03.18.07
The Essays: Twentieth Post (Wealth)
Bacon writes about how riches aren’t important, but he seems to have considered them fairly important in his real life. The disconnect that seems to exist between Bacon’s positions in his writing and what he did in his life confuses me. Either he was a real hypocrite or he really believed things that didn’t work in practice. Or maybe he came to believe them over time, thus explaining why his life seems to disagree with his philosophy. Who knows?