Nature to be commanded, must be obeyed

Nature to be commanded, must be obeyed; ….For things that are mean or even filthy, things which must be introduced with an apology, ….must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution…for whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike. Moreover as from certain putrid substances - musk, for instance, and civet - the sweetest odours are sometimes generated, so too from mean and sordid instances there sometimes emanates excellent light and information. But enough and more than enough of this, such fastidiousness being merely childish and effeminate (Bacon, Novum Organum, 120).