like to bring much advantage to knowledge,
or any of the uses of human life, being, for the most part,
that of _Notion_ and _Dispute_, which still runs round in a
labyrinth of talk, but advanceth nothing. _These methods_, in
so many centuries, _never brought the world so much practical
beneficial knowledge as could help towards the cure of a cut
finger_." Plus Ultra, p. 7.--Stubbe, with all the malice of a
wit, drew his inference, and turned the point unfairly against
his adversary!

I shall here observe how much some have to answer, in a
literary court of conscience, when they unfairly depreciate
the works of a contemporary; and how idly the literary
historian performs his task, whenever he adopts the character
of a writer from another who is his adversary. This may be
particularly shown in the present instance.

MORHOFF, in his _Polyhistor Litteraria_, censures the _Plus
Ultra_ of Glanvill, conceiving that he had treated with
contempt all ages and nations but his own. The German
bibliographer had never seen the book, but took its character
from Stubbe and Meric Casaubon. The design of the _Plus
Ultra_, however, differs little from the other works of
Glanvill, which Morhoff had seen, and has highly commended.

[271] The political reverie of Campanella was even suspected to cover
very opposite designs to those he seemed to be proposing to
the world. He attempted to turn men's minds from all inquiries
into politics and religion, to mere philosophical ones. He
wished that the passions of mankind might be so directed, as
to spend their force in philosophical discussions, and in
improvements in science. He therefore insisted on a uniformity
on those great subjects which have so long agitated modern
Europe; for the ancients seem to have had no wars merely for
religion, and perhaps none for modes of government. One may
discover an enlightened principle in the project; but the
character of Campanella was a jumble of sense, subtlety, and
wildness. He probably masked his real intentions. He appears
an advocate for the firm establishment of the papal despotism;
yet he aims to give an enlightened principle to regulate the
actions of mankind.