Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

...that you have undoubtedly noticed, he occasionally deviates clearly from history, which various public journals, especially the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek General German Library*, have rightly reproached him for. If you wish to judge this as leniently as possible, you must still admit that, with regard to these points, he acted precipitately out of a bias toward his own system, without having conducted a precise investigation beforehand. And this is all the less forgivable, the less he lacked the knowledge and resources to discover the errors in his claims.

Neophilus. I remember! But perhaps —

Sophron. For now, you will have just as little desire as I do to dwell on these points any longer. The conclusion that I am content to draw from this for the moment is this: it is too much to ask of thoughtful readers to believe, on his mere word, the strangest things from a man—whatever his

* See Volume 56, Part 2.