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But for myself, I shall never be persuaded, that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lanthorn of Aristotle's brains: or that it was ever said unto him, as unto Esdras, "Accendam in corde tuo Lucernam intellectus"; that God hath given invention but to the heathen, and that they only invaded nature, and found the strength and bottom thereof; the same nature having consumed all her store, and left nothing of price to after-ages.
My eyes, following an unconscious glance from his, fell upon a new and hitherto unnoticed object a little table, now startlingly obvious, in a corner of the all but unfurnished room, bearing a tray with half full decanter, syphon and glass. "You've got all I want here," said I. "No. That's mere stimulant. Sapit lucernam. It has a horrible flavour of midnight oil.
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