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Non audiendi funt homines imperiti, qui hurm.no ingenio majorem, vel inutilem, et rebus gerendis adverfum, Tro^v/jLotBetav 
eriminantur. EJl fcilicet quadam Scientiarum cognatio et conciliato ; unde et Eyy.vxhoTrxiS'eixv vocant Grceci; ut in una 
perfedlus did nequeat, qui catenas non attigerit. Morhofi Polyhift. 1. i. c. i. f. i. 
Thofe inexperienced perfons, who make it a charge of accufation againft variety and extenfive learning, that it 
exceeds the compafs of human ability, or is ufelefs, or that it is an impediment to tranfadting bulinefs, deferve no 
attention. For there is between the Sciences a degree of natural and clofe connexion ; from which the Greeks ufe 
the term “ Encyclopaedia j” fo that-no one can be perfect in any one Science, who has not attained to fome know¬ 
ledge of the reft. 
