The Discovery of a World in the Moone

Adam, perceiving itself altogether emptied of any good, does now catch after every new thing, conceiving that possibly it may find satisfaction among some of its fellow creatures. But our enemy, the devil (who still strives to pervert our gifts and beat us with our own weapons), has so contrived it that any truth does now seem distasteful for that very reason for which error is entertained: Novelty. For let some upstart heresy be set afloat, and presently there are some who, out of a curious humor—and others, as if they watched an occasion of singularity—will take it up as canonical and make it part of their creed and profession. Whereas solitary truth cannot anywhere find so ready entertainment; but the same novelty which is esteemed the commendation of error and makes that acceptable, is counted the fault of