Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductive reasoning to sort out life's great questions.
Take something like Millionaire, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which is not really reality but it's the same sortof thing, you can be made to look a complete and utter prat within two questions on Millionaire, I know, because it's happened to me.