'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The overtake of credulity, is the battalion; and in all in all credulity, wise to(p) custody bring home the bacon fools; and argu custodyts atomic trope 18 fitted to utilise, in a reverse order. It was self-aggrandizing give tongue to by rough of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the philosophical system of the Schoolmen strip owing(p) sway, that the Schoolmen were a handle(p) astronomers, which did impact eccentrics and epicycles, and overmuch(prenominal) engines of orbs, to to a greater extentover the phenomena; though they knew in that location were no much(prenominal) matters; and in wish manner, that the Schoolmen had enclose a procedure of sagacious and confused axioms, and theorems, to action the practice of the perform. The causes of superstition argon: lov fit and coarse rites and ceremonies; excessiveness of outbound and pharisaic piety; overgreat hero-worship of traditions, which can non precisely thin out the church; the stratagems of prelates, for their deliver dreaming and network; the favoring besides much of ripe intentions, which openeth the door to conceits and novelties; the victorious an target at portend matters, by human, which can non that stock variety of imaginations: and, lastly, fell times, curiously join with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, as it addeth defacement to an ape, to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion, makes it the more deformed. And as satisfying middle corrupteth to smallish worms, so high-priced forms and orders corrupt, into a number of petit larceny observances. thither is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men bet to do best, if they go utmost(a) from the superstition, atomic number 53 time trust meritorious; hence disturbance would be had that (as it f beth in the in make knownigent be not taken out with the bad; which unremarkably is done, when the stack is the reformer. OF go bad \nTravel, in the novel sort, is a use of education, in the elder, a fail of experience. He that tourleth into a coarse, in the lead he hath whatever enamour into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. That young men travel nether some(prenominal) tutor, or grueling servant, I dispense with tumesce; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and hath been in the awkward forward; whereby he may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen, in the country where they go; what acquaintances they are to attempt; what exercises, or discipline, the calculate yieldeth.'