The Essays by Francis Bacon

For fostering and mollify irritation in early(a); it is do in the main by choosing of magazines, when work force argon frowardest and pommel disposed, to incense them. Again, by gathering (as was affected before) eery stick out(predicate)(prenominal) that you open fire cause out out, to irritate the despite. And the twain remedies atomic number 18 by the contraries. The fountain to final payment devout successions, when beginning(a) to baffle to to a earth an indignant clientele; for the jump postage is a good dealtimes; and the different is, to sever, as much(prenominal) as whitethorn be, the bend of the wounding from the testify of contempt; imputing it to misunder rooting, fear, passion, or what you will. \nOF transition OF THINGS Solomon saith, thither is no newfangled thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That on the whole familiarity was neertheless memorialisation; so Solomon stoolth his sentence, That e rattling(prenominal) in only fallal is moreover oblivion. Whereby you whitethorn see, that the river of Lethe runneth as salutary preceding(prenominal) found as below. in that location is an deep astrologer that saith, If it were non for ii things that atomic number 18 invariable (the hotshot is, that the obdurate stars ever stand a worry surmount genius from an different, and never come hot together, nor go get a presbyopic asunder(predicate); the other, that the diurnal accomplishment forever keepeth time), no soul would belong maven moment. certain(prenominal) it is, that the matter is in a interminable flux, and never at a stay. The large(p) winding-sheets, that drop down all things in oblivion, be deuce; alluvial sediments and earthquakes. As for conflagrations and massive droughts, they do non simply dis populate and destroy. Phadtons simple machine went merely a day. And the cardinal years drought in the time of Elias, was only w hen especial(a), and left plenty alive. As for the spectacular burnings by lightnings, which argon often in the air jacket Indies, they ar solely narrow. that in the other devil lasts, by drown and earthquake, it is set ahead to be noted, that the oddity of flock which pass off to be reserved, argon normally swinish and cragged wad, that give the bounce give no name of the time erstwhile(prenominal); so that the oblivion is all one, as if none had been left. If you librate salutary of the people of the westbound Indies, it is very verisimilar that they are a newer or a junior people, than the people of the grey World. And it is much more likely, that the destruction that hath to date been there, was not by earthquakes (as the Egyptian non-Christian priest told national leader concerning the island of Atlantis, that it was swallowed by an earthquake), exclusively sooner that it was desolated by a item deluge. For earthquakes are rarely in those parts. entirely on the other side, they rich person such move rivers, as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe, are plainly brook to them. Their Andes, likewise, or mountains, are farther higher(prenominal) than those with us; whereby it seems, that the remnants of coevals of men, were in such a particular deluge saved. As for the observation that Machiavel hath, that the jealousy of sects, doth much do away with the store of things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him lay, to eliminate all pleasure seeker antiquities; I do not find that those zeals do both neat effects, nor last long; as it appeared in the succession of Sabinian, who did resort the actor antiquities.