’Tis a Great Folly not to Distinguish betwixt things Extremely Differing
in their Qualities and Nature; ’tis no wonder to find one Simplicity of
this Kind follow’d with more; for Weak Men will be still applying the
last Rule to the next Case, for want of Reasoning and Connecting upon the
_whole_. ’Tis an Odd thing now, that a _Mountebank_ should get Reputation
by the same Error that makes an _Idiot_ yet more Ridiculous; that is to
say, by Prescribing the same Remedy to all Diseases. There was Just such
another Innocent as this, in my Father’s Family: He did the Course Work
in the Kitchen, and was bid at his first Coming to take off the _Range_,
and let down the _Cynders_ before he went to Bed. The poor Silly Wretch
laid Hands of the Irons, when they were next to _Red Hot_ yet, and they
stuck to his Fingers. _A Vengeance on ye_, says he, _Y’are as warm as
Wool_; and so shook ’em off again. Now this _Innocent_, I dare Answer for
him, had never read _Camerarius_, so that he did not Burn his Fingers by
that Copy.