5702. Many others, too, in the world have been regarded as learned, and indeed as more learned than the rest, because they know how to speak from the memory as if from the rational faculty, when nevertheless they knew nothing from themselves but from others. Their inward regions were entirely closed, and there was dark gloom there in place of light (Lars Benzel[stierna] 1and Erik Benzelius).
Footnotes:
1. Lars Benzelstjerna (1680ױ735) and Eric Benzelius (1675ױ743), sons of Archbishop Erik Benzelius.
5702. Many others, also, have been esteemed as learned in the world, and some as more learned than the rest of mankind, because they knew how to speak from the memory as if from the rational, when yet nothing was from themselves but from others. Their interiors were fast shut; and in them there was obscurity and gloom, in place of light (Lars Benzelstjerna and Eric Benzelius).
5702. Plures alii etiam in mundo aestimati sunt pro doctis et quidem pro doctioribus reliquis, quia sciverunt ex memoria loqui sicut a rationali, cum tamen nihil ex se sed ex aliis, interiora eorum prorsus clausa fuerunt, et obscurum ac caliginosum ibi loco lucis (Lars Benzel. et Eric Benzelius) .