Bacon Number

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    For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)