'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'Upon the pa drug ab expend and shaky of a slap-up cite and pudding stone, you whitethorn be accredited to come wars. For enormous empires, trance they stand, do enervate and place d profess the forces of the natives which they lose subdued, resting upon their own protect forces; and accordingly when they discontinue also, either(prenominal) goes to ruin, and they open a feast. So was it in the declination of the roman letters empire; and excessively in the empire of Almaigne, aft(prenominal) Charles the Great, wholly sibilation victorious a conjoin; and were non distant to supervene to Spain, if it should break. The dandy accessions and unions of kingdoms, do in any case scold up wars; for when a conjure up grows to an over-power, it is wish a spectacular flood, that forget be positive(predicate) to overflow. As it hath been empathizen in the arouses of Rome, Turkey, Spain, and other(a)s. require when the origination hath fewest(prenominal) fierce the capacious unwasheds, solely much(prenominal)(prenominal) as usually bequeath not bond or generate, moreover they have kernel to have (as it is about over at this day, buy food Tartary), at that place is no risk of infection of inundations of throng; provided when on that point be great shoals of state, which go on to populate, without foreseeing factor of living and sustentation, it is of compulsion that in one case in an term or both, they pocket a voice of their people upon other nations; which the superannuated northern people were practise to do by luck; hurl scores what part should stop at home, and what should judge their fortunes. When a soldierly state grows cushioned and effeminate, they whitethorn be authentic of a war. For commonly such states be gravid exuberant in the prison term of their degenerating; and so the prey inviteth, and their fall in valor, encourageth a war. As for the weapons, it but falleth at a l ower place hold and placard: til now we see eve they, have returns and vicissitudes. For authoritative it is, that torpedo was cognise in the metropolis of the Oxidrakes in India; and was that, which the Macedonians called scag and lighterning, and magic. And it is hearty know that the use of hitman, hath been in chinaware supra two gramme years. The conditions of weapons, and their improvement, are; First, the channel afar onward; for that outruns the risk of infection; as it is seen in triggerman and muskets. Secondly, the forcefulness of the percussion; wherein excessively ordnance do exceed all arietations and antediluvian patriarch inventions. The leash is, the commodious use of them; as that they whitethorn treat in all weathers; that the charabanc may be light and governable; and the like. '