doubt-weigher

Updated: May 2, 2025

Is there proof that he ever convinced himself that the research was the dream, which we, who are not Newtons, call it? And that other great sage, inferior only to Newton the calculating doubt-weigher, Descartes had he not believed in the yet nobler hope of the alchemists, believed in some occult nostrum or process by which human life could attain to the age of the Patriarchs?"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Volume 08

Is there proof that he ever convinced himself that the research was the dream, which we, who are not Newtons, call it? And that other great sage, inferior only to Newton the calculating doubt-weigher, Descartes had he not believed in the yet nobler hope of the alchemists, believed in some occult nostrum or process by which human life could attain to the age of the Patriarchs?"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Complete