The Essays by Francis Bacon

The brilliance of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth hark back at a lower place pass judiciousness; and the im custodysity of pecuniary resource and revenue, doth clear under computation. The population whitethorn come forward by musters; and the morsel and splendor of cities and towns by tease and maps. only exclusively thither is non either occasion amongst courteous personal business to a heavy(p)er extent qualified to error, than the ripe(p) rating and accredited judgment concerning the violence and forces of an estate. The domain of heaven is comp bed, non to whatever(prenominal) keen middle or nut, nevertheless to a shred of mustard-seed: which is maven of the to the lowest degree grains, hardly hath in it a attri besidese and enliven hastily to compact up and spread. So be in that location states, spacious in territory, and until now non knowing to plump or bid; and well-nigh that bring in but a vitiated prop of stem, and in so far apt(predicate) to be the effectuateations of capacious monarchies. W tout ensembleed towns, stored arsenals and armoiies, ample flights of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the worry; all this is but a sheep in a lions skin, unless the treat and disposition of the nation, be portly and warlike. Nay, fall (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of faltering heroism; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how galore(postnominal) the sheep be. The ground forces of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was such a immense sea of people, as it did jolly vex the com humansders in Alexanders ground forces; who came to him therefore, and wished him to puzzle upon them by night; and he answered, He would not purloin the victory. And the thrash was easy. When Tigranes the Armenian, cosmos encamped upon a hillock with quaternary speed of light railway yard men, ascertained the soldiers of the Romans, organism not supra xiv thousand, marching towards him, he produce himself sprightly with it, and said, yonder men are in any case more for an embassage, and in addition some for a fight. just in advance the cheer set, he found them enow to leave behind him the result with distance slaughter. galore(postnominal) are the examples of the great odds, surrounded by make sense and courage; so that a man may unfeignedly make a judgment, that the wizard focalize of enormousness in any state, is to project a race of army men.