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We understand from the passage that Bacon regarded science as a means to ____ .
The seventeenth-century scientist Francis Bacon was the
first to insist that science be methodically separated from
values so as to make it truly 'neutral', or objective. In
reality, he did nothing of the sort. His 'scientific
knowledge', instead of being value-free, set out explicitly
and purposefully to give humanity power over nature.
'Truth and utility are perfectly identical,' he wrote in his
“Novum Organum”, and 'that which is most useful in
practice is most correct in theory'. In effect, he merely
replaced the old 'subjective' values of 'good' and 'evil'
with the values of 'useful' and 'useless', or more precisely
'of contributing or not contributing to man's domination
over or transformation of the natural world'. There were to
be no limits to this transformation. His goal was explicitly
stated. It was to 'achieve all things achievable'. At least he
was honest enough to admit the fact. Modern science has
followed Bacon's lead exactly, but does not admit it.