Plus ultra: or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning / [Joseph Glanvill].

  • Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680
Date:
1668
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    rous mifunderftanding, viz. LAnd it: is, .f| That J have faid:nothing of. this to difcou- rage young Academians from. applying | themfelves to thofe firf# Studies which are in wfe in the Univerfities, Their Statutes we, | Tequite Exercifes in that way of Learning ; ‘iow. | and. fo much knowledge of 7, ‘as inables for thofe Duties, is requifite and fit. Nor rem) 0 I deny, but that thofe Speculations raile, INy § Quicken, and whet the Underftanding, and jf on that account may not be altogether #z- wel A profitable, with ref{pect to the more wfeful | Lnquifitions 3 provided It keep-tt felf trom | being ice, aiery, and addiéted too much to § general Notions. Bue this 1s the dangers Band the greate/t part runupon the Rock. ) The Aazard of which might in great mea- § fure be avoided, if the AZathematicks and wd) Natural Hiftory were mingled, with ¢hefe whine other Studies, which would. indeed be ex- | cellent Preparatives and Difpofitions to. fu- ture Ymprovements. And I add further, iy that the young Philofophers mutt take care of looking on their Syflematick Notions as ine the bounds and perfections. of Kuaowledges } nor make account to. fix eternally wpon | thofe Theortesy as eftablifh'd. and- infallible | Certainties : But confider them in she modeft ) feale of Hypothefes, and asithings they are . ge)