Of Studies

I thought this quote was the most significant because I believe that it has an important meaning behind it. While reading and studying are important, it is also crucial that we know exactly what information to understand and use. Some books are just meant to be "tasted" or skimmed through to see the idea (Horton 289). Other books are essential to understand and teach significant information that is applicable to life or "chewed and digested" (Horton 289). Sir Francis Bacon uses the words "tasted", "swallowed", and "chewed and digested" to show the different levels of books, from ones that should be taken lightly, to ones that must be taken seriously (Horton 289). Some books may be bad and have little pertinence, while books that contain wise knowledge and advice should be taken into consideration and clearly understood. For example, I would probably find a comic book interesting, but overall it has little importance to my knowledge and pertains little to my life, while a book on Biblical responses to current ethical situations might be extremely important and useful to me. So, the book I would choose to comprehend thoroughly and focus studying on would be the ethical book rather than the comic book. 

Works Cited

Bacon, Francis. "Of Studies." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 289. Print