HOW TO CONTROL THE MASSES
"The use of this feigned history hath been to give
some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man ...
Therefore, because the acts or events of true history
have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man,
poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical...
because true history representeth actions and events more
ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth
them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative
variations ...
because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the
shows of things
to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and
bow the mind into
the nature (reality) of things."
FRANCIS BACON
Reality As Poesy