The image is from a statue of Francis Bacon. I recently read a Francis Bacon biography by Alfred Dodd titled "Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story." In the preface he states that he needed to write the biography because other biographers "...are content with sketching the 'outer man,' rejecting on a priori grounds that Francis Bacon was either a concealed poet or of royal birth, the founder of secret societies or an ethical teacher; and neither seems to have the faintest idea of his prime aim in life or the proper interpretation of The Great Instauration,.." That being said ,Alfred went off and outdid himself and wrote a fantastic biography, a true account of a truly great man.
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