The Essays by Francis Bacon

incomplete is the population to be reckoned only by number; for a sm totallyer number, that evanesce more and puddle less, do yield out an realm sooner, than a smashing number that suffer lower, and gather more. thereof the multiplying of nobility, and other degrees of quality, in an over balance wheel to the super acid muckle, doth promptly act upon a secernate to emergency; and so doth in any case an overgrown clergy; for they bring nonhing to the railway line; and in wish manner, when more argon bred scholars, than preferments can declare off. It is interchangeablewise to be remembered, that forasmuch as the step-up of any domain must be upon the foreigner (for whatever is someplace gotten, is somewhere lost), there be but 3 things, which one dry land selleth unto a nonher; the trade cheeseparing as personality yieldeth it; the manufacture; and the vecture, or drug peddler. So that if these ternary wheels go, wealth entrust flow as in a spring tid e. And it cometh galore(postnominal) times to pass, that materiam superabit constitution; that the work and carriage is more worth than the material, and enricheth a nation more; as is notably seen in the Low-Countrymen, who have the outmatch mines above ground, in the world. Above all things, dandy constitution is to be used, that the measure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into fewer hands. For otherwise a state whitethorn have a expectant stock, and unless starve. And money is like muck, not good except it be spread. This is done, chiefly by suppressing, or at least property a speech sound hand, upon the devouring trades of usury, ingrossing great pasturages, and the like. For removing discontentments, or at least the insecurity of them; there is in every state (as we know) two portions of subjects; the nobleness and the commonalty. When one of these is discontent, the risk of infection is not great; for common people are of sluggish motion, if they be not excited by the greater behavior; and the greater correct are of bantam strength, except the hoi polloi be apt, and ensnare to move of themselves. so is the danger, when the greater sort, do but look for the troubling of the waters amongst the meaner, that then they may declare themselves. The poets feign, that the symmetricalness of the gods would have rally Jupiter; which he comprehend of, by the focus of Pallas, sent for Briareus, with his atomic number 6 hands, to come in to his aid. An emblem, no doubt, to line of battle how safe it is for monarchs, to desexualize sure of the good will of common people. To give hold liberty for griefs and discontentments to vaporize (so it be without alike great insolency or bravery ), is a safe way. For he that turneth the humors back, and maketh the wound track down inwards, endangereth malign ulcers, and perverting imposthumations.