The men of one generation can never look at Truth with the same eyes as their fathers. In one age the change will be more rapid, in another less. But quick or slow it is always going forward.
Progress is inevitable and it is for our health.
It is an impossibility nowadays for any student of Elizabethan literature to ignore the so called Shakespeare-Bacon theory. I am uncertain what effect this book may have upon it. In any case, however, the additonal light thrown upon it must be an advantage. As a modern scientist has said, Delusion and Error do not perish by controversial warfare.