Possible Clues:

• Bacon, perhaps poor, prepared with his help
• His help with poor's extraordinary, I think
• Investigator of the nature of being
• Bacon, for instance, that's poor sorted out with his help
• Metaphysician
• 23 with a stone?
• Thinker with stone associated with 24
• Deep thinker
• Plato, say, in one of his letters: 'Work hard to stop failure'
• Pressure on Polish hero worried deep thinker