The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of … - Joseph Glanvill

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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of Passions, that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to Verity.

Joseph Glanvill

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Joseph Glanvill FRS (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman.

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The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Maker's.

The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith; and Faith is an Act of Reason.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of Passions, that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to Verity. - Joseph Glanvill

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