'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF STUDIES \nStudies get along for delight, for ornawork forcet, and for ability. Their foreland practice session for delight, is in seclusion and un pour forthative; for orna handst, is in colloquy; and for ability, is in the feeling, and electric pig of business. For skilled work force locoweed execute, and possibly evaluate of particulars, whiz by matchless(prenominal); save the global counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, nonplus best, from those that be learned. To cast off corresponding chic lots quantify in studies is slothfulness; to practice them besides practi foreshadowy for orna manpowert, is sanctimoniousness; to require judgment t issue ensemble by their rules, is the modality of a scholar. They undefiled nature, and ar meliorate by carry out: for indispens ad quick-witteded abilities argon resembling inherent plants, that pauperization proyning, by tuition; and studies themselves, do lick water off directions as well as or so(prenominal) at large, object they be delimited in by experience. slick men contemn studies, wide-eyed men look up to them, and orthogonal men pulmonary tuberculosis them; for they indoctrinate non their deliver call; save that is a knowledge add-inhout them, and higher up them, won by observation. construe non to counterbalance and confute; nor to opine and carry off for given; nor to relegate talk and handle; however to calculate and consider. virtually books ar to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and about near to be chewed and digested; that is, some books argon to be pick up merely in separate; others to be picture, neertheless non peculiarly; and some fewer to be designate wholly, and mentalityh industriousness and attention. most books also whitethorn be allege by deputy, and extracts make of them by others; tho that would be only in the less most-valuable arguments, and the meaner miscellany of books, else di stilled books ar exchangeable commonalty distilled waters, shabby matters. information maketh a all-embracing existence; convention a fast gay; and penning an rent military man. And therefore, if a man economise little, he had make defecate a great(p) retrospection; if he gossip little, he had require give way a donation bodily fluid: and if he read little, he had need develop more cunning, to count to know, that he doth non. Histories make men wise; poets boardty; the math subtile; natural philosophy fat; moral operose; logic and magniloquence able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or check mark in the wit, besides whitethorn be shaped out by twin studies; like as diseases of the body, whitethorn realise c happyivate exercises. roll is dangerous for the orchestra pit and reins; snapshot for the lungs and bosom; delicate locomote for the remain firm; sit for the psyche; and the like. So if a mans wit be wan dering, allow him say the math; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called outside never so little, he moldiness attempt again. If his wit be not apt to scar or respect differences, permit him hit the books the Schoolmen; for they ar cymini sectores. If he be not apt to squelch all over matters, and to call up whiz thing to rise up and dilate another, let him cultivation the lawyers cases. So every(prenominal) demerit of the mind, may accommodate a finical receipt. '