Our mascot
His name is Francis and he is our mascot for a number of reasons, all of which are important.
First, Francis the owl is named after Sir Francis Bacon, the Father of the Scientific Method. Francis Bacon is the most important person you’ve probably never heard of.
Throughout his life, he contributed to the advancement of knowledge in countless areas, bringing the world out of the Dark Ages into the Enlightenment.
After his death, his ideas were the kindling used by a handful of the world’s greatest thinkers like Isaac Newton, Voltaire, and John Locke to ignite the fire of the Enlightenment across Europe through methodical, scientific analysis, empowering humans - as individuals - to take back control of their lives from the tyrannical despots of the day - in all forms: body, mind, and spirit.
He relied not just upon his ideas, but upon empirical evidence for the validation of those ideas. The thoughts he chose to write down, to push into the collective conscious of the human race through his books, plays, and poems, were radical in the 1600s. They’re ironically even more relevant today. They were heretical in the best way.
His patron saint was the Truth. Sir Francis Bacon believed that science is the exploration of nature. And so do we. Science and nature are not at odds - as the modern medical machine would like you to think. In fact, one is the exploration of the language of the other.
Bacon’s mind was the gravitational pull that, within a century inspired men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in the establishment of the Colonies in the Americas: a Utopian idea, a new Atlantis. But unlike so many Utopian projects before it, and after… this one actually worked.
Jefferson proclaimed in one of his many letters during the American Revolution...
