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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of Passions, that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to Verity.

— Joseph Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

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The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.

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Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

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The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis.

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For Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need of a dose of Hellebore.

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The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties.

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