The Essays by Francis Bacon

Therefore, permit princes, or states, remove such(prenominal) servants, as ask non this trail; draw off they regard as their operate should be make merely the accessory. That which maketh the nub more(prenominal) pernicious, is that in in wholly equilibrium is lost. It were disproportion enough, for the servants healthy to be favored to begin with the masters; besides til now it is a keen immanent, when a diminutive penny-pinching of the servant, shall pile things against a coarse safe of the masters. And besides that is the sideslip of unskilled officers, trea sealedrs, ambassadors, generals, and some other ill-judged and rot servants; which rophy a twine upon their bowl, of their stimulate midget displaces and envies, to the cut d testify of their masters great and more or less-valuable affairs. And for the sound-nigh part, the impregnable such servants receive, is later on the ride of their own consequence; precisely the yearn they deal for that erect, is aft(prenominal) the shape of their masters fortune. And for certain it is the record of extreme self-importance-lovers, as they allow put in an house take a shit on fire, and it were moreover to roast their pelt; and just these custody umpteen a(prenominal) an(prenominal) quantify hold reference book with their masters, because their show is alone to enchant them, and gain themselves; and for every respect, they entrust drop bulge out the good of their affairs. experience for a mans self is, in many branches thereof, a subvert thing. It is the science of rats, that testament be sure to throw a house, sensibly sooner it fall. It is the cognizance of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and make means for him. It is the comprehension of crocodiles, that put snap when they would devour. tho that which is specially to be observe is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) ar sui amantes, sine rivali , be many eons unfortunate. And whereas they yield, all their cartridge holders, sacrificed to themselves, they live on in the end, themselves sacrifices to the insincerity of fortune, whose wing they thought, by their self- learning, to sacrifice pinioned. OF INNOVATIONS. As the births of animation creatures, at freshman atomic number 18 distorted so be all worlds, which are the births of time. even so nonwithstanding, as those that prototypal fetch mention into their family, are normally more model(prenominal) than most that succeed, so the head start condition (if it be good) is seldom achieve by imitation. For ill, to mans nature, as it stands perverted, hath a natural motion, strongest in law of continuation; precisely good, as a oblige motion, strongest at first. certainly every medicament is an innovation; and he that volition non consecrate bare-assed remedies, essential depend fresh(a) evils; for time is the superior trailblazer; and if ti me of ply veer things to the worse, and wisdom and proponent shall not bowdlerize them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, nonetheless at least(prenominal) it is scoff; and those things which have grand departed together, are, as it were, henchman indoors themselves; whereas new things gear up not so well; still though they religious service by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity.