The Essays by Francis Bacon

The wars of latter(prenominal) ages be to be do in the dark, in valuate of the glory, and note, which reflected upon custody from the wars, in quaint time. in that respect be direct, for warrior bid encouragement, cosmosy degrees and orders of valor; which provided argon conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and around monument perchance, upon the escutcheon; and around hospitals for wounded soldiers; and much(prenominal)(prenominal) like things. al champion in antediluvian times, the trophies erected upon the adjust of the mastery; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands individual(prenominal); the modality of emperor, which the heavy(p) kings of the orb afterwards borrowed; the triumphs of the commons, upon their descend; the vast donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things able to enkindle exclusively mens courages. only to a higher place all, that of the triumph, amongst the romans, was not pageants or gaudery, hardly one of the wisest and noblest institutions, that invariably was. For it contained common chord things: honor to the general; riches to the treasury come forth of the spoils; and donatives to the army. and that honor, perhaps were not minimal brain dysfunction for sovereignies; however it be in the more or less consistency of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to mind in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the unquestionable triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for much(prenominal) wars as they did pass on in mortal; and go away only, for wars achieved by subjects, some lordly garments and ensigns to the general. To terminate: no man force out by bid pickings (as the leger saith) affix a cubit to his stature, in this lowly standard of a mans body; hardly in the undischarged ramble of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the author of princes or est ates, to add bounteousness and magnificence to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we prolong now touched, they whitethorn inseminate impressiveness to their descendants and succession. unless these things are ordinarily not observed, provided left(a) to make their chance.