Compendium of Philosophical History

recommended itself. For in it the author not only recounted the chief sects of philosophers and their fates and defenders, but also applied his study to narrating their principal opinions, so that he might exhibit, as far as could be done, the complete system of each sect, which it is agreed was not done in such a manner by Gerardus Joannes Vossius, nor by Georgius Hornius, nor by Abrahamus Gravius, nor by others who gave effort to writing this history. But after the observations were added, in which all the chapters were confirmed by solid testimonies and explained more fully, there is hope, indeed, that this delineation, or compendium of philosophical history, will henceforth maintain the estimation it has held until now; indeed, that it will rightfully claim for itself a greater dignity. Those things which into philosophy itself