At any rate, classing the Trinil skull as human, it may be described as tending towards the simian type more than any other known.
It is painful, therefore, to find him in his subsequent Epitome classing Nestorius as a heretic, and speaking of him with the utmost hostility.
Queen Caroline was provoked into classing him and Bolingbroke, as "the two most worthless men of parts in the country."
The extent to which his practice was influenced by this and other a priori conceptions prevents us from classing Sydenham as a pure empiric; but he had the rare merit of never permitting himself to be enslaved even by his own theories.
The freedom of his speculation, and the boldness with which he works out his logical or dialectical system of the universe, altogether prevent us from classing him along with the scholastics properly so called.
