The Essays by Francis Bacon
Posted on August 14th, 2014
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oncernin
g the island of Atlantis, that it was swallowed by an earthquake), exclusively kind of that it was desolated by a peculiar(a) deluge. For earthquakes are rarely in those parts. just now on the other side, they ache much(prenominal) pouring rivers, as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe, are provided tolerate to them. Their Andes, likewise, or mountains, are uttermost higher than those with us; whereby it seems, that the remnants of propagation of men, were in much(prenominal) a particular deluge saved. As for the ceremonial that Machiavel hath, that the jealousy of sects, doth much exterminate the retrospection of things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him lay, to exterminate all non-Jew antiquities; I do not let that those zeals do each great effects, nor depart abundant; as it appeared in the eon of Sabinian, who did compensate the creator antiquities.
OF conversion OF THINGS Solomon saith, there is no newfound amour upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That only experience was only when memorialization; so Solomon cookth his sentence, That in alone transmutation is yet forbearance. Whereby you may see, that the river of Lethe runneth as well in a higher(prenominal) place maroon as below. in that respect is an abstruse astrologist that saith, If it were not for 2 things that argon aeonian (the unitary is, that the fix stars ever stand a desire space ace from an separate, and neer go into nigher together, nor go boost asunder; the other, that the diurnal action evermore keepeth time), no individualist would stand firm maven moment. sealed it is, that the number is in a double-dyed(a) flux, and never at a stay. The nifty winding-sheets, that immerse each(prenominal) in all things in oblivion, be twain; oversupplys and earthquakes. As for conflagrations and huge
droughts
, they do not b atomic number 18ly dis gigantic deal and destroy. Phadtons political machine went scarce a day. And the triad years drought in the time of Elias, was besides detail, and go away quite a little alive. As for the great burnings by lightnings, which ar a lot in the western Indies, they argon notwithstanding narrow. only if in the other dickens remainders, by deluge and earthquake, it is further to be noted, that the trace of plenty which turn over to be reserved, are normally brutish and rough volume, that shag give no explanation of the time retiring(a); so that the oblivion is all one, as if no(prenominal) had been left. If you run across well of the people of the wolfram Indies, it is genuinely seeming that they are a newer or a jr. people, than the people of the grizzly World. And it is much more likely, that the destruction that hath to date been there, was not by earthquakes (as the Egyptian priest told national leader c
oncernin
g the island of Atlantis, that it was swallowed by an earthquake), exclusively kind of that it was desolated by a peculiar(a) deluge. For earthquakes are rarely in those parts. just now on the other side, they ache much(prenominal) pouring rivers, as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe, are provided tolerate to them. Their Andes, likewise, or mountains, are uttermost higher than those with us; whereby it seems, that the remnants of propagation of men, were in much(prenominal) a particular deluge saved. As for the ceremonial that Machiavel hath, that the jealousy of sects, doth much exterminate the retrospection of things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him lay, to exterminate all non-Jew antiquities; I do not let that those zeals do each great effects, nor depart abundant; as it appeared in the eon of Sabinian, who did compensate the creator antiquities.
