All his life, Bacon worked upon a large-scale plan for the Instauratio magna. Science, according to Bacon, must give man power over nature, increase his might, and improve his life. In the words of Marx, for Bacon “science is an empirical science and consists of the application of rational method to sensory data” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. Milonov, K. K. Filosofiia Frantsiska Bekona. Anderson, F. H. The Philosophy of F. Bacon.