Bacon never questioned the hierarchy and patriarchy underpinning his utopia.

Evidence

Hierarchy and patriarchy, which supported social inequality in actual seventeenth-century society, were not even questioned by Bacon. That they formed the very foundation of his ideal state was an indication of his nonegalitarian philosophy. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 700

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the polyad’s thread about Bacon as the father of exploitative science; his political egalitarian failure mirrors his ecological exploitation ethic.