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rapport with the potential of the print technology, is an easily
recognizable and understandable attitude. Bishop Sprat in his
History of the Royal Society (1667) is prepared to dispense,
not only with decorum and levels of style, but with poetry itself.
Myths and fables were the fanciful rhetoric of the childhood of
the race:
the first masters of knowledge among them were as well
Poets, as Philosophers; for Orpheus, Linus, Musaeus and
Homer, first softened men’s natural rudeness, and by the
charms of their Numbers, allur’d them to be instructed by
the severer doctrines of Solon, Thales and Pythagoras.
This was a course that was useful at first, when men were
to be delightfully deceiv’d to their own good. But perhaps
it left some ill influence, on the whole Philosophy of their
Successors; and gave the Grecians occasion ever after of