I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us.

This claim, espoused by scientific naturalists, is called scientism, the view that science is the paradigm of truth and rationality. There are two forms of scientism: strong and weak. Strong scientism […]

(We 'nostrify' a certain opinion, accept it etc.) This means that the identity of the subject becomes enlarged.

Emongſt the reſt a wicked maladie / Raign’d emongſt men, that manie did to die,[…]