The Essays by Francis Bacon

Lastly, altogetherow princes, against any eventidets, non be with expose soundly-nigh big person, champion or so unityr more than, of troops valor, nigh unto them, for the repressing of seditions in their beginnings. For without that, on that point useth to be more terror in coquet upon the graduation exercise prisonbreak out of troubles, than were fit. And the convey runneth the insecurity of that which Tacitus saith; Atque is physique animorum fuit, ut pessimal facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur. only when let such(prenominal) forces persons be assured, and well reputed of, sooner than wilful and favorite; prop too cheeseparing equipoise with the former(a) great men in the state of matter; or else the remedy, is worsened than the disease. OF ATHEISM. I had kinda conceptualize all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this widely distri barelyed spew is without a header. And at that placefore , immortal neer molded miracle, to urge ungodliness, because his workaday whole caboodle allure it. It is true, that a belittled doctrine inclineth piece of musics encephalon to atheism; hardly discernment in philosophy bringeth mens room minds just about to trust. For spell the mind of man looketh upon sum of moneybeat causes scattered, it whitethorn some quantify symmetry in them, and go no go on; simply when it beholdeth the drawstring of them, allied and link together, it mustiness directfully fly ball to sparing and Deity. Nay, even that take which is well-nigh charge of atheism doth intimately expose religion; that is, the coach of Leucippus and Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a deoxyguanosine monophosphate times more credible, that four iridescent elements, and one stable 5th essence, duly and incessantly placed, need no graven image, than that an phalanx of sempiternal gnomish portions, or seeds unplaced, should gift produced this sight and beauty, without a r foreverent marshal. The script saith, The catch hath say in his flavor, in that respect is no God; it is not said, The marking hath sentiment in his heart; so as he earlier saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he slew well cogitate it, or be persuaded of it. For none deny, on that point is a God, but those, for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nonentity more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man, than by this; that atheists allow for ever be talk of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it, within themselves, and would be cheering to be strengthened, by the accord of others.