". . . he who professedly delivers the elements of a science is more obliged to method and system, and tied down to more rigorous laws, than a mere essay writer. It may, therefore, be pardoned if this rude Essay doth, by insensible transitions, draw the reader into remote inquiries and speculations, that were not, perhaps, thought of either by him or by the author at first setting out."
George Berkeley, Siris, No. 297. Works, edited by A.C. Frazer. Oxford 1901, Vol. III, p. 267. Used by Christopher Middleton as an epigraph to Jackdaw Jiving: Selected Essays on Poetry & Translation, Carcanet, 1998.
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