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"Horum quos enumeravimus omnium defectuum remedia," says the Bacon of the seventeenth century, "...opera sunt vere basilica; erga quae privati alicujus conatus et industria fere sic se habent ut Mercurius in bivio, qui digito potest in viam intendere, pedem inferre non potest." De Aug. Scient. Lib. II. Ad Regem Suum. A still more remarkable parallelism is to be found in the following passages.
1725, Opera anatomica et chirurgica Andreae Vesalii; with the life of Vesalius. 1728, Altera atrocis rarissimique morbi marchionis de Sancto Albano historia. Auctores de lue Aphrodisiaca, cum tractatu praefixo. 1731, Aretaei Cappadocis nova editio. 1732, Elementa Chemiae. 1734, Observata de argento vivo, ad Reg. Soc. et Acad. Scient.
Scient., cap. In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry; and to be a poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful; in a word, the good which exists in the relation subsisting, first between existence and perception, and secondly between perception and expression.
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