Sadducismus triumphatus Quotes

“The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors”
― Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus triumphatus: or, a full and plain evidence, concerning witches and apparitions. In two parts. ... By Joseph Glanvil, ... The fourth edition, with additions.