Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths Together with the Religio Medici

"Our tender Enquiries taking up learning at large, and together with true and assured notions, receiving many, wherein our reviewing judgments do find no satisfaction. And therefore in this Encyclopaedie and round of Knowledge, we must observe two circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swing and rapt of the one, we may maintain a natural and proper course, in the slow and sober wheel of the other. And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge; impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)