ABSTRACT

Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1643) 20 No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound

philosopher. S.T.Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)

21 To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, 30 (1762)

22 The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.