and countries, to agree in their thoughts after such a manner, that two continued discourses shall be the same, only mutatis mutandis. Neither will he insist upon the mistake of the title, but let the answerer and his friend produce any book they please, he defies them to shew one single particular, where the judicious reader will affirm he has been obliged for the smallest hint; giving only allowance for the accidental encountering of a single thought, which he knows may sometimes happen; though he has never yet found it in that discourse, nor has heard it objected by any body else.'[1]
The judicious reader will put his own valuation upon this denial.
Conclusion
Considerable interest attaches to the question. What was the real origin of the hostility of the Christ Church men to Bentley? In 1689 Bentley went to Oxford as tutor to James Stillingfleet, son of the Bishop of Worcester, becoming a member of Wadham College.
- ↑ S. i. pp. 20-1.
