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submission is wise, and is an honour to them. But it is a device 

 of the Evil One to lead us into sin, to make us venerate impostors 

 as if they were wise. 



1. 19. have a superiority in the faith and conscience, control 

 men's beliefs, and determine their ideas of right and \vrong. 



1. 20. great, qualifies ' pleasure,' in 1. 17. 



1. 23. revelation, the name of the last book of the Christian 

 Scriptures. 



1. 30. as, that. Learning is not so liberal to states, that it 

 has nothing left for individuals. 



Page 65, 1. 1. descent, hereditary right, carried away, ob 

 tained. The traditional authority of the Brahman caste is a good 

 illustration of Bacon's remark. 



1. G. so exceed... as much as, i.e., exceed as much as. The 

 superiority of a victory to a dinner is the measure of the superiority 

 of the pleasures of the affections to those of sense. 



1. 8. of consequence, consequently. The pleasures of the 

 intellect are as far above those of the affections as the latter are 

 above those of sense. 



1. 10. By the affections are meant the emotions and desires 

 distinct from the bodily appetites. 



1. 11. after they be used, when we have experienced them for 

 some time, verdure, freshness. 



1. 12. deceits of pleasure, unreal pleasures. 



1. 15. ambitious princes, etc., Alexander sighed for new worlds 

 to conquer : and Charles V. resigned the crown of Spain to his 

 son and retired into a monastery. Cf. Exsay xix. : " We see also 

 that kings that have been fortunate conquerors in their first 

 years, it being not possible for them to go forward infinitely, but 

 that they must have some check or arrest in their fortunes, turn 

 in their latter years to be superstitious and melancholy, as did 

 Alexander the Great, Dioclesian, and, in our memory, Charles 

 the Fifth : and others. For he that is used to go forward, and 

 findeth a stop, falleth out of his own favour, and is not the thing 

 he was." 



1. 16. satisfaction, full enjoyment. They never pall : however 

 much we have of knowledge, we still wish for more. 



1. 21. Lucretius, a Roman poet, born about B.c. 95. He wrote 

 a poem ' On the Nature of Things,' expounding and defending 

 the atomistic philosophy. Cf. Essay i. The same idea is 

 expressed in the Mahabharata ; 



" As men who climb a hill behold 

 The plain beneath them all unrolled, 

 And thence with searching eye survey 



