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   from which might be deduced the reasons of all that can   
   be known by man; and it is to them the appellation of   
   philosophers has been more especially accorded. I am not   
   aware of any up to the present who has succeeded in this   
   enterprise."   
      
      
      
   There's a great bit about half-Aristotleans.   
   That Aristotle would disown them, ....   
      
      
      
      
   "I well know, likewise, that many ages may elapse ere all   
   the truths deducible from these principles are evolved out   
   of them, as well because the greater number of such are   
   as remain to be discovered depend on certain particular   
   experiments that never occur by chance, but which require   
   to be investigated with care and expense by men of the   
   highest intelligence, as because it will hardly happen that   
   the same persons who have a sagacity to make a right use   
   of them, will possess also the means of making them, and   
   also because the majority of the best minds have formed so   
   low an estimate of philosophy in general, from the imperfections   
   they have remarked in the kind in vogue up to the present time,   
   that they cannot apply themselves to the search after truth.   
   But, in conclusion if the difference discernible between   
   the principles in question and those of every other system,   
   and the great array of truths deducible from them, lead them   
   to discerning the importance of continuing the search after   
   these truths, and to observe the degree of wisdom, the   
   perfection and felicity of life, to which they are fitted to   
   conduct us, I venture to believe that there will not be found   
   one who is not ready to labour hard in so profitable a study,   
   or at least to favour and aid with all his might those who   
   shall devote themselves to it with success.   
   The height of my wishes is, that posterity may sometime   
   behold the happy issue of it, etc." -- Renee "Renatus" DesCartes   
      
      
      
   Yeah, thanks DesCartes.   
      
      
   "Sagacity", it's called.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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