39. And although they be various and manifold, yet we will treat of some that require the greatest caution, and exert the greatest power in polluting the understanding. Nor can we imagine how eternity has flowed on down to the present day, since the usually received distinction of an infinity, a parte ante and a parte post, cannot hold good: for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and also that infinity is wasting away and tending to an end. Civil reformation seldom is carried on witbout violence and confusion, whilst inventions are a blessing and a benefit, without injuring or afflicting any. Balestri Giacomo Collezionismo - Filatelia, Numismatica, Cartoline e Libri D'Epoca. The school of Plato introduced skepticism, first, as it were, in joke and irony, from their dislike [Page 353] to Protagoras, Hippias, and others, who were ashamed of appearing not to doubt upon any subject. With regard to the supposition that there is a general unanimity as to the philosophy of Aristotle, because the other systems of the ancients ceased and became obsolete on its promulgation, and nothing better has been since discovered; whence it appears that it is so well determined and founded as to have united the suffrages of both ages; we will observe--1st. It is well known that after the Christian religion had been acknowledged and arrived at maturity, by far the best wits were busied upon theology, where the highest rewards offered themselves, and every species of assistance was abundantly supplied, and the study of which was the principal occupation of the western European nations during the third epoch; the rather because literature flourished about the very time when controversies concerning religion first began to bud forth. 54. 40. To speak plainly, no correct judgment can be formed, either of our method, or its discoveries, by those anticipations which are now in common use; for it is not to be required of us to submit ourselves to the judgment of the very method we ourselves arraign. Those who become practically versed in nature, are the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchymist, and the magician; but all (as matters now stand) with faint efforts and meagre success. 0000001261 00000 n If any one then imagine such matters to be of no use, he might equally suppose light to be of no use, because it is neither solid nor material. The majority, so far from proposing to themselves the augmentation of the mass of arts and sciences, make no other use of an inquiry into the mass already before them, than is afforded by the conversion of it to some use in their lectures, or to gain, or to the acquirement of a name and the like. 30. For, we allow that the ancients had a particular form of investigation and discovery, and their writings show it. For they certainly have this in common with children, that they are prone to talking and incapable of generation, their wisdom being loquacious, and unproductive of effects. Mauro, Verbantiqua di Fortunati Lorenzo, Via di Gabbiano, 3, Antiche Carte Antichità Il Tarlo di Annalisa Fava. Words are generally formed in a popular sense, and define things by those broad lines which are most obvious to the vulgar mind; but when a more acute understanding, or more diligent observation is anxious to vary those lines, and to adapt them more accurately to nature, words oppose it. Nothing is rightly inquired into, or verified, noted, weighed, or measured, in natural history. - Bacone, Francesco - Scelta di passi nel testo latino, con la versione italiana ed una introduzione per l’uso della scuola. 108. Chiama il numero: We have good reason, therefore, to derive hope from a closer and purer alliance of these faculties, (the experimental and rational) than has yet been attempted.

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