| OCR Text |
Show 89 the following passage: • . . and Let (since the former ages have been brought forth us see perfected, so rare many and inestimable inventions for the and benefit of man) what cause we have to despair in who are already full fraught & furnished with industrious use our wits labors, yet have the benefit and advantage of our own conceits to mul tiply all those learned lines which they have left behind them. Why and then should we think so basely of ourselves and our times? . . . I think, much less believe, that Nature hath dealth so niggardly with all the world besides, as first to make her staples and store houses of skill and learning, only within Egypt or Greece, and cannot then ... to cut off all trade and traffic with them from all other seek to Nay rather, why should not little England. range herself in the foremost ranks and troops of all Minerva's crescent, and not only reach with a victorious arm at the golden fleece, in despite of all the fiery bulls of Thessaly, but also wrest nations. . and wring the victory, The entire preface, eight pages vinistic attitude toward words of even a man that transcend out of the victors' hands. 38 length, England's potential who felt mere in a pride in his is imbued with this somewhat chau- for greatness. country and In addition to chauvinism. . a But these are the confidence in its future making to stimulate scientific a profit by advertising inquiry and, through his scientific wares, Platt scientific promote England's preeminence among the nations of inquiry, to His wishes the world. were of the calibre of Robert arm at the 38 reasons to be fulfilled in the next Boyle and golden fleece. Platt's hoped century, when Isaac Newton did "reach with a scientists victorious " for dedicating the Jewell House of Art and Nature to The Jewell House of Art and Nature, sig. B i recto-B ii verso. |
