ABSTRACT
Calder, Alexander Scientists leave their discoveries, like foundlings, on the doorstep of society, while the stepparents do not know how to bring them up.
Erasmus, Desiderius And next these come our Philosophers, so much reverenc’d for their Fur’d Gowns and Starcht Beards, that they look upon themselves as the onely Wise Men, and all others as Shadows. And yet how pleasantly do they dote while they frame in their heads innumerable worlds; measure out the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, nay and Heaven it self, as it were with a pair of Compasses. . .
