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VICO

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/new_science.html

"But as the popular states became corrupt, so also did the philosophies. They descended to skepticism. Learned fools fell to calumniating the truth. Thence arose a false eloquence, ready to uphold either of the opposed sides of a case indifferently. "

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/