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of Original Sin, as well as if he had<lb/> | of Original Sin, as well as if he had<lb/> | ||
subscribed to the 39 Articles.</p> | subscribed to the 39 Articles.</p> | ||
<p>That we should not fast to read what remains <add>all we have</add><lb/> | |||
of them, because what is lost <add>we can't yet</add> might contain<lb/> | |||
a great deal more than we are aware<lb/> | |||
of.</p> | |||
<p>Because, in a great cases <add>that might be mentioned</add> where there was but<lb/> | |||
a wrong and a right, and the moderns have<lb/> | |||
found means to prove the right, the ancients who<lb/> | |||
had <gap/> guessed the wrong and sometimes<lb/> | |||
the right, had consequently guessed the right: which he calls knowing it: witness this</p> | |||
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Dutens views congenial to my own. That if a man means for example to understand Optics
he may read Newton's book upon
the subject if he has nothing else to do
(for it would be wrong entirely to neglect
the moderns) but that the way to be deep
in it is to read Euclid de Diprice because a certain Archimedes
(as a certain Tzetzes who lived some 800 eight
or ten hundred years after more or less
says in some verses he wrote upon
he had heard) set the Roman Ship's Fleet on
fire at the siege of Syracuse, which by
means of a large of Looking-glasses Glass:, which
seemed so pretty to the Romans besiegers that
they sent their Ships one after another
into the focus, and would not suffer a
stick nor a stone to be flung [till they were
all burnt] for fear of breaking it till it
was put into its case.
That Relation has shown that utility is the
measure of all our sound judgment on
the morality of actions, and ought to be of
all of them: but that the way to come
at the bottom of the matter is to read
because considering that ......... knew
of Original Sin, as well as if he had
subscribed to the 39 Articles.
That we should not fast to read what remains all we have
of them, because what is lost we can't yet might contain
a great deal more than we are aware
of.
Because, in a great cases that might be mentioned where there was but
a wrong and a right, and the moderns have
found means to prove the right, the ancients who
had guessed the wrong and sometimes
the right, had consequently guessed the right: which he calls knowing it: witness this
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