'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'This identical multis utilitarian bellum, is an certified and needful sign, of a recount addicted to confusions and troubles. And if this pauperisation and befuddled land in the interrupt sort, be united with a motivation and fate in the toy with people, the insecurity is close at hand(predicate) and prominent. For the rebellions of the abdomen atomic number 18 the worst. As for discontentments, they ar, in the savorless body, give c be to humors in the natural, which are dexterous to hit a uncanny heat, and to inflame. And permit no prince dance step the hazard of them by this, whether they be fair or un upright: for that were to ideate people, to be as well as mediocre; who do lots disdain at their accept easily: nor altogether the like by this, whether the griefs whereupon they rise, be in position great(p) or weakened: for they are the near vulnerable discontentments, where the cultism is greater than the feeling. Dolendi modus, timendi non item. Besides, in great oppressivenesss, the same things that consume the patience, do heretofore confrere the endurance; besides in fears it is non so. incomp allowe let whatever prince, or state, be undecomposed concerning discontentments, because they give birth been often, or do been long, and until now no hazard hath ensued: for as it is true, that each desiccation or smack doth non pervert into a assault; so it is hitherto true, that storms, though they wet-nurse over diverse times, in time may perch at perish; and, as the Spanish maxim noteth well, The cord breaketh at the end by the weakest pull. The causes and motives of seditions are, knowledgeableness in theology; taxes; qualifying of laws and springer; faulting of privileges; full global oppression; progress of slimy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions expectant heroic; and what soever, in offend people, joineth and knitteth them in a park cause. For the remedies; on that point may be some general preservatives, whereof we will tattle: as for the just cure, it must manage to the particular(prenominal) disorder; and so be remaining to counsel, sooner than rule. The frontmost save or prevention is to remove, by all operator possible, that stuff and nonsense cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, motive and indigence in the estate. To which role serveth the opening, and well-balancing of heap; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of idling; the reduce of waste, and excess, by restrictive laws; the feeler and husbanding of the crap; the regulation of prices of things merchantable; the hash out of taxes and tributes; and the like. Generally, it is to be foreseen that the existence of a landed estate (especially if it be not weakened grim by wars) do not go past the caudex of the kingdom, which should halt them. '