Essays (Of Envy), Francis Bacon

<p>There is a human trait most poisonous to a man's blood. Man seeks to avoid it because he knows that it lies like a curse upon him. Just what is the poisonous human failing? Who are most subject to it? Bacon tells you in one of his best essays. (Volume 3, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>Francis Bacon enrolled at Cambridge University, June 27, 1576.</p>