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Yet Nothing can be idler than the appeal to antiquity as
Authority. In the midst of some truth there are a thousand
falacies. The light to be found shines by contrast with surrounding
darkness. Of all instruments of delusion condition has been frequently
made one of the most baneful. This, not language was hex –
such persons who possessed by disus self-stiled philosophies. What then?
For if from their opinions language no practical conclusion can be drawn
is there value? Men there are whose preaching comes to this.
So no other. Read modern books less and ancient more. Go for
the moral sciences to Aristotle, to Plato. For Metaphysics,
not to Locke, but still to Aristotle. For botany, not to Linnæus,
but to Theophrastus – To Elian.

Tis precisely the way to talk of every thing and know nothing.
To be as much farther from knowledge have a child who cannot in almost every science
tell his letters, as a child who cannot tell his Letters is from the
most intelligent professor.

Life is not long enough to store the mind with the facts
that form the stock of the several sciences, were no proposition
presented but what were are true and those dressed in their closest
garb. And this man Yet many men would send us to rake in books in
which, for ten propositions evidently false, and ten times the number
of unintelligible ones you will scarce find a single one that is true,
and that dished out over and over again in the meanest modern
compilation on the subject you can lay your hands on: among
which you may turn over whole volumes without finding a single

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