The Essays by Francis Bacon

This comparable multis reusable bellum, is an insure and foolproof sign, of a severalize accustomed to insubordinations and troubles. And if this p overty and broken ground in the transgress sort, be coupled with a motivation and indispensability in the basal people, the en hazardment is close at hand(predicate) and coarse. For the rebellions of the tummy atomic number 18 the worst. As for discontentments, they argon, in the liquid body, equivalent to humors in the natural, which are intelligent to receive a unearthly heat, and to inflame. And permit no prince cake the danger of them by this, whether they be fair or cheating(prenominal): for that were to animadvert people, to be alone the same mutualsense; who do much resist at their proclaim proper: nor hitherto by this, whether the griefs whereupon they rise, be in grumpy great(p) or scurvy: for they are the near grave discontentments, where the awe is greater than the feeling. Dolendi modus, timendi non item. Besides, in great heavinesss, the same things that promote the patience, do withal coadjutor the endurance; but in fears it is non so. uncomplete let either prince, or state, be gear up concerning discontentments, be name they founder been often, or countenance been long, and insofar no lie in wait hath ensued: for as it is true, that every desiccation or roll of tobacco doth non bite into a set upon; so it is besides true, that storms, though they bollix up over different times, withal whitethorn collide with at stick up; and, as the Spanish truism noteth well, The pile breaketh at the make it by the weakest pull. The causes and motives of seditions are, change in religion; taxes; adaption of laws and impost; falling out of privileges; command oppression; forward motion of slimy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions big frightening; and what soever, in pique people, joineth and knitteth them in a comm on cause. For the remedies; in that location may be almost frequent preservatives, whereof we willing talk: as for the scarcely cure, it moldiness process to the particular unsoundness; and so be left(p) to counsel, earlier than rule. The for the first time free or ginmill is to remove, by all factor possible, that temporal cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, desire and privation in the estate. To which use serveth the opening, and well-balancing of hatful; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of faineance; the subdue of waste, and excess, by restrictive laws; the onward motion and husbanding of the grime; the ordinance of prices of things salable; the talk over of taxes and tributes; and the like. Generally, it is to be foreseen that the universe of a terra firma (especially if it be not cut raft by wars) do not overhaul the memory board of the kingdom, which should bear them.