Newton was privy to the knowledge that his brethren the professional doctors of philosophy and theology made their careers by taking simple knowledge and corrupting it into incomprehensibility. Newton wrote that the primitive religion was
easily understood by the meanest people, and was handed down simplicity until men skilled in the learning of heathens Cabbalists and Schoolmen corrupted it with metaphysics, straining the scriptures from a moral to a metaphysical sense and thereby making it unintelligible.
Newton’s disciples the physicists the current representatives of the most learned doctors have been practicing the same corruption under the guise of physics.
Right after Newton’s quote the author added:
p.s. One thing that is of interest. One of the things that kept the Western Scholars from deciphering the Egyptian language is the belief that the figures were symbols with mystical definitions. However, as time progressed by the late 19th century this was seen to be false by German Scholars who completely decoded the temple script.
I don’t know why this is mentioned after Newton’s condemnation of professional doctors as the anti-science but in a way it makes sense.
The legal hieroglyphyics produced by academic physicists had been marketed as “symbols with physical referents,” however, as time progressed by the late 21st century this was seen to be false by historians who realized that “physical” simply meant as a pun and they were able to decipher completely the academic physics hieroglyphics by removing puns and physics promptly disappeared leaving behind nothing but the mathematical framework.
Physics turned out to be puns and labels added to mathematical framework by doctors of physics!
Historians were amazed that so much academic physics careers have been made in the 20th and early 21st century by “men skilled in the learning of Cabbalists and Schoolmen,” that is, by the Newtonian doctors of philosophy calling themselves physicists just by keeping busy writing commentary on each other’s puns.
The more scholasticism changes the more it stays the same.
