培根隨筆集

內(nèi)容概要

　　STUDIES SERVE for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Theirchief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for
ornament,lis indiscourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and
disposition of businessIf his wit be not apt to distinguish or find
differences, let him study theSchoolmen; for they are cymini
sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters,and to call up one
thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study thelawyers'
cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.

作者簡(jiǎn)介

培根(FRANCIS BAC0N)，1561～1626，英國(guó)著名的唯物主義哲學(xué)家、科學(xué)家和教育家。1597年，《培根論人生》在英國(guó)首版后，即以文筆優(yōu)美、語句簡(jiǎn)潔、趣味雋永、格言精妙而大受歡迎，多次再版重印，歷四百多年而未衰，被譯成世界上幾乎所有文字。2000年還被美國(guó)公眾評(píng)選為最受喜愛的十本著作之一。它與《蒙田隨筆集》、《帕斯卡爾思想錄》一起，被人們譽(yù)為歐洲近代哲理散文三大經(jīng)典。

書籍目錄

THE LIFE OF FRANCIS BACON
PROLOGUE
PREFACE
OF TRUTH
OF DEATH
OF UNITY IN RELIGION
OF REVENGE
OF ADVERSITY
OF SIMULATION AND
DISSIMULATION
OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN
OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE
OF ENVY
OF LOVE
OF GREAT PLACE
OF BOLDNESS
OF GOODNESS AND GOODNESS
OF NATURE
OF NOBILITY
……

章節(jié)摘錄

　　Neither is that state (which, for any tlung I know, is almost peculiar to England, and hardly to be found anywhere else, except it be perhaps in Poland) to be passed over; I mean the state of free servants, and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen; which are no ways inferior unto the yeomanry for arms. And therefore out of all questions, the splendor and magruficence, and great retinues and hospitality, of noblemen and gentlemen, received into custom, doth much conduce unto marhal greatness. Whereas, contrariwise, the close and reserved living of noblemen and gentlemen, causeth a penury of military forces.　　By all means it is to be procured, that the trunk of Nebuchadnezzar's tree of monarchy, be great enough to bear　the branches and the boughs; that is, that the natural subjects of the crown or state, bear a suffiaent proporhon to the stranger　subjects, that they govem. Therefore all states that are liberal of naturalizahon 1:owards strangers are fit for empire. For to think that an handful of people can, with the greatest courage and policy in the world, embrace too large extent of dominion, it　may hold for a time, but it will fail suddenly. The Spartans were a nice people in point of naturalization; whereby, while they kept their compass, they stood firm; but when they did spread, and their boughs were becomen too great for their stem, they became a windfall, upon the sudden. Never any state was in this point so open to receive strangers into their body, as were the Romans. Therefore it sorted with them accordingly; for they grew to the greatest monarchy. Their manner was to grant　naturalization (which they called jus civitatis), and to grant it in the highest degree; that is, not only jus commercii, jus connubii, jus haereditatis; but also jus suffragii, and jus honorum. And this not to singular persons alone, but likewise to whole families; yea to cities, and sometimes to nations. Add to this their custom of plantation of colonies; whereby the Roman plant was removed into the soil of other nations. And puthng both constitutions together, you will say that it was not the Romans that spread upon the world, but it was the world that spread upon the Romans; and that was the sure way of greatness.　　I have marvelled, sometimes, at Spain, how they clasp and contain so large dominions, with so few natural Spaniards; but sure the whole compass of Spain, is a very great body of a tree; far above Rome and Sparta at the first. And besides, though they have not had that usage, to naturalize liberally, yet they have that which is next to it; that is, to employ, almost indifferently, all nations in their militia of ordinary soldiers; yea, and sometimes in their highest commands. Nay,it seemeth at this instant they are sensible, of this want of natives; as by the Ptagmatical Sanction, now published, appeareth.　　It is certain that sedentary, and witlun-door arts, and delicate manufactures (that require rather the finger than the arm), have,in their nature, a contrariety to a nulitary disposition. And generally, all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. Neither must they be too much broken of it, if they shall be preserved in vigor.　　……

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