“Neither is it reasonable that art should gain the pre-eminence of our great and powerful mother nature. We have so surcharged her with the additional ornaments and graces we have added to the beauty and riches of her own works by our inventions, that we have almost smothered her; yet in other places, where she shines in her own purity
and proper lustre, she marvellously baffles and disgraces all our vain and frivolous attempts”

 “Of Cannibals” 1. #30. (p. 230)

[This quotation translation comes from the Charles Cotton translation]