The ring brings trouble with it as its power corrupts the one who owns it.
It corrupts an insignificant labor aristocracy with a few sops and keeps the great masses in subjection by blood and iron.
The philosophies which are " redargued " are divided into three classes, the sophistical, of which the best example is Aristotle, who, according to Bacon, forces nature into his abstract schemata and thinks to explain by definitions; the empirical, which from few and limited experiments leaps at once to general conclusions; and the superstitious, which corrupts philosophy by the introduction of poetical and theological notions.
