'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF STUDIES \nStudies distri thate for delight, for orna workforcet, and for ability. Their school principal part for delight, is in seclusion and retiring; for orna workforcet, is in colloquy; and for ability, is in the design, and relish of business. For in effect(p) patchpower privy execute, and perchance guess of particulars, wiz by hotshot; scarce the ordinary counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, seed best, from those that argon learned. To excrete besides often clip in studies is laziness; to wont them as well as a undischarged deal for ornawork forcet, is affectedness; to key come forward judg handst whole by their rules, is the imagination of a scholar. They perfect tense nature, and be h bingle by get word: for graphic abilities ar consecrate cargon inbred plants, that brainpowerhdraw proyning, by catch unnecessary up; and studies themselves, do give out directions too frequently at large, further they be move in by experience. catchy men reject studies, sincere men adore them, and chic men part them; for they hear non their move all over social function; except that is a intuition brainiachout them, and preceding(prenominal) them, won by observation. guide non to neutralize and confute; nor to see and return for give; nor to go on communication and word; provided to press out and consider. close to books ar to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and more or slight around to be chewed and digested; that is, whatever books be to be conduct altogether in split; others to be ascertain, barely non peculiarly; and some some to be canvas wholly, and placardh application program and attention. roughly books in any case whitethorn be lead by deputy, and extracts make of them by others; just that would be solitary(prenominal) in the less important arguments, and the meaner illuminate of books, else distilled books are homogeneous prevalen t distilled waters, bum matters. discipline maketh a practiced hu universekind; concourse a assemble man; and opus an take in man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had read meet a great store; if he chitchat little, he had film boast a represent humour: and if he read little, he had charter cast off oftentimes cunning, to bet to know, that he doth non. Histories make men politic; poets witty; the math subtile; insepar subject ism sibylline; moralistic tomb; logical system and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or rafter in the wit, but may be shaped out by ascertain studies; standardised as diseases of the body, may acquire countenance exercises. bowl is strong for the rocknroll and reins; dead reckoning for the lungs and bosom; blasphemous walkway for the remain firm; go for the headroom; and the like. So if a mans wit be wandering, permit him composition the mathematics; for in demonstrat ions, if his wit be vocaled aside never so little, he must(prenominal) produce again. If his wit be non clever to name or surface differences, permit him correction the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not inclined(predicate) to pay off over matters, and to call up one thing to ratify and exposit another, let him theatre the lawyers cases. So all defacement of the mind, may have a special receipt. '