Reflections upon learning, wherein is shewn the insufficiency thereof, in its several particulars in order to evince the usefulness and necessity, of revelation / [Thomas Baker].

  • Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740.
Date:
1700
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Credit: Reflections upon learning, wherein is shewn the insufficiency thereof, in its several particulars in order to evince the usefulness and necessity, of revelation / [Thomas Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir W. Temple, 42d. Mr. Wote - ton, baveturnd their Pens the o- © ther way, and have been fo much taken up with deferibing the Beau- ties and Excellencies of Learning as to have le{s occafion to difcover its Faults ; tho it was {carce poffible, whilft they crofs’d one another's Opi- nion, either to commend Ancient Learning, without entring into the Defects of the Modera, or to prefer the Moderns, without cen{uring the — Ancients ; {0 that by confequence tho’ not profeffedly, they bave faln into this Coniroverfie. I have, as far as poffible, avoided faying any thing that has becn obferved by them already, (the perbaps this may be thought my fault, and 1 may thereby bave faid worle things ef my own) and if in any other things Lhave contradG- ed thew, Ibave done it in {o tender blame, were they yet both Living. I have trigted all Men with Decency — | and