The History of the Heavens

therefore the true aim of the use of the Pen; where this is observed, the Honor of God must necessarily also be promoted. But although few are found who use their Pen for this true aim, there are nevertheless those who spare neither labor nor oil original: "Arbeidt noch Olie spaeren," an idiomatic expression similar to "burning the midnight oil," signifying intense study and dedication to reach this end. Witnesses thereof are so many excellent men who have spent their time and their strength, and still spend them, to relieve the public of so many idle and false ideas as are, as it were, implanted through Custom, through tradition, and through ingrained prejudices; and to make the knowledge of the True and the Useful easy for young people, removing from them the burden of so many entanglements original: "omwindsels," referring to unnecessary complexities or "red tape" of the mind and the circuit of so many detours, which are capable of striking terror into them, and which, being merely imaginary, produce nothing other than a habit of reasoning about things that are neither essential, nor beneficial, nor have the Truth as their goal; and by