Wait are you talking about his novel "of Mice and Men"?
<span>Bacon lists Cupid’s attributes in order to compare them to the features of the atom.
Just like Cupid, atoms too are primary seeds that make up the world, and just like Cupid, they are naked, because they are not merged into a compound, but rather remain their "innocent" selves. He doesn't use this comparison to prove that Cupid is real (nobody can do that), or to prove he is a child (he is often portrayed as one), or to disprove the existence of atoms (it has been proven already they exist).
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