The value of knowledge?

 The categorization of knowledge as meaningful or abstract is an ambiguous endeavor that Bacon posits in his essay, “Of Studies”. Bacon, the name known to the flag-bearers of empiricism, scientifically depicts the preservation and application of knowledge. Rationalizing the concept of knowledge, its acquisition and its application, Bacon gives a timeless quality and universality to his essay. 

Francis claims that like a plant needs to be pruned, knowledge has a similar disposition, if one is left to their own devices when gaining knowledge and not productively applying it the gained knowledge would be rendered useless and a hodgepodge of facts and information. However, there is a void left in his idea of importance of knowledge. If the importance of knowledge is to be individualized and not universally decided by certain merits and traditions, then the reader would be in potential danger of coming in contact with unsavory knowledge that they may consider vital but in reality it might be harmful in individualistic and societal aspects. The unwisely application of knowledge leads to madness, going all over the place. Whereas, the applicability is quite subjective in its nature. For instance, if you break an egg, it is up to you to have scrambled, poached or turn it into a meal. Application gives personal gratification i.e; dragging a meaning out of the ‘blue curtains’.

In a nutshell, human beings tend to find salvage in literature that they categorically decide to take up for personalized apprehension which cannot be limited to standardized parameters of palatable information.