From Francis Bacon's essay *Of Adversity* (1625). Select the word that fits the blank. "It is true greatness, to have in one the ______ of a man, and the security of a God."

Bacon is paraphrasing a Stoic ideal ("the manner of the Stoics") and offering a translation of Seneca's Latin (*Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei*). The Latin *fragilitatem* gives the English directly: **frailty**. Even without the Latin, the structure forces the answer. The sentence pairs *man* with *God* and *______* with *security*. For the contrast to bite, the human side must name a *weakness* against which God's security stands. Frailty supplies that. - "Dominion" is a strength, not a weakness — it would collapse the man/God contrast. - "Ambition" is a passion, not a structural human limitation. - "Solitude" is a circumstance, not a feature contrasted with divine security.