| miracle.' And it would appear
| that he hopes at the beginning
| of James's reign--long before
| he suffers disillusionment
| respecting his sovereign's
| interest in the advance of
| 'solid' knowledge--that,
| whether or not he can obtain a
| greater position of state
| beyond that alloted to him by
| Elizabeth, he may be enabled to
| have the modern Hermes, king of
| the realm and head of the
| church, and a literary man of
| no mean fame and importance,
| annote a subject's work on the
| new science. James, when he has
| done this, may well be
| prevailed upon to make
| provision for the operation of
| the new method of knowledge
| either by subsidizing helpers
| or by placing at the author's
| disposal old or new foundations
| of learning (Works, II, 175,
| 180; VI, 90, 172; VIII, 396,
| 401)."
|
| Brandt (op.cit., 54) Iehnt
| diese Interpretation ab: