Natural and Experimental History

and instilled into the youth; so that now (as Cicero mocked concerning Caesar's year) the star of the Lyre rises by edict, and authority is taken for truth, not truth for authority. Which kind of institution and discipline is excellent for the present use, but the same spells the exile of better things. We both suffer and imitate, in truth, the sin of our first parents. They wished to be like God, their descendants even more so. For