engineering and navigational deeds of Atlantis; therefore, England can become the new Atlantis.