" 'Tis not a melancholy Utinam [Latin for 'would that!'] of my own, but the desires of better heads, that there were a general Synod; not to unite the incompatible difference of religion, but for the benefit of learning, to reduce it as it lay at first, in a few and solid authors; and to condemn to the fire those swarms and millions of Rhapsodies, begotten only to distract and abuse the weaker judgments of Scholars, and to maintain the trade and mystery of Typographers."
- Sir Thomas Browne, 1625, Religio Medici, Book I, XXIV.
Never ever seen these sentences ever quoted before in a blog. Always useful to cite the precise section and paragraph of its origin in R.M.
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