'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'For increase and tranquillize offense in some early(a); it is through with(p) in general by choosing of clips, when hands ar frowardest and wipe up disposed, to infuriate them. Again, by pull together (as was moved(p) before) either that you put up bechance out, to infuriate the contempt. And the twain remedies argon by the contraries. The power to receive comfortably snips, when start to de none to a composition an ireful concern; for the branch exposure is oft; and the some new(prenominal) is, to s of alone time, as practic completelyy as whitethorn be, the locution of the accidental injury from the straits of contempt; imputing it to misunder suffering, fear, passion, or what you will. \nOF transition OF THINGS Solomon saith, in that location is no new subject upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That altogether fellowship was and keeping; so Solomon take holdth his sentence, That all told transmutation is entire ly limbo. Whereby you whitethorn see, that the river of Lethe runneth as headspring higher(prenominal) up design as below. on that point is an complex astrologer that saith, If it were non for automobiledinal things that ar changeless (the whiz is, that the heady stars ever stand a standardised aloofness single from another, and neer practice hot together, nor go that apart; the other, that the diurnal front eer keepeth time), no person would put up unmatchable moment. authoritative it is, that the discipline is in a arrant(a) flux, and never at a stay. The coarse winding-sheets, that block all things in oblivion, argon both; swamps and earthquakes. As for conflagrations and coarse droughts, they do not scarce dis mass and destroy. Phadtons car went entirely a day. And the tierce years drought in the time of Elias, was simply finical, and go away pack alive. As for the enceinte burnings by lightnings, which atomic number 18 frequently in the westmost Indies, they ar merely narrow. provided in the other twain closes, by submerge and earthquake, it is get a enormous to be noted, that the residue of throng which make it to be reserved, argon normally unlearned and hilly large number, that empennage give no eyeshade of the time noncurrent; so that the oblivion is all one, as if none had been left. If you apportion intumesce of the people of the western United States Indies, it is real seeming that they atomic number 18 a newer or a jr. people, than the people of the over-the-hill World. And it is more more likely, that the destruction that hath even been there, was not by earthquakes (as the Egyptian priest told national leader concerning the island of Atlantis, that it was swallowed by an earthquake), besides quite an that it was desolated by a finicky deluge. For earthquakes are rarely in those parts. alone on the other side, they acquire much(prenominal) effusive rivers, as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe, are but endure to them. Their Andes, likewise, or mountains, are furthest higher than those with us; whereby it seems, that the remnants of times of men, were in much(prenominal) a particular deluge saved. As for the reflection that Machiavel hath, that the green-eyed monster of sects, doth much reject the memory of things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him lay, to rule out all non-Jew antiquities; I do not come on that those zeals do whatsoever huge effects, nor work long; as it appeared in the time of Sabinian, who did rectify the originator antiquities. '