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Some of the landscapes, selected from the oldest cosmographies known, illustrating the various places mentioned in the pages of Shakespeare, are exceedingly curious as well as valuable.
"Cosmographies Introductio a description of the New World." "We shall at last get information about these fables of Columbus." "Columbus will not travel any more." "Columbus has travelled to hell! Now it is Amerigo Vespucci's turn." "He is a Florentine and a fellow-countrymen." "Well, Columbus was a Genoese." "Look you! Rome rules the world, the known and the unknown alike! Urbs est urbs!
If only people freed themselves from their beliefs in all kinds of Ormuzds, Brahmas, Sabbaoths, and their incarnation as Krishnas and Christs, from beliefs in Paradises and Hells, in reincarnations and resurrections, from belief in the interference of the Gods in the external affairs of the universe, and above all, if they freed themselves from belief in the infallibility of all the various Vedas, Bibles, Gospels, Tripitakas, Korans, and the like, and also freed themselves from blind belief in a variety of scientific teachings about infinitely small atoms and molecules and in all the infinitely great and infinitely remote worlds, their movements and origin, as well as from faith in the infallibility of the scientific law to which humanity is at present subjected: the historic law, the economic laws, the law of struggle and survival, and so on if people only freed themselves from this terrible accumulation of futile exercises of our lower capacities of mind and memory called the 'Sciences', and from the innumerable divisions of all sorts of histories, anthropologies, homiletics, bacteriologics, jurisprudences, cosmographies, strategies their name is legion and freed themselves from all this harmful, stupifying ballast the simple law of love, natural to man, accessible to all and solving all questions and perplexities, would of itself become clear and obligatory.
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