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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Or, System of Universal Knowledge; On a Methodical Plan; Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science
The same expedient is, perhaps, still more necessary in tracing the progress of human opinions. The history of thoughts is best understood and remembered in connection with the history of the thinkers. Those airy nothings' can hardly become fixed ob jects in the memory, but by giving them a local habitation and a name and a necessary commentary on the writings or doc trines of a philosopher, is a knowledge of the character and environment of the man.
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