To Samuel Furly Date: LONDON, February 18, 1756. DEAR SAMMY, You are a very complaisant person. I know in my little circle of acquaintance more than twenty who have all the natural qualifications mentioned in the Address to the Clergy, and several others who have a the acquired ones, either by education or by grace; and I would engage to take any person of fourteen years of age who has good natural abilities and to teach him in seven years everything which is there required to a good degree of perfection. Ex pede Herculem. You may easily see what Latin I write by one of the Dissertations in Jobum, By his father. See note to letter of Oct. 15, 1735. or even by the short conversation with Count Zinzendorf which is printed in the Journal, See Journal, ii. 488-90. I do not know that I have any theme or declamation left. But why do you not talk Latin when you are with me Do this, and you will see the excellence of Terence's language; whereas Tully would make you talk like a mere stiff pedant. Randal's Geographical Grammar is far the best compendium of geography which I have seen; and you need nothing more on that subject, adding only the terrestrial globe.

If you are master of Hutcheson's Francis Hutcheson (1694-1764), Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow x729-46. His System of Moral Philosophy was published by his son in 1755. See Journal, v. 492; and letter of March 14. Metaphysicks and Clerc's Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736), professor in Amsterdam. Ontologia, I advise you to look no farther that way; unless you would add Malebranche's Search after Truth Nicolas Malebranche (1658-1715). His De la Recherche de la Vrit, 1674, regards the intervention of God as necessary to bridge the gun between the human soul and body. It is mentioned in the Address among books to be read. or the Bishop of Cork's two books In December of this year Wesley began reading with his preachers the Bishop of Cork's Procedure (or Progress), Extent and Limits of Human Understanding, which he thought superior to Locke's treatise (see Journal, iv. 192; and for his earlier references, the letters of Oct. 3, 1730, and Feb. 13, 1731). Possibly the other book recommended was Dr. Browne's Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, 1733. again. The main point is, with all and above all, study the Greek and Hebrew Bible, and the love of Christ. I am Yours affectionately.