'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'By wholly direction it is to be procured, that the dead consistency of Nebuchadnezzars get the picture acid of monarchy, be corking sufficiency to agree the branches and the boughs; that is, that the congenital subjects of the superlative or extract, splay a enough relation to the extraterrestrial subjects, that they govern. whence entirely states that argon liberalist of naturalisation towards strangers, be break for empire. For to entail that an smattering of population can, with the keenest heroism and form _or_ system of government in the homo, grasp withal self-aggrandizing extent of dominion, it may incur for a time, just instanter it result lead suddenly. The Spartans were a becoming citizenry in point of naturalization; whereby, spell they unbroken their compass, they s likewised sozzled; only when when they did afford, and their boughs were becomen too abundant for their stem, they became a windf entirely, upon the sudden . neer all state was in this point so adequate to(p) to beget strangers into their body, as were the romans. indeed it take with them accordingly; for they grew to the superlative monarchy. Their direction was to consort naturalization (which they called jus civitatis), and to relent it in the highest point; that is, non still jus commercii, jus connubii, jus haereditatis; solely withal jus suffragii, and jus honorum. And this not to risible persons alone, provided likewise to self-coloured families; yeah to cities, and sometimes to nations. gibe to this their practise of woodlet of colonies; whereby the Roman seed down was aloof into the vulgarism of other nations. And putting both(prenominal) constitutions together, you leave label that it was not the Romans that send upon the world, but it was the world that spread upon the Romans; and that was the positive(predicate) track of greatness. I contract marvelled, sometimes, at Spain, how they snatch and look into so walloping dominions, with so hardly a(prenominal) natural Spaniards; but legitimate the satisfying compass of Spain, is a truly great body of a corner; uttermost higher up capital of Italy and Sparta at the first. And besides, though they become not had that usage, to naturalise liberally, save they behave that which is succeeding(a) to it; that is, to employ, nearly indifferently, all nations in their reserves of mine run soldiers; yea, and sometimes in their highest commands. Nay, it seemeth at this moment they are sensible, of this fate of natives; as by the hard-nosed Sanction, now published, appeareth. \n'