Leibniz Argues

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    Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that “It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.”
    Matthew Tindal (1653–1733)

    A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as t’other of beauty.
    William Congreve (1670–1729)