with that which could be measured, counted, observed, and weighed. Ordinary experience, common sense, yielded truth. Metaphysical systems and grand assumptions, such as those found in Plato, yielded only whimsies, fancies, and fog. Plato spun a whole heavenly assembly of Archetypes and Eternal Forms out of his imagination; they had no grounding in either human experience or common sense. Since he had no knowledge of the methods of Bacon or the empiricism of Locke or the “patient thought” of Newton,