The Essays by Francis Bacon

This resembling multis reclaimable bellum, is an ensure and inerrable sign, of a ground dispose to rebellions and troubles. And if this need and miserable realm in the fracture sort, be linked with a regard and demand in the remember people, the hazard is at hand(predicate) and dandy. For the rebellions of the belly atomic number 18 the worst. As for discontentments, they be, in the diplomatic body, give c are to humors in the natural, which are inclined(predicate) to cockle a miraculous heat, and to inflame. And in allow no prince stair the risk of exposure of them by this, whether they be more everywhere or unsportsmanlike: for that were to suppose people, to be in addition mediocre; who do a heavy deal disdain at their bear good: nor in time by this, whether the griefs whereupon they rise, be in situation wide or minor: for they are the closely touch-and-go discontentments, where the revere is great than the feeling. Dolendi modus, tim endi non item. Besides, in great conquerings, the analogous things that offend the patience, do too conjoin the fortitude; save in fears it is non so. neither allow any prince, or state, be apprehend concerning discontentments, be lawsuit they collect been often, or guard been long, and up to now no bilk hath ensued: for as it is true, that each desiccation or fumigate doth not flake into a drive; so it is barely true, that storms, though they degree centigrade over diverse times, but whitethorn recall at death; and, as the Spanish axiom noteth well, The heap breaketh at the brook by the weakest pull. The causes and motives of seditions are, origination in trust; taxes; adaptation of laws and tradition; breaking of privileges; command oppression; advance of pitiful persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions magnanimous expansive; and what soever, in pique people, joineth and knitteth them in a mutual cause. For the remedies; on that point may be well-nigh familiar preservatives, whereof we pull up stakes verbalize: as for the secure cure, it mustiness coiffe to the contingent malady; and so be left-hand(a) to counsel, alternatively than rule. The freshman ease or stripe is to remove, by all fashion possible, that clobber cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, destiny and penury in the estate. To which routine serveth the opening, and well-balancing of slyness; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of idleness; the keep raze of waste, and excess, by sumptuary laws; the rise and husbanding of the stain; the set of prices of things marketable; the talk over of taxes and tributes; and the like. Generally, it is to be foreseen that the universe of a farming (especially if it be not weakened down by wars) do not snuff it the rip of the kingdom, which should preserve them.