LEARNING FROM FRANCIS BACOM
(PART FOUR)
Part
one to three were posted on 15th, 16th, and 17th
March.
1.
Causes
and motives of seditions are innovation in religion, taxes, alteration of laws
and customs, breaking of privilege, general oppression, advancement of unworthy
persons, strangers, dearths, disbanded soldiers, faction grown desperate, and
whatsoever in offending people joineth and knitteth them in a common cause.
2.
It
is true that a little philosophy inclineth Man’s mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth Man’s mind about to religion.
3.
They
that deny a God destroy Man’s nobility, for certainly Man is of kin to the
beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is base and
ignoble creature.
4.
Travel
in the youngest sort, is a part of education: in the elder, a part of
experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance
unto the language, goeth to school, not to a travel.
5.
As
to secrecy; princes are not bound to communicate all matters with all counsellors,
but may extract and select.
6.
An
ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing in an orchard or garden. And certainly men that are great lovers
of themselves waste the public. Divide with reason between self-love and society.
7.
Wisdom
for a man’s self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the
wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it falls.
8.
A
principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and
swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do call and induce.
9.
A
man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; where friendship is, all
offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy.
10.
Riches
are for the spending, and spending for honour and good actions; therefore
extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for
voluntary undoing may be as well for a man’s country as for kingdom of heaven.
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G.R. Kanwal
18th March 2026
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