Francis Bacon and His Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Francis Bacon and His Shakespeare

IT is a thrice-told tale of Gilbert Stuart, the painter, that having confided to a friend a secret in the mixture Of col ors, when this friend afterwards asked that it might be intrusted to another, Stuart refused; writing, I know it, that is 1; you know it, that makes 1 Z tell your friend and there are 1 Z 1 but that is one hundred and eleven.

This graphic portrayal Of the cumulative effect of num bers upon the disclosure of a secret illustrates equally well the multiplied potency Of evidence in the revelation Of the truth, when it links together in a continuous sequence, instead of being merely an aggregation of disconnected facts. That which before had only a nominal value Of three, is thereby, under the established laws Of evidence, raised to an actual probative power of one hundred and eleven; while the addition Of another unit in the like rela tions increases its value to one thousand one hundred and eleven. If we continue this process indefinitely, Arithmetic at length becomes dizzy and we arrive at certainty, the end of mathematics. Always provided that it is possible for the human intellect, unaided, to arrive at certainty regarding anything for only the Infinite One can com prehend all the relations, which in their whole constitute the Truth.

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