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Calculated to make people fancy they know,
when they know nothing.
It is very fine and very specious, carrying
the appearance of the more depth
from its utter profound darkness.
So was the learning or rather laboured ignorance of Scot and Ramus:
it was set more store by it got the possessors the titles of
and irrefragable: it it got them more reputation, & was set more store
by, than any now that is most as if :
the only test of it's worthlessness (and sad lamentable it were if there were no test whereby at last it might be distinguished from what is valuable) that when applied
to practise it was found to be of no use, or
or worse than none.
Thus it is with our Author: when he breakes
out of utter darkness, it is only to wander
into error. In general you cannot understand
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him: tho' his words run so smoothly upon the
ear, without any thing to it by
disgust, that your not understanding him
is more than without an attention not common
you are able to perceive: but when
you do, you then may see that he is wrong.
Wrong, it will be seen, not in trivial matters
merely: but in matters that are of
the first importance, either immediately
in practise, or midiately by concerning a
theory that has aninfluences on practise. Wrong
either by immediately recommending a conduct
that is pernicious: or by impeding that attainment the attainment
of that knowledge which may lead to
the discovery of what is useful
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