FRANCIS BACON 19 



latent process, and latent conformations, and the other matters, which 

 we have enumerated in their order in the twenty-first aphorism, in 

 order that, like good and faithful guardians, we may yield up their 

 fortune to mankind upon the emancipation and majority of their 

 understanding; from which must necessarily follow an improvement 

 of their estate, and an increase of their power over nature. For man, 

 by the fall, lost at once his state of innocence, and his empire over 

 creation, both of which can be partially recovered even in this life, 

 the first by religion and faith, the second by the arts and sciences. 

 For creation did not become entirely and utterly rebellious by the 

 curse, but in consequence of the Divine decree, "in the sweat of thy 

 brow shalt thou eat bread," she is compelled by our labors (not 

 assuredly by our disputes or magical ceremonies), at length, to afford 

 mankind in some degree his bread, that is to say, to supply man's 

 daily wants. 



