Bacon's Wisdom Records

Author: Zhang Xiuzhang, Xie Ligu selected and compiled
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Publishing Date: 2003-03-01
Features: Natural talent is like a natural plant, needing education to prune it. If you hand over the right to think to others, you will not go your own way! Another kind of illusion is formed by the interaction and connection between people, which I call the market illusion, taking the meaning of people's exchanges in the market. People connect through conversation; the language used is based on the understanding of ordinary people. Therefore, choosing inappropriate words with ill intent astonishingly hinders understanding. The definitions or annotations that educated people are accustomed to using to protect themselves in certain matters cannot in the slightest correct the situation. Yet, language still forces and dominates understanding, causing confusion and leading people into countless empty debates and pointless fantasies.
Human understanding, by its nature, tends to assume that the order and regularity in the world are greater than what is actually seen. Although many things in nature are solitary and unpaired, human understanding often invents parallel, connected, and related things that do not actually exist. As a result, people have fabricated the idea that all celestial bodies move in circular orbits, completely rejecting the concepts of spirals and wavy paths. As a result, people have brought in the element of "fire" along with its circle to match the four elements perceived by the senses, forcing them together into a set of four. As a result, people have also arbitrarily imposed a density ratio of ten to one on these so-called elements. There are many other such delusions. These fantasies not only affect dogmas but also simple concepts.