Francis Bacon was a 16th century philosopher who argued for scientific knowledge based upon inductive reasoning and careful observation. In his work Novum Organum he speaks about the Four Idols, a set of ideas that impedes humanity’s ability to think with complete inductive and logical thought. These idols are very profound in Herman Melville’s 1853 Short Story “Bartelby the … Continue reading Idols of the Narrator – Bartelby and Novum Organum