He has not merely, like Burton, his learning ever present, but a practical and busy art; religious as he is, he does not become absorbed in religion like Crashaw or Herbert or Vaughan; his blood is cooler, and his MBT Shoes brain less trammelled with occult things than Donne's. And the result is the Religio, a confession of intelligent orthodoxy and logical MBT supernaturalism couched in some of the most exquisite English ever written.
The great medley of the Pseudodoxia is more puzzling to modern ideas. Here Browne first discusses the general subject of delusion in a fashion singularly different from, though y perhaps not less philosophical than, that which
Errors wou^ suggest vibram fivefingers itself to most people. Now and then he takes the errors one by one, but the fact is that "errors" is not quite the right word. Pseudodoxy, as opposed to orthodoxy, consists in the assumption, as positive truths, of things unproved, in the explanation of undoubted phenomena by wrong causes, at least as much as in the belief in things certainly false. Very often he will not go beyond the position that vibram five fingers the popular creed may be, with more reason, denied or affirmed; sometimes he has possible explainings away of difficult facts; and it will readily be anticipated that he very often advances hypotheses more difficult for modern science MBT Shoes to admit than the facts he wishes to explain. He is himself, though profoundly sceptical, by no means obstinately incredulous; and if he cannot believe the magical qualities of gems, and must admit that "it hath much deceived the hopes of good fellows what is commonly expected of bitter almonds," he declares "that an MBT unsavoury odour is gentilitious or natural unto the Jews, we cannot well conceived." Yet he is by no means prone, as his great editor and fellow-collegian was, to deny things simply because they are strange; and the result is that the Pseudodoxia, written in a delightful style, ranging through a vast multitude of sometimes absurd but almost always interesting legends, anecdotes, beliefs, and lighted throughout with Browne's own special Easy Tone candles—his mild intelligence and his unaggressive irony—is one of the most charming books existing or conceivable.
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A confession of intelligent orthodoxy