7. Logic and dispute have much contributed to this.
This is unavoidably to be so, where men's parts and learning
are estimated by their skill in disputing. And if reputation and reward shall attend these conquests, which depend
mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it is no wonder if the wit of man so employed, should perplex,
involve, and subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something to say in opposing or defending
any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who had truth on his side, but the last word in the dispute.