Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton.

  • William Wotton
Date:
1697
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Credit: Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afterwards to exprefs his Satisfattion that he has done it. This is not only vifiblein particular Perfons, but inthe feveral Ages of Mankind, (which are only Commu- nities of particular Perfons, living at the fame time, ) as often as their Humours, or their Interefts, lead them to. purfue the fame Methods. ‘This Emulation equally fhews it felf, whatfoever the Subject be, about which it is employed ; whether it be about Matters of Trade, or War, or Learning, it is all-one: One Nation will ftrive to out-do another, and fo will one ' Age too, when feveral Nations agree in the purfuit of the fame Defign; only the Jealoufie is not fo great in. the Conteft for Learning, as it isin that for Riches and Power ; becaufe thefe are Things which enable their Pofleffors to do their Neigh- bours greater mifchief proportionably as they poflefs them, fo that it is impoffible for bordering Nations to fuffer with any patience’ that their Neighbours~fhould crow-as @reat as they in either of them, to their own prejudice ; though they will all agree in raifing the Credit of the Age they live tn upon the Account of thefe Ad- vantages, that being the only Thing where- in their Interefts do perfectly unite. If this Way of Reafoning will hold, it may be asked how it comes to pats, oe the