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Quotation from The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
“the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter”
The Advancement of Learning, Book I, IV.3 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500)
Bacon's name for 'delicate learning', the humanist preference for elegant phrase over weighty argument.
Citation: "the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter" — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book I, IV.3 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500). (id bacon-advancement-of-learning-q3)
