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1. But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him, and he asked them whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves.
2. After much debate, they concluded unanimously that I was only relplum scalcath, which is, interpreted literally, lusus naturæ a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavor in vain to disguise their ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
3. I proposed that Homer and Aristotle might appear at the head of all their commentators but these were so numerous that some hundreds were forced to attend in the court and outward rooms of the palace.
4. I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.