Sunday, January 24, 2021
Philosophers
Walter Savage Landor, "Lucullus and Caesar," Imaginary Conversations, Vol. II (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1901), pp. 9-29 (at 11-12, Lucullus speaking; I corrected imposotrs to impostors):
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But the philosophers are wrong, as they generally are, even in the commonest things; because they seldom look beyond their own tenets, unless through captiousness, and because they argue more than they meditate, and display more than they examine. Archimedes and Euclid are, in my opinion, after our Epicurus, the worthiest of the name, having kept apart to the demonstrable, the practical, and the useful. Many of the rest are good writers and good disputants; but unfaithful suitors of simple science, boasters of their acquaintance with gods and goddesses, plagiarists and impostors.
