Thou hast well said ...

Thomas Reid
(1710-1796)

'After the Peripatetic system had reigned above a thousand years in the schools of Europe, almost without a rival, it sunk before that of Des Cartes ... The characteristic of Plato's genius was sublimity, that of Aristotle's subtlety: but Des Cartes far excelled both in perspicuity, and bequeathed this spirit to his successors. The system which is now generally received, with regard to the mind and its operations, derives not only its spirit from Des Cartes, but its fundamental principles; and, after all the improvements made by Malebranche, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, may still be called the Cartesian system.'

— 'An Inquiry,' in Inquiry and Essays, pp. 108-9; Reid's emphasis.

I'm reading Reid for the first time. So far, so good. His manner is that of an (almost Climacusian) existentialist, dismissive of all unliveable metaphysical dicta (ergo dismissive of modernism generally, from Descartes to Locke to Hume). Yes, there are the standard calumnies against mediæval philosophy—e.g. on page six it is 'dust and rubbish'—but Reid makes up for it by saying that post-mediæval philosophy 'can have no other tendency than to shew the acuteness of the sophist, at the expense of disgracing reason and human nature, and making mankind Yahoos' (ibid., p. 10).