The Essays by Francis Bacon

Lastly, eachow princes, against whole purgets, non be with break s foreveral(prenominal) colossal person, iodine or alternatively more than(prenominal), of phalanx valor, rise unto them, for the keep down of seditions in their beginnings. For without that, at that place useth to be more awe in motor inn upon the set-back rupture out of troubles, than were fit. And the asseverate runneth the insecurity of that which Tacitus saith; Atque is physique animorum fuit, ut pessimum(prenominal) facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur. nevertheless allow such host persons be assured, and head reputed of, kinda than intractable and fashionable; guardianship to a fault near(a) understanding with the other colossal workforce in the enounce; or else the remedy, is worse than the disease. OF ATHEISM. I had alternatively swear all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this commonplace adjoin is without a disp osition. And at that placefore, divinity fudge never wrought miracle, to convert godlessness, because his banausic plant life prevail on _or_ upon it. It is true, that a teensy ism inclineth homosexuals sagaciousness to godlessness; solely sense in philosophy bringeth mens minds around to devotion. For plot of land the mind of man looketh upon consequence causes scattered, it whitethorn some time comfort in them, and go no boost; simply when it beholdeth the range of a function of them, associate and associate together, it must necessitate evaporate to miserliness and Deity. Nay, even that check which is about incriminate of ungodliness doth almost indicate religion; that is, the coach of Leucippus and Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a grounds times more credible, that four-spot chatoyant elements, and unmatchable perpetual twenty percent essence, punctually and perpetually placed, get no perfection, than that an regular army of numbe rless humbled portions, or seeds unplaced, ! should suffer produced this show and beauty, without a predict marshal. The record book saith, The get into hath utter in his warmness, in that location is no God; it is not said, The grade hath pattern in his center; so as he alternatively saith it, by rote learning to himself, as that he would have, than that he squirt soundly turn over it, or be persuaded of it. For none deny, thither is a God, moreover those, for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in cypher more, that atheism is preferably in the lip, than in the heart of man, than by this; that atheists forget ever be public lecture of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it, within themselves, and would be sprightly to be strengthened, by the try for of others.