Quote#Books & Reading
From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound…
Quote byMatthew Hopkins · 1620–1647
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Discovery of Witches (1647), Query 3, p. 1.
English (original)
From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors concerning that subject? Answ. From neither of both, but from experience, which though it be meanly esteemed of, yet the surest and safest way to judge by.
— Matthew Hopkins
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