The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin.

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
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Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF T FI E WORLD. 17 1 '' rV‘ . Then what are we to think of thofe Eu¬ ropeans with whom modern annals have made us acquainted ? How limited have been their knowledge and underftandings ? How inexpreffibly abfurd the barbarous im- prefilons that they have received! In fhort, trivial circumitances alone have turned their eyes and undiftinguifhing credulity to chan¬ nels, from whence nothing fatisfaclory can pofubly be derived. ' ’ ‘ , ~ , » 1 * The Chinefe, who have long been efta- blifhed in a beautiful and regular fociety, have records of that ancient date, which ought to have daggered fuch prevailing and fuch ill- grounded judgments. Many of their ac¬ counts, indeed, would appear to extend (as it has been repeatedly fuggefted) to an antiquity altogether unfathomable. / 1 Yet though the Chinefe may feem to have the mod: undifputed claim to this remote re¬ finement, recent obfervations, and thofe of a nature the mod truly authentic, have ftrongly attradled didinguifhed and merited attention to other Eaftern nations. Writers of credit C and
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