Chapter 31 No.31

Philosophy, as it before us lies,

Seems to have borrow'd some ungrateful taste

Of doubts, impertinence, and niceties,

From every age through which it pass'd,

But always with a stronger relish of the last.

This beauteous queen, by Heaven design'd

To be the great original

For man to dress and polish his uncourtly mind,

In what