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exercising their wit, and their imagination, about the
works of Nature, more than was consistent with a sincere
Inquiry into them. (90)
By a kind of metamorphosis it follows from Sprat’s
position (which tries to follow Bacon) that the modern scientist
or philosopher is the true poet. And in order to purge the dross
of the past from the present, Sprat sees the Royal Society as
having “endeavour’d to separate the knowledge of Nature from
the colors of Rhetorick, the devices of Fancy, or the delightful
deceit of Fables.”
The procedure of separation and segmentation as the
very technique of applied knowledge comes out clearly wherever
a job of reducing antiquity arises. The members of the Royal
Society being privy to this technique, repudiate “this vicious