Excerpt from Matho: Or, the Cosmotheoria Puerilis, a Dialogue: In Which the First Principles of Philosophy and Astronomy Are Accommodated to the Capacity of Young Persons, or Such as Have Yet No Tincture of These Sciences, Hence the Principles of Natural Religion Are Deduced

The first great Objection against the following Performance will be, that Matho is made to speak above his Years: But in this Case we should, I think, moderate the Rigour of Criticism a little. The Design of Writing for the Use of young Persons can only be, that they may understand what is said, though they should not be able at first to fay the Things themselves: If they could fay the fame Things there would be no Occasion of Writing for their Use. In the Books, which are first put into our Hands when we go to School, Children are made to talk Latin prettily, not that Children can talk so, but that by Reading those Things they may learn to talk so: And perhaps before a young Gentleman can talk as fine Latin, as Children are supposed to do there, he may be brought to think as justly as Matho is supposed to do here. After all, there is no common Standard in this Cafe, the same Difference may be observed between young Persons of thirteen or fourteen, as between Men of thirty or forty.

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