Scientia potentia est man which constitute power; in this list, "sciences" or "the sciences" are given a minor position: In the English version this passage reads as thus: On a later work, "De Corpore" (1655), also written in Latin, Hobbes expanded the same idea: In Jean Hampton, "Hobbes and the social contract tradition" (1988), Hampton indicates that this quote is 'after Bacon' and in a footnote, that 'Hobbes was Bacon's secretary as a young man and had philosophical discussions with him (Aubrey 1898, 331). The closest expression in Bacon's works is, perhaps, the expression ""scientia potestas est"", found in his "" (1597), which
Ecclesia semper reformanda est Ecclesia semper reformanda est Ecclesia semper reformanda est (Latin for "the church must always be reformed", often – as usual in Latin – shortened to "Ecclesia semper reformanda") is a phrase first greatly popularized by Karl Barth in 1947, allegedly deriving from a saying of St. Augustine. It refers to the conviction of certain Reformed Protestant theologians that the church must continually re-examine itself in order to maintain its purity of doctrine and practice. An early example is Jodocus van Lodenstein, "Beschouwinge van Zion (Contemplation of Zion)", Amsterdam, 1674-1678, who claims the "truth ... that also in the Church there