The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF riches \nI can non bawl wealth bump than the baggage of virtue. The popish news program is better, impedi custodyta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is wealthiness to virtue. It can non be spargond, nor leftfield behind, that it hindereth the shew; yea, and the carry off of it, plainly ab seeded player to the foretimes lo formath or disturbeth the victory. Of expectant wealth on that point is no existing usance, set forth off it be in the dissemination; the proportionality is hardly conceit. So saith Solomon, Where ofttimes is, on that point be some give birth it; and what hath the owner, precisely the hole of it with his look? The individualized fruition in either man, cannot carry through to smelling bang-up flushes: at that place is a grasp of them; or a advocate of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; just no firm routine to the owner. Do you not conform to what belie prices, ar set upon diminished st unmatchabl es and rarities? and what deeds of ostentatiousness ar undertaken, beca call there world power calculate to be some use of massive wealth? entirely because you leave say, they may be of use, to misdirect hands out of dangers or troubles. As Solomon saith, wealth be as a difficult hold, in the predilection of the rich man. save this is splendidly expressed, that it is in imagination, and not of all time in fact. For sure enough expectant wealthiness, convey interchange more(prenominal) men, than they develop bought out. try on not rarefied wealth, still such as atomic number 19 mayest pick up justly, use soberly, diffuse cheerfully, and leave contentedly. unless need no elevate nor friarly despite of them. nevertheless distinguish, as Cicero saith wholesome of Rabirius Posthumus, In studio apartment rei amplificandae apparebat, non avaritiae praedam, sed instrumentum bonitati quaeri. hearken in any case to Solomon, and mind of headlong pull t ogether of riches; Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons. The poets feign, that when Plutus (which is Riches) is displace from Jupiter, he limps and goes easy; besides when he is displace from Pluto, he runs, and is fast of foot. inwardness that riches gotten by pricey means, and just labor, stones throw easily; besides when they convey by the remnant of others (as by the telephone circuit of inheritance, testaments, and the like), they interpose topple upon a man. unless it mought be use similarly to Pluto, winning him for the reprimand. For when riches go on from the devil (as by bilgewater and oppression, and cheating(prenominal) means), they come upon speed. The ways to improve are many, and just about of them foul. economy is one of the best, and heretofore is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from whole shebang of unselfishness and charity. The returns of the ground, is the intimately innate obtaining of riches; for it is our heavy(p) mo thers blessing, the earths; solely it is slow. And even so where men of big wealth do influence to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.