Author: Francis Bacon

Excerpt from the original text: Reading is pleasant enough, colorful enough and brilliant enough. When you are isolated from the world alone, its happiness is also the most obvious; Its welfare lottery is also the most common talk; Its talents are also the most common in judging things in life. Although sophisticated people can handle the details separately, or distinguish the details one by one, it is those who are eager to learn and think deeply about the overall situation.

Too much reading time is easy to be lazy, and there are too many literary talents and decorations. Judging things completely according to the provisions is a pedant's state. Reading makes up for the deficiency of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiency of reading. Natural talent is like natural flowers and plants. After reading it, you will know how to trim and transplant.

As the book shows, if you don't imitate experience, it will be too big and useless. Cunning people despise reading, ignorant people admire reading, and only smart people use reading. However, the book does not tell people its usefulness. The wisdom of using books is not in the book, but outside the book, all by observation.

Talking about Reading uses metaphor, comparison, parallelism and other methods to discuss the correct purpose, method and important role of reading, and guide people to improve themselves through serious reading.

Bacon is a famous essayist, and his prose has a great influence on Britain and even the world. Bacon's prose is plain and fluent in style, flexible in brushwork and alert in language. The full text is like a dialogue, with pertinence. He is a man of insight and worldly wisdom, and earnestly warns the world.

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In terms of the significance and function of reading, Bacon has a very incisive exposition: "Reading is enough to make people happy, to enrich people's colors and to increase people's talents. When you are isolated from the world alone, its happiness is also the most obvious; Its welfare lottery is also the most talked about.

Its talents are also the most common in judging things in life. "Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people grave, logic and rhetoric make people distinguish, and what they have learned becomes character."

Bacon said: "Human nature is like wild flowers and weeds, and reading is like pruning and transplanting." A person who studies blindly without goals and priorities will eventually become a slave to books. "

Bacon pays attention to the combination of theory and practice in reading methods. "The method is out of the book. This is a skill that cannot be learned without experiment. " Bacon said: "Some books only need to read part of them, some books only need to know the outline, and some good books need to be read repeatedly."

Bacon's On Reading expounds the significance, function and methods of reading in detail. Today, both learning and mastering modern advanced science and technology are worth learning from. I want to love reading and know how to read, so that I can read well and learn knowledge well.

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