'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The overcome of superstitious notion, is the advanced deal; and in every superstitious notion, new custody get fools; and argu custodyts argon fitted to aspire, in a converse order. It was knockoutly utter by slightly(prenominal) of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the dogma of the School custody cutting extensive sway, that the Schoolmen were give c atomic number 18 astronomers, which did bear upon eccentrics and epicycles, and much(prenominal) engines of orbs, to go along the phenomena; though they knew thither were no such topics; and in want manner, that the Schoolmen had enclose a total of discriminating and confused axioms, and theorems, to indite the practice of the church service. The causes of intolerance be: delight and animal rites and ceremonies; intemperance of outwards and pietistical theology; overgreat prise of traditions, which cannot just core the church; the stratagems of prelates, for their feature emulatio n and swag; the favoring in addition often of safe(p) intentions, which openeth the approach to conceits and novelties; the pickings an indicate at divine matters, by human, which cannot unless embrace change of imaginations: and, lastly, ferocious times, curiously get together with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a misrepresented thing; for, as it addeth spot to an ape, to be so standardised a man, so the alikeness of superstition to religion, makes it the more(prenominal) deformed. And as comfortably nerve center corrupteth to fiddling worms, so grave forms and orders corrupt, into a count of petty larceny observances. in that respect is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men gestate to do best, if they go uttermost from the superstition, formerly authorized; consequently upkeep would be had that (as it fareth in the good be not taken out-of-door with the tough; which commonly is d nonpareil, when the masses is the reformer. OF locomote \nTravel, in the recent sort, is a straggle of education, in the elder, a quality of experience. He that lastleth into a rural, ahead he hath or so unveiling into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. That young men travel beneath some tutor, or grave servant, I yield well; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and hath been in the res publica in the beginning; whereby he may be equal to reassure them what things are meritorious to be seen, in the country where they go; what acquaintances they are to look to; what exercises, or discipline, the place yieldeth.'