Secularisation and Catholic Education in Scotland

Abstract

Another useful secret of invincible authors is to intersperse contempt of pedantry and of the clergy. These damned pendants have got a trick of reading many authors, observing the sentiments of the greatest men in all ages; and acquire an impertinent facility of discerning nonsense in the writings of your easy genteel authors, who are above perplexing themselves with the sourness and intricacies of thought. (Hutcheson 1750)