This Diſcourſe happened at Table when Dinner was juſt ended; and there were preſent Mr. Allworthy, Mr. Thwackum, and a third Gentleman who now entered the Debate, and whom, before we proceed any farther, we ſhall briefly introduce to our Reader’s Acquaintance.
CHAP. III.
The Character of Mr. Square the Philoſopher, and of Mr. Thwackum the Divine; with a Diſpute concerning
The Name of this Gentleman who had then reſided ſome time at Mr. Allworthy’s Houſe, was Mr. Square. His natural Parts were not of the firſt Rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned Education. He was deeply read in the Antients, and a profeſt Maſter of all the works of Plato and Aristotle. Upon which great Models he had principally form’d himſelf, ſometimes according with the Opinion of the one, and ſometimes with that of the other. In Morals he was a profeſt Platoniſt, and in Religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian.
But
