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New Atlantis

noun

  1. a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.


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There is nothing unusual about the discovery of a new Atlantis site.

Sooner or later some hardy sailor would find the surviving peaks of this new Atlantis.

Something tells me this is the New Atlantis described by Bacon.

The New Atlantis is the picture of an ideal community whose common purpose is scientific investigation.

The "New Atlantis" and other short works in quantity amount to very little.

Backward and forward across the Pacific through four centuries have moved the makers of this new Atlantis.

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