 Johnson wrote in his "Autobiography", “All this was like a flood of day to his low state of mind”, and that “he found himself like one at once emerging out of the glimmer of twilight into the full sunshine of open day".Though he finished his Latin Ramist thesis, he now considered what he had learned at Yale “nothing but the scholastic cobwebs of a few little English and Dutch systems that would hardly now be taken up in the street.”

He used what he learned in the next two years to write in English a "Revised Encyclopedia of Philosophy "(1716).It was prefixed by a hierarchical Table or map of the intellectual world outlining the sum of all knowledge.