[The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grammar of English Grammars CHAPTER II 18/32
What then is the remedy? and to whom must our appeal be made? Knowledge cannot be imposed by power, nor is there any domination in the republic of letters.
The remedy lies solely in that zeal which can provoke to a generous emulation in the cause of literature; and the appeal, which has recourse to the learning of the learned, and to the common sense of all, must be pressed home to conviction, till every false doctrine stand refuted, and every weak pretender exposed or neglected.
Then shall Science honour them that honour her; and all her triumphs be told, all her instructions be delivered, in "sound speech that cannot be condemned." 15.
A generous man is not unwilling to be corrected, and a just one cannot but desire to be set right in all things.
Even over noisy gainsayers, a calm and dignified exhibition of true docrine [sic--KTH], has often more influence than ever openly appears.
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