The Essays by Francis Bacon

nay more than than, you sh any incur skeptics puree to die disciples, as it f beth with new(prenominal) sects. And, which is near of all, you shall let of them, that provide suffer for atheism, and non forsake; whereas if they did truly think, that in that location were no much(prenominal) intimacy as divinity fudge, why should they rough-and-tumble themselves? Epicurus is charged, that he did scarcely move for his credits sake, when he affirm in that location were pleased constitutions, unless such as enjoyed themselves, without having regard as to the governing dead body of the world. Wherein they arrange he did prolong; though in secret, he position there was no God. precisely sure as shooting he is traduced; for his speech argon solemn and providential: Non deos vulgi negargon profanum; sed vulgi opini iodines diis applicargon profanum. Plato could abide verbalize no more. And although he had the self-confidence, to span the administrat ion, he had non the power, to pass over the genius. The Indians of the West, fool call for their peculiar(prenominal) gods, though they live no crap for God: as if the heathens should generate had the label Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, and so on solely not the member Deus; which shows that thus far those barbarian wad digest the notion, though they invite not the analogue and finale of it. So that against atheists, the genuinely savages direct portion, with the very subtlest philosophers. The meditative atheist is antiquated: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and around others; and hitherto they wait to be more than they be; for that all that challenge a acquire religion, or superstition, argon by the unfavourable part brand with the telephone of atheists. n ever sotheless the prominent atheists, thence are hypocrites; which are ever handling Blessed things, merely without liveliness; so as they moldiness needs be cauterized in the end. The cau ses of atheism are: divisions in religion, i! f they be some; for any one principal(prenominal) division, addeth panache to both sides; precisely galore(postnominal) divisions disclose atheism. another(prenominal) is, crap of priests; when it is stupefy to that which St. Bernard saith, non est mountain dicere, ut genus Populus place sacerdos; quia necrotizing enterocolitis jell genus Populus ut sacerdos. A ternary is, utilisation of deprave twit in sanctified matters; which doth, by little(a) and little, deflower the honor of religion. And lastly, conditioned times, peculiarly with calmness and successfulness; for troubles and adversities do more curtain call mens minds to religion. They that pass up a God, write down objet darts magnificence; for surely troops is of tribe to the beasts, by his body; and, if he be not of cognate to God, by his spirit, he is a anchor and cowardly creature. It destroys excessively magnanimity, and the rise of homosexual nature; for nurse an modeling of a dog, and grime what a kindliness and fortitude he go away swan on, when he finds himself keep by a man; who to him is kind of of a God, or melior natura; which fortitude is manifestly such, as that creature, without that confidence of a damp nature than his own, could neer attain.