'And how necessary it is for men to be fully imbued with pious and moral knowledge, before they take any part in politics, we see from this: that they who are brought up from their infancy in the courts of kings, and affairs of state, scarcely ever attain to a deep and sincere honesty of manners. How much less chance have they, then, if to this be added the like discipline in books!' BACON'S De Augmentis, Bk. vii. · Χρήσιμον δὲ πρὸς τὰς νομοθεσίας τὸ μὴ μόνον ἐπαΐειν, τίς πολιτεία συμφέρει, ἐκ τῶν παρεληλυθότων θεωροῦντι͵ ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις εἰδέναι. ARIST. Rhet. |