Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Two Tracts on the Founding and Maintaining of Parochial Libraries in Scotland
Of Mankind to be desirous of Knowledge, as it is for them to be rational Creatures, for we see no other end or use for our Reason, but to seek out and search for the Knowledge of all these things of which we are Ig norant. For this sore travel hath God given to the sons of men, to be exercised therewith. That be ing born Naked, Indigent and Ignorant, we should be forced to enquire by the help of Rea son, into the Nature and Know.
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