Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              thing, unleſſe from their never having known any thing; for if
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              one hath but once onely experienced the perfect knowledg of one
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              onely thing, and but truly taſted what it is to know, he ſhall
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              ceive that of infinite other concluſions, he underſtands not ſo much
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              as one.</s>
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              The having a
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              perfect knowledg
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              of nothing, maketh
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              ſome believe they
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              underſtand all
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              things.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Your diſcourſe is very concluding; in confirmation of
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              which we have the example of thoſe who underſtand, or have
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              known ſome thing, which the more knowing they are, the more
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              they know, and freely confeſſe that they know little; nay, the
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              wiſeſt man in all
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              Greece,
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              and for ſuch pronounced by the Oracle,
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              openly profeſſed to know that he knew nothing.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>It muſt be granted therefore, either that
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              Socrates
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              or
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              that the
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              Oracle
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              it ſelf was a lyar,
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              that declaring him to be moſt
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              wiſe, and he confeſſing that he knew himſelf to be moſt
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              norant.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Neither one nor the other doth follow, for that both
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              the aſſertions may be true. </s>
              <s>The
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              Oracle
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              adjudged
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              Socrates
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              the
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              ſeſt of all men, whoſe knowledg is limited;
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              Socrates
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              ledgeth that he knew nothing in relation to abſolute wiſdome,
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              which is infinite; and becauſe of infinite, much is the ſame part,
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              as is little, and as is nothing (for to arrive
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              to the infinite
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              number, it is all one to accumulate thouſands, tens, or ciphers,)
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              therefore
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              Socrates
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              well perceived his wiſdom to be nothing, in
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              compariſon of the infinite knowledg which he wanted. </s>
              <s>But yet,
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              becauſe there is ſome knowledg found amongſt men, and this
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              not equally ſhared to all,
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              Socrates
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              might have a greater ſhare
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              thereof than others, and therefore verified the anſwer of the
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              Oracle.
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              <s>
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              The anſwer of
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              the Oracle true in
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              judging
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              Socrates
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              the wiſeft of his
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              time.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I think I very well underſtand this particular amongſt
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              men,
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              Simplicius
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              there is a power of operating, but not equally
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              diſpenſed to all; and it is without queſtion, that the power of an
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              Emperor is far greater than that of a private perſon; but, both
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              this and that are nothing in compariſon of the Divine
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              tence. </s>
              <s>Amongſt men, there are ſome that better underſtand
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              Agriculture than many others; but the knowledg of planting a
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              Vine in a trench, what hath it to do with the knowledg of
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              king it to ſprout forth, to attract nouriſhment, to ſelect this good
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              part from that other, for to make thereof leaves, another to make
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              ſprouts, another to make grapes, another to make raiſins,
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              ther to make the huskes of them, which are the works of moſt
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              wiſe Nature? </s>
              <s>This is one only particular act of the innumerable,
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              which Nature doth, and in it alone is diſcovered an infinite
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              dom, ſo that Divine Wiſdom may be concluded to be infinitely
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              infinite.</s>
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              Divine Wiſdom
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              infinitely infinise.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Take hereof another example. </s>
              <s>Do we not ſay that the </s>
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