ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses works of Francis Bacon, and focuses on death during war time of World War I. The Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death, and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful. Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark; and that natural fear in children is increased with tales. Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carries the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Adversity was a high speech of Seneca, that good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
