Chapter 45

           

           Itisthehumorofmanyheadstoextolthedaysoftheirforefathers,anddeclaimagainstthewickednessoftimespresent.Whichnotwithstandingtheycannothandsomelydo,withouttheborrowedhelpandsatireoftimespast;condemningthevicesoftheirowntimes,bytheexpressionsofvicesintimeswhichtheycommend,whichcannotbutarguethecommunityofviceinboth.Horace,therefore,Juvenal,andPersius,werenoprophets,althoughtheirlinesdidseemtoindigitateandpointatourtimes.SIRTHOMASBROWNE:PseudodoxiaEpidemica.

           ThatoppositiontotheNewFeverHospitalwhichLydgatehadsketchedtoDorotheawas,likeotheroppositions,tobeviewedinmanydifferentlights.Heregardeditasamixtureofjealousyanddunderheadedprejudice.Mr.Bulstrodesawinitnotonlymedicaljealousybutadeterminationtothwarthimself,promptedmainlybyahatredofthatvitalreligionofwhichhehadstriventobeaneffectuallayrepresentativeahatredwhichcertainlyfoundpretextsapartfromreligionsuchaswereonlytooeasytofindintheentanglementsofhumanaction.Thesemightbecalledtheministerialviews.Butoppositionshavetheillimitablerangeofobjectionsatcommand,whichneedneverstopshortattheboundaryofknowledge,butcandrawforeveronthevastsofignorance.

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