BACON returned to
Oxford, where he wrote his last work, the _Compendium Studii Theologiae_.
He died either in this year or in 1294.[1]
[1] For further details concerning BACON'S life, EMILE CHARLES: _Roger
Bacon, sa Vie, ses Ouvrages, ses Doctrines_ (1861); J. H. BRIDGES: _The
Life & Work of Roger Bacon, an Introduction to the Opus Majus_ (edited by
H. G. JONES, 1914); and Mr A. G. LITTLE'S essay in _Roger Bacon Essays_,
may be consulted.
It was not until the publication by Dr SAMUEL JEBB, in 1733, of the
greater part of BACON'S _Opus Majus_, nearly four and a half centuries
after his death, that anything like his rightful position in the
history of philosophy began to be assigned to him. But let his spirit
be no longer troubled, if it were ever troubled by neglect or slander,
for the world, and first and foremost his own country, has paid him due
honour. His septcentenary was duly celebrated in 1914 at his _alma
mater_, Oxford, his statue has there been raised as a memorial to his
greatness, and savants have meted out praise to him in no grudging
tones.[2] Indeed, a voice has here and there been heard depreciating
his better-known namesake FRANCIS,[3] so that the later luminary
should not, standing in the way, obscure the light of the earlier;
though, for my part, I would suggest that one need not be so
one-eyed as to fail to see both lights at once.
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