'If there might be added the right helps of true art and learning, (which helps, I must plainly confess, this age of the world, carrying the name of a learned age, doth neither much know nor generally regard,) there would undoubtedly be almost as much difference in maturity of judgment between men therewith inured, and that which men now are, as between men that are now, and innocents.' I do not pretend to have found or discovered here any of those 'right helps of art,' this great man of deep thought mentions:
"Jakituriaren eta arrazoitzeko artearen egiazko laguntzak ezarriko bagenitu, hauetaz gutxi jakin eta apenas arduratzen garelarik argitsutzat daukagun mende honetan, juzgamenaren irmotasunari dagokionean honetaz baliatuko liratekeen gizakien eta egungo gizakien artean ezberdintasuna hain handia litzateke, nola den gaur egungo gizakien eta ergelen artean dagoen aldea". Ez dut esan gura hain pentsamendu sakoneko gizon horrek aipatzen dituen "arrazoitzeko artearen egiazko laguntza" horietarikoren bat nik aurkitu edo deskubritu dudanik, baina honako hau bai badela bistakoa: