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A65356	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	Academiarum examen, or, The examination of academies wherein is discussed and examined the matter, method and customes of academick and scholastick learning, and the insufficiency thereof discovered and laid open : as also some expedients proposed for the reforming of schools, and the perfecting and promoting of all kind of science ... / by Jo. Webster.	1654		.xml	application/xml	44270	1149	51	Yet besides what I have formerly spoken of Tongues in relation to the interpretation of the Scripture , thus much also is evident , that if a man had the perfect knowledge of many , nay all languages , that he could give unto man , beast , bird , fish , plant , mineral , or any other numerical creature or thing , their distinct and proper names in twenty several Idioms , or Dialects , yet knows he no more thereby , than he that can onely name them in his mother tongue , for the intellect receives no other nor further notion thereby , for the senses receive but one numerical species or Ideal-shape from every individual thing , though by institution and imposition , twenty , or one hundred names be given unto it , according to the Idiome of several nations . 5. This Philosophy is meerly verbal , speculative , abstractive , formal and notional , fit to fill the brains with monstrous and airy Chymaeras , speculative , and fruitless conceits , but not to replenish the intellect with sound knowledge , and demonstrative verity , nor to lead man practically to dive into the internal center of natures abstruse , and occult operations : But is only conversant about the shell , and husk , handling the accidental , external and recollacious qualities of things , confusedly , and continually tumbling over obscure , ambiguous , general and equivocal terms , which are onely fit to captivate young Sciolists , and raw wits , but not to satisfy a discreet and wary understanding , that expects Apodictical , and experimental manuduction into the more interiour clossets of nature .	cache/A65356.xml	txt/A65356.txt
