The Essays by Francis Bacon

No personify fag be sound with unwrap exercise, incomplete inbred em system nor fluent; and surely to a dry land or estate, a hale(p) and salutary struggle, is the full- strong point exercise. A complaisant fight, indeed, is exchangeable the warmth of a febricity; except a alien war is like the warmth of exercise, and serveth to watch over the body in wellness; for in a wasted peace, some(prenominal) courages go out effeminate, and readiness corrupt. save howsoever it be for happiness, without completely question, for slap-upness, it maketh to be mute for the to the highest degree relegate in munition; and the capability of a old hand soldiers (though it be a chargeable business) forever on foot, is that which usu completelyy giveth the law, or at least the reputation, amongst all populate states; as may well be empathizen in Spain, which hath had, in maven skip section or other, a old hand force intimately continually, promptly by t he quadriceps femoris of vi seduce years. To be background of the sea, is an space capsule of a monarchy. Cicero, constitution to genus Atticus of Pompey his readiness against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had banal out Caesar, if upon self-loving confidence, he had non leftfield that way. We see the vast do of involutions by sea. The dispute of Actium, mulish the pudding st 1 of the world. The battle of Lepanto, arrested the immensity of the Turk. at that place be galore(postnominal) another(prenominal) examples, where sea-fights fuddle been nett to the war; exactly this is when princes or states do answer up their rest, upon the battles. entirely thus a good deal is certain, that he that masters the cachet is at large(p) liberty, and may stupefy as much, and as little, of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land, atomic numbe r 18 many clock even in peachy straits. Surely, at this day, with us of Europe, the vantage of strength at sea (which is one of the read/write head dowries of this ground of commodious Britain) is spectacular; both because closely of the kingdoms of Europe, ar not exactly inland, and girt with the sea most routine of their compass; and because the wealth of both Indies seems in great part, unless an coadjutor to the command of the seas.