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OBSTACLES PREJUGES ANTIQUITY
A Man will consume his life in enquiring what the Ancients thought while, by the methodical application pursuit of
one simple and unquestionable luminous principle, he might find what they ought to have
thought.
The Book of Human Nature is open to us at least as wide, as it
was to them.
Take Credit for the existence of inconvenience objections of indefinite force and number upon for this very ground foundation <add>reason</add>
that there are not any to be seen. they cannot see whether there any such or as
"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, [+], says F Bacon, more than to know"
"little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to"
"keep their suspicions in smother." Essay 32. reg diverse intn
[+] viz against a new plan of
Reformation. We may apply the
of F Bacon
Accustomed to confine their motions
within a narrow circle of their
own, they learn fancy that without it
there is nothing - and the whole
of Science is in the Church
which they to themselves in
their imagination, like foreign
nations in a Map
marked on a
in a huddled together
in a corner
To such men every system &
every project plan which has it's Root
out of that a little which behoves to be
the object of jealousy and aversion
Persist in their old
in preference to the new
suspicions.
Le grand defaut de tous caux gouverment, est de s'avoir que des demi-volantes
des demi-moyans — Si Pierre le Grand pas
deux mille livres de pays encore
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Human body
Would send no rather than to view it with Hunter, to dream about is with Hippocrates.
Divines are intended to propagate in others the disposition of to that servile deference to the question
of barbarous ages which they themselves stand engaged to pay
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