xxf. Terre-Filis. 9 I am glad that, ?n �ome eol!ege? in oxlgrd, thi, reformation o? learning is alreaqy begun l where, I hmr, it is ufual For the tutors, in.their le?res-u on man? points oF phiioFophy, to tell their pup& j? in the -fchools, they mu? hold ?nch a fide of the argument; but thai the ottier fide is demonSably the right fide. - 1[ tNs hon? 'fpirit oF reformation ?ould pre- vail, we might cx? ro f? 'plain truth and fin?re knowledge flouri? in our uni?,erfities, infi?d of f? Iraming and di!?uis'd ignormce. But, fay, the rigid difciplinarian, fl?alI we have no ?ted rule tb go by ? no fix'd method o? deciding our difputes ? What endle? animofities and qua?eN ?lI arit? amongtt ignorant and obfiinate men, i? we ? all k? to our own licentious im?inatio? and anre?rain'? judgments? To 'this I anfw? that if we have any dated rule 0r fixed method off deciding difputes, b?des the force of truth and conviSion, we had as g?d not ?ifpute at all? if ?r?otk i? to ? our go[pel, let us ?en turn to the words of ?otle, and not rend the ?ripatetiek eh?ch with ne?lefi fchifms and di- vifions, , But if an unigertl l?erty were altow'd to fleNte u?n all fubjeas with ?ce?om and im?rtifli?, I tould pot be in any gr=t pain for the coafequence. It is, indeed. pretended, that ?ri?vtle's authority was fir? ?f all e?abh?'d, to pre?'ent thole quarr!ls and =kirmi?es which us'd frequently to happen m the univerfiries ?twecn different parties of.fcholars, ?ho m?ntain'd ,di?t o?nions, and fcorn'd to yield eith= of them to the or'her; in which eat they utd to adjoin from the f?hoMs into rome neighMuting field, ?n8 ?h=e fini? th:-ir ?ebate? with more convincing argum:nts, and more?an- fwerable ?l?g?mt. In
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