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that is received : and in like manner I doubt not but it 

 will easily appear to men of judgment that in this and 

 other particulars, wheresoever my conception and notion 

 may differ from the ancient, yet I am studious to keep the 

 ancient terms. For hoping well to deliver myself from 

 mistaking by the order and perspicuous expressing of that 

 I do propound, I am otherwise zealous and affectionate to 

 recede as little from antiquity, either in terms or opinions, 

 as may stand with truth and the proficience of knowledge. 

 And herein I cannot a little marvel at the philosopher 

 Aristotle, that did proceed in such a spirit of difference 

 and contradiction towards all antiquity ; undertaking not 

 only to frame new words of science at pleasure, but to 

 confound and extinguish all ancient wisdom ; insomuch 

 as he never nameth or mentioned! an ancient author or 

 opinion, but to confute and reprove ; wherein for glory, 

 and drawing followers and disciples, he took the right 

 course. For certainly there cometh to pass and hath place 

 in human truth, that which was noted and pronounced in 

 the highest truth : Veni in nomine Patris, nee recipitis me ; 

 si quis venerit in nomine suo, eum recipietis. But in this 

 divine aphorism (considering to whom it was applied, 

 namely to Antichrist, the highest deceiver,) we may dis- 

 cern well that the coming in a man's own name, without 

 regard of antiquity or paternity, is no good sign of truth ; 

 although it be joined with the fortune and success of an 

 Eum recipietis. But for this excellent person Aristotle, I 

 will think of him that he learned that humour of his 

 scholar, with whom, it seemeth, he did emulate, the one to 

 conquer all opinions, as the other to conquer all nations. 

 Wherein nevertheless, it may be, he may at some men's 

 hands that are of a bitter disposition get a like title as his 

 scholar did ; 



Felix terrarum praedo, non utile mundo 

 Editus exemplum, &c. ; 

 so 



Felix doctrinae praedo. 



But to me on the other side that do desire, as much 



