Natural and Experimental History

Heraclitus, Empedocles,
Parmenides, Anaxago-
ras, Leucippus, Democri-
tus, Plato, Aristotle,
Theophrastus, Zeno,
and others. All these fashioned
arguments of Worlds, as if
of Fables, according to their own
will, and recited those Fables
of theirs, and published them;
some certainly more neat
and probable, others
more harsh. But in our own centuries,
on account of the institutes of Schools,
and Colleges, minds are more
constrained, nor is there