培根散文隨筆集第17章：Of Superstition 論迷信（中英對照）
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17 of superstition 論迷信
it were better to have no opinion of god at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him: for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely:and certainly superstition is the reproach of the deity. plutarch saith well to that purpose: surely (saith he) i had rather, a great deal, men should say, there was no such man at all as plutarch; than that they should say, that there was one plutarch, that would eat his children, as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of saturn.
關于神、寧可毫無意見，也比有意見而這種意見是與神不稱的好。因為前者是不信而后者是侮辱也，迷信則的確是侮辱神明的。關于這一點普盧塔克說得很好。他說：“我寧愿人家說從沒有過普盧塔克這么一個人，而不愿人家說從前有一個普盧塔克，他底兒女一生下來他就要把他們吃了。”
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