72 16. As men who climb a hill behold The substance flee, the shadows chase. But none who have not gained that height Can good and ill discern aright. Celebration. Celebrity. 72 22. Infinite. Innumerable. 72 31. Wrong. Injury. They generate. Cf. Milton's Areopagitica: 'Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.' Still. Ever. 73 6. Some of the philosophers. Bacon is referring here to the doctrine of Aristotle and his followers. Plato had taught the immortality of the individual soul. This Aristotle denied. All the lower functions of the soul, he said, are destroyed by death; but the highest function of the soul, viz., the creative intellect, is indestructible. Therefore though after death the individual ceases to exist, yet the creative intellect is not destroyed, but is resumed into the universal mind' (Selby). 73 12. Affection. Wright thinks the true reading is probably affections; cf. 1. 15. 73 17. 73 19. 73 20. Disclaim in. Abjure. Probation. Proof. In the beginning. Cf. 44 8 ff., 51 14 ff. 73 26. Æsop's cock. Phædrus 3. 12. Bacon adduces it again in Essay 13, and in The True Greatness of Britain. Wright compares Commines, Bk. 5, chap. 2. 73 27. Midas. Ovid, Met. 11. 153 ff. 73 30. Paris. Cf. Euripides, Trojan Women 924 ff., and see Tennyson's Oenone. 73 31. Agrippina. The mother of Nero, Agrippina II, is meant. Tacitus, Annals 14. 9: Occidat dum imperet. On this awful sentence De Quincey remarks (Cæsars, Chap. 5): 'There is a remarkable story told of Agrippina, that, upon some occasions, when a wizard announced to her, as truths which he had read in the heavens, the two fatal necessities impending over her son,—one that he should ascend to empire, the other that he should murder herself, she replied in these stern and memorable words - Occidat dum imperet. Upon which a continental writer comments thus: "Never before or since have three such words issued from the lips of woman"; and in truth, one knows not which most to abominate or admire the aspiring princess or the loving mother. Meantime, in these few words lies naked to the day, in its whole hideous deformity, the very essence of Romanism and the imperatorial power, and one might here consider the mother of Nero as the impersonation of that monstrous condition.' 73 33. Ulysses. Homer, Od. 5. 218; Plutarch, Gryll. 1; Cicero, De Oratore 1. 44. Cf. Essay 8. 74 6. Wisdom is justified of her children. Matt. 11. 19. Agrippina 73 31. Cæsar, see Augustus Cæsar, Julius Cæsar. Agrippa (Herod Agrippa II) 56 28. Cæsars 17 12. Albertus Magnus 35 11. Alexander the Great 11 18, 38 29, 591 ff., 60 10 ff., 61 2 ff., 62 8 ff., Alexander Severus 13 6, 57 20. Antoninus 57 17 ff., 59 35. Apollo 52 7, 54 7, 73 28. Aristotle 11 19, 31 23, 35 16, 37 1 ff., 40 31, 41 8, 59 8 ff., 60 20, 61 3, Artaxerxes 66 2. Ascham 29 21. Atalanta 43 7. Atticus 14 27, 22 12. Cain 46 6. Callisthenes 59 10, 61 7 ff. Caracalla 57 18. Carneades 10 22. Cassander 60 29. Cassius 209. Castor 181. Cato the Censor 10 21, 16 33. Ceres 52 7. Cicero 11 20, 14 26, 17 16, 21 24, Commodus 53 29, 57 18. Constantine the Great 56 2. Craterus 62 7. Cyrus the Younger 66 2 ff., 72 25. Augustus Cæsar 2 23, 57 22, 70 6, Darius 59 18, 62 15. 71 4. Democritus 37 1, 60 20. 143 Demosthenes 16 10, 21 24, 23 3, 29 22. | Julius Cæsar 3 19, 11 19, 199, 227, Diogenes 26 24, 60 4 ff. Diomedes 60 27. 59 2 ff., 62 25, 63 4, 64 20 ff., 65 4 ff., 71 4, 72 25. Dionysius (of Syracuse) 26 30 ff., Junia 20 10. 57 3 ff. Falinus (properly Phalinus) 66 7 ff. Marcus Aurelius (Antoninus) 3 21, Faustina 26 11. Gilbert 41 3. Mercury 52 7. Homer 54 19, 59 16 ff., 60 26, 71 3, Parmenio 61 31, 62 16 ff. Paul 5 14, 7 23, 31 4, 49 18, 56 29. Phalinus, see Falinus. Pharnabazus 21 10. 72 20. Ixion 14 31. |