{"date":"June 27","id":"06-27","intro":["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."],"minutes":9,"readings":[{"author":"Francis Bacon","end":26,"start":22,"volume":3,"work":"Essays"}],"slug":"june-27","status":"proofread","title":"Do You Take Poison Daily?","url":"/harvard-classics/june-27/","words":1729}