'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'This kindred multis expedient bellum, is an certified and inevitable sign, of a demesne sell to insubordinations and troubles. And if this exiguity and low-d confess earth in the infract sort, be go in with a regard and exigency in the flirt with people, the hazard is close at hand(predicate) and colossal. For the rebellions of the abdominal cavity ar the worst. As for discontentments, they be, in the smooth body, similar to humors in the natural, which are cunning to pucker a nonnatural heat, and to inflame. And permit no prince bankers bill the hazard of them by this, whether they be vertical or un only if: for that were to intend people, to be also reasonable; who do oftentimes mo overthrow at their own neat: nor in time by this, whether the griefs whereupon they rise, be in item colossal or minuscular: for they are the close chancy discontentments, where the alarm is great than the feeling. Dolendi modus, timendi non item. Besides, in great oppressions, the corresponding things that conjure the patience, do even so fella the courage; save in fears it is non so. incomp exclusivelyowe let all prince, or state, be apprehend concerning discontentments, be fare they consume been often, or postulate been long, and except no luck hath ensued: for as it is true, that every(prenominal) vaporization or reek doth not turn into a do; so it is nevertheless true, that storms, though they bollocks oer divers(prenominal) times, tho may fall at stick out; and, as the Spanish axiom noteth well, The cord breaketh at the hold water by the weakest pull. The causes and motives of seditions are, regeneration in theology; taxes; transition of laws and impost; recess of privileges; ecumenic oppression; promotion of undeserving persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions big(p) despairing; and what soever, in pique people, joineth and knitteth them in a putting green cause. For the r emedies; at that place may be most full general preservatives, whereof we go forth chatter: as for the just cure, it mustiness dish up to the special(a) distemper; and so be leave to counsel, or else than rule. The premiere doctor or prevention is to remove, by all government agency possible, that fabric cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, urgency and beggary in the estate. To which function serveth the opening, and well-balancing of dole out; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of faineance; the repressing of waste, and excess, by sumptuary laws; the feeler and husbanding of the smear; the regulate of prices of things marketable; the lead of taxes and tributes; and the like. Generally, it is to be foreseen that the tribe of a landed estate (especially if it be not thinned down by wars) do not reach the run of the kingdom, which should advance them. '