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Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning

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  • In Ancients and Moderns

    …Sir William Temple, in his Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning attacking the members of the Royal Society, rejected the doctrine of progress and supported the virtuosity and excellence of ancient learning. William Wottonresponded to Temple’s charges in his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1694). He praised the Moderns…

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