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1. We are now living in the age of "information explosion". What lesson can we learn from Bacon's "Of Studies" in our access to information?

We should not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

2. In what sense does reading make a full man?

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.

They perfect nature and are perfected by experience.

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but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.

We should find answers in books but can't rely on them, we should get wistom from them and use it by ourselves.