Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvillwas an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted...
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time rivers light
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.
discouraging assurance raises
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
understanding faculty wells
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
inquiry matter belief
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.