I find very few of those, who make constant use of logarithms, have attain'd an adequate Notion of them, or to understand the Extent of Use of them: contenting themselves with the Tables of them, as they find them, without daring to question them, or caring to know how to rectify them, should they be found amiss, being, I suppose, under the Apprehension of some great Difficulty therein, &c.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I find very few of those, who make constant use of logarithms, have attain'd an adequate Notion of them, or to understand the Extent of Use of them: contenting themselves with the Tables of them, as they find them, without daring to question them, or caring to know how to rectify them, should they be found amiss, being, I suppose, under the Apprehension of some great Difficulty therein, &c." in the context of "Edmond Halley, as quoted by Benjamin Martin, Logarithmologia: Or the Whole Doctrine of Logarithms, Common and Logistical, in Theory and in Practice (1740) The Preface, p. iii." to mean that wisdom is timeless.