[64]. See also Search’s ‘Light of Nature Pursued,’ in which the same sophism is insisted on.

[65]. I have said before that this is a study, not a perfect demonstration. I am no merchant in metaphysics.

[66].

‘Out on the craft—I’d rather be

One of those hinds that round me tread,

With just enough of sense to see

The noon-day sun that’s o’er my head,

Than thus with high-built genius curs’d,

That hath no heart for its foundation,

Be all at once that’s brightest—worst—