[Footnote 124: Such as Galen, Pliny, Aristotle, &c. On this
subject Wotton (Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning,
p. 85 - 95) argues, with solid sense, against the lively
exotic fancies of Sir William Temple. The contempt of the
Greeks for Barbaric science would scarcely admit the Indian
or Aethiopic books into the library of Alexandria; nor is it
proved that philosophy has sustained any real loss from
their exclusion.]