Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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153That the Moon may be a World. Truth, which they themſelves were not the
firſt
Inventors of.
So that I may juſtly expect
to
be accuſed of a Pragmatical Ignorance, and
bold
Oſtentation;
eſpecially ſince for this O-
pinion
, Xenophanes, a Man whoſe Authority
was
able to add ſome Credit to his Aſſertion,
could
not eſcape the like Cenſure from others.
For Natales Comes ſpeaking of that Philoſo-
pher
, and this his Opinion, ſaith thus, Nonnulli
11Mytholog.
lib
. 3. c. 17
ne nihil ſciſſe videantur, aliqua nova monſtr a in
Philoſophiam
introducunt, ut alicujus rei inven-
tores
fuiſſe apparent.
‘Some there are, who leſt
they might ſeem to know nothing, will bring
up monſtrous abſurdities in Philoſophy, that
ſo afterward they may be famed for the In-
vention of ſomewhat.
The ſame Author
doth
alſo in another place accuſe Anaxagoras
of
Folly for the ſame Opinion.
Eſt enim non
22Lib. 7. c. 1 ignobilis gradus ſtultitiæ, vel ſineſcias quid dicas,
tamen
velle de rebus propoſitis hanc vell illam par-
tem
ſtabilire.
’Tis none of the worſt kinds of
Folly
, boldly to affirm one ſide or other when
a
Man knows not what to ſay.

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