You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.
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About Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor.
Themes
- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world