The First Book of Logical Exercises by Andreas Libavius

1. An object that learned men had mastered even before the amended logic.

to the inner sanctuaries of doctrines, a way quite appropriate for youth, which ought to be zētētikō inquiring/searching. Go on then, ask.

PH. I have received from certain men of not contemptible authority that, from the beginning of Evangelical truth after the falsities of the papists were finished, this school of ours was well and laudably instructed, both in other lectures and in a Dialectical compendium, and this of such a kind that it produced the sharpest logicians here and elsewhere, and men illustrious in every science. Now, however, while they see that the former method has been excluded and another introduced, they marvel greatly and ask whether we regret or are tired of the wisdom of the men of the previous age? I ask you very lovingly, by your humanity, by the benevolence with which you embrace me, and by the sharpness of intellect in which you abound, that you instruct me what is to be thought of this.

OR. I know, disciple, that there are many who are accustomed to interrupt us quite importunately—not to say anything more serious—about that change, boasting that learned men were educated here before we saw the sun. I believe that willingly, and I admit that many became conspicuous in talent and doctrine in the ancestral school, whose praise it belongs to no one to envy, except a man too much in love with himself. Nor do I criticize the former description of teaching.