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PAGE PAGE 1 Of Studies Of Studies从读书之功用立论，分析了读书学习对人生不同凡响的意义。同时人们对读书学习态度之取向、方法之别异，也直接影响到了学习效果的泾渭两色。培根以为读书的功用有三，即Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability。其在人生中的具体体现亦有三，即 Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.  在作者看来，人们的经验与学识，亦直接影响其读书之取向与效用。具体说来，就是expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. 由于方法之不同，学习之效果也将各异。所以培根说，To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. 这个说法颇似孟子“仅信书则不如无书”之教诲。  读书不能全凭经验判理，而学识亦不可脱离实际独存。经验与学识，当是相辅相成的、彼此互补的。在培根看来，这两方面的积累是人生所不可或缺的知识积淀。所以，They perfect nature and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.  而对读书态度之不同，亦决定读书者获益之众寡。常见的现象是，Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. 读书不求学问长进，而是存心吹毛求疵诘难作者，以显其能。这是另外一种庸人读书心态。怀着此种心态读书，焉能从中获益！所以培根告诫学人，Read not to contradict and confuse; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.  在前苏联电影《列宁在1918》中，有这样一个情节：列宁为了躲避密探的追捕，隐蔽朋友瓦西里家里。晚上，列宁将瓦西里给他搬来的书分作两类，并告诉瓦西里哪些书可以枕头，哪些书应当垫脚。所谓枕头的书，就是需要认真拜读、仔细品味、努力思考的佳作。所谓垫脚的书，就是那些文风浮浅、思想轻浅、论述表浅的平庸之作。培根对书的认识与列宁的看法，可谓所见不差。所以他说，Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be ready wholly, and with diligence and attention.  读书的方法，自然涵盖对所读之书的选择和所读内容的鉴赏这两个方面。然而，在一定意义上，读书的方法还包括所谓之“不读之读”。“不读之读”，即由于种种原因，读者