Experimentalism and Political Philosophy

In Process and Reality, Whitehead mentions Bacon only twice, and very briefly.  In both cases, it is to criticize Bacon for ignoring the value of Speculation in the pursuit of Knowledge, though absent in these passages is any reference to Bacon's novel, New Atlantis, arguably the first work of Modern Political Philosophy.  On the other hand, he elsewhere brands as "cooking the books" Dewey's Experimentalism, the pioneer of which is--Bacon.  Now, Whitehead is far from alone in under-appreciating Bacon--it is perhaps the only thing contemporary Philosophy and Political Science academic departments have in common.  Accordingly, little consideration, at least prior to Dewey, has been given to the characterization of the formation of the United States as an "experiment", to which mainstream Political Philosophy, neither Ancient nor Modern, seems adequate.