1. Which of Bacons idols is the most difficult to understand? Do your best to define it.

2.Which of these idols do we still need to worry about? why? what dangers does it present?

3. Occasionally bacon says something that seems a bit like an aphorism (see the introduction to Machiavelli). Find at least one such expression in the selection. On this examination does the examination, does the expression have as much meaning as it seems to have?