New Atlantis

None of Bacon's writings gives in short apace so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this fragment of the plan of an ideal commonwealth.

没有哪部培根的作品能够像这个理想共和国计划的片段一样，如此生动地展现他的品味和抱负。

The advancement of science which he sought was conceived by him as a means to a practical end—the increase of man's control over nature, and the comfort and convenience of humanity.

他所追求的科学发展被视为达到实际目的的手段——增加人类对自然的控制，以及人类的舒适和便利。