Silence After the Clamors

And in truth, it is not possible that a dye the 'Fucus' was a plant used for rouge or false color should be found more similar to a native color, or a vice more decent than virtue, or popular rumors more truthful than the testimony of one's own eyes. If that were to happen, one would have to trust neither reason nor healthy senses, but, as with the Pyrrhonists and the new Academics, everything would have to be turned into doubt. It seems to me that those who published those two writings, the Fama and the Confessio, have done enough for their purpose, and are not worthy of any censorial stroke (which they do not even acknowledge, but send back to their authors). But because the customs of men and this age allow it,