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Updated: May 16, 2025

Let us see, then, what it is that this man will have, who criticises so severely the learning of other men, who disposes so scornfully, right and left, of the physic and metaphysic of the schools as he finds them, who daffs the learning of the world aside, and bids it pass. Let us see what the learning is that is not 'words, as Hamlet says, complaining of the reading in his book.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded