104 BACON 



the voice of nature will cry it up, though the voice of man should 

 cry it down ; and as Alexander Borgia was wont to say of the 

 expedition of the French against Naples, that they came with 

 chalk in their hands to mark up their lodgings, and not with 

 weapons to fight, so we prefer that entry of truth which comes 

 peaceably, when the minds of men capable of lodging so great 

 a guest are signed as it were with chalk, than that which comes 

 with pugnacity, and forces its way by contentions and contro- 

 versies. Wherefore, having gone through the two parts of 

 philosophy that relate to God and to Nature, we come to the 

 third, which is man himself. 



