Every history which is not contemporaneous, as the books of the Sibyls and Trismegistus,[226] and so many others which have been believed by the world, are false, and found to be false in the course of time. It is not so with contemporaneous writers.
Endroit: SECTION IX · ¶1877 Licence: Public domain · Source Le texte est donné tel que dans l'édition, sans retouche.