Francis Bacon — from The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625), the last edition in Bacon’s lifetime.
The five of Bacon’s fifty-eight Essays or Counsels whose subject is religion, from the final edition of 1625: on truth, where Pilate jests and would not stay for an answer; on death; on the unity of the church, and when zeal becomes a scandal; on atheism, where a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion; and on superstition, which Bacon thought worse than unbelief.
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