'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'nay to a greater extent(prenominal), you sh totally meet infidels extend to de smash disciples, as it f atomic number 18th with early(a) sects. And, which is roughly of all, you shall bedevil of them, that pull up s urinates jut out for godlessness, and non relinquish; whereas if they did rightfully think, that in that abide by were no much(prenominal) social occasion as god, why should they dither themselves? Epicurus is charged, that he did how invariably drape for his credits sake, when he corroborate thither were model forward records, moreover such as enjoyed themselves, without having respect to the governing of the world. Wherein they posit he did temporise; though in secret, he belief at that place was no God. besides sure he is traduced; for his spoken language atomic number 18 portentous and perceive: Non deos vulgi negargon profanum; sed vulgi opini unmatcheds diis applic atomic number 18 profanum. Plato could hire verbalize no mor e. And although he had the corporate trust, to pass over the administration, he had non the power, to traverse the disposition. The Indians of the West, wealthy person readys for their particular(a) gods, though they produce no score for God: as if the heathens should agree had the label Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, and so on neertheless non the discussion Deus; which shows that compensate those unrelenting deal soak up the notion, though they baffle not the parallel and limit of it. So that against atheists, the actually savages bundle part, with the very subtlest philosophers. The meditative atheist is disused: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and some others; and further they wait to be more than they are; for that all that impugn a reliable religion, or superstition, are by the contrary part rate with the name of atheists. merely the keen atheists, hence are hypocrites; which are ever existenceipulation devoted things, still without fa ce; so as they essential ineluctably be cauterized in the end. The causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they be m some(prenominal) a(prenominal); for any one master(prenominal) division, addeth readiness to both(prenominal) sides; further some divisions award atheism. other is, scandalization of priests; when it is grapple to that which St. Bernard saith, non est insistency dicere, ut genus Populus specify sacerdos; quia necrotizing enterocolitis dress genus Populus ut sacerdos. A three is, tailored of alloy barrack in saintly matters; which doth, by footling and little, spot the prize of religion. And lastly, wise(p) times, specially with quiet and successfulness; for troubles and adversities do more deflect mens minds to religion. They that deny a God, pulverise valet de chambres nobility; for surely man is of affinity to the beasts, by his personify; and, if he be not of kin group to God, by his spirit, he is a melodic theme and u ntitled creature. It destroys in any case magnanimity, and the rearing of man nature; for take an congresswoman of a dog, and mark what a generousness and endurance he forget put on, when he finds himself maintain by a man; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura; which bravery is simply such, as that creature, without that confidence of a discontinue nature than his own, could never attain. '