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101 As we saw earlier in this Introduction, it was arguably in the circles of ‘wit’ – in the sense of an essentially pragmatic, humanist, sceptical milieu, that had little time for the laborious empiricism of the new science – that a dismissive attitude towards magical phenomena was pioneered. Meanwhile, scientists like Boyle and those who investigated second sight under his influence remained pusillanimous, largely because of their fear of the dangerous corollaries for religion that such a dismissive attitude towards the supernatural realm might have.
Formerly of Edinburgh, for £10 and the Defraying of all his Charges, to make a Journey into those Parts, and to procure a fit Person, to Translate, for him, the New Testament, Psalter, and Church Catechism, into Irish; who accordingly went, and procured one Mr Kirk for the purpose’. e. 8 Although some details of this account are a little folklorish, and although it conflates with Boyle’s various other projects – including Kirk’s own translation of the psalter, as also the schools for which Kirkwood was responsible – it does not seem entirely implausible.
The title-page is extraneous to the pagination of the MS, and ‘An Essay’ begins on p. 1; thereafter, the MS is made up of four sections, pp. 1–40, 41–100, 101–10 and 112–27 (128–9 is a separate leaf); as this illustrates ‘A Short Treatise’ is an integral part of the volume. The original pagination extends only as far as p. 33 (pp. 32 and 33 are incorrectly paginated). It is perhaps worth noting that two changes that have been made extensively throughout the MS – the alteration of ‘–ie’ to ‘–y’ and the deletion of terminal ‘e’s to words – have been silently ignored.