Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / By William Wotton, B. B.

  • William Wotton
Date:
1694
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Credit: Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / By William Wotton, B. B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I I* t $ Ancient and Modem Learning. %»*'** J * formances in Matters of Learning of a- ny fort. It will however be fome Satisfa&ion to thole who are concerned for the Glory of the Age in which they live, if, in the firffc place, it can be proved. That as there are fome parts of real and iilefui Knowledge, wherein not only great Stri&nels of Rea- foning, but Force and Excent of Thought is required thoroughly to comprehend what is already invented, much more to make any confiderable Improvements, fb that there can be no Difpute of the Strength of fuch Men’s Underftandings, who are able to make fuch Improvements; lo in thole very Things, fuch, and fb great Di£ coveries have been made, as will oblige impartial Judges to acknowledge, that there is no probability that the World de¬ cays in Vigour and Strength, if ( accor¬ ding to Sir Willi tun Temple's Hypdthefis) we take ourEftimate from the Meafure of thofe Men’s Parts, who have made thefe Advancements in thefe later Years; specially, if it fhould be found that the Ancients took a great deal of pains upon thefe very Subjects, and had able Mafters to inftruft them at their firft fetting out z And Secondly, If it fhould be proved, that there are other curious and ufeful »-v farts of Knowledge, wherein the An- J } l - dents
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