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2 as it was not much out of my way: So I had some Friends there, whom both Custom and Affection did oblige me to salute. Amongst these was Charles Langius (to say nothing but what is truth) the very best and most Learned Man of all the Belgians, I was receiv'd by him at his own House; where he sweetned my entertainment, not only by the expresses of a civil and friendly respect; but also by such kind of discourses; as I shall doubtless find advantageous to me, during the remainders of my life. This, this I say was the Man, who by the dissipation of some Mists of Vulgar Opinions, was the First that open'd my Eyes; and shew'd me the way, whereby without intricacy I might arrive at those desireable places, which Lucretius calls Rh