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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I anſwer: As we ſhould not be ſo fondly
conceited
of our ſelves, and the extraordina-
ry
Abilities of theſe preſent Ages, as to think
every
thing that is antient to be abſolute:
Or, as if it muſt needs be with Opinions, as
it
is with Clothes, where the neweſt is for
the
moſt part beſt.
So neither ſhould we be ſo
ſuperſtitiouſly
devoted to Antiquity, as to
take
up every thing for Canonical, which
drops
from the pen of aFather, or was appro-
ved
by the conſent of the Antients.
’Tis an
excellent
ſaying, Δ{εἶ} ἐλευ θέριον ἐιν{αι} τũ 11Alcinous μη Τ μέλλοτα φιλοσοφ{εἶ}ν It behoves every
one
in the ſearch of Truth, always to preſerve
aPhiloſophical
liberty:
Not to be ſo

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