consult

mastery
UK /ˈkɒnsʌlt/ US /ˈkɑnsʌlt/nounverb

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Which meaning of 'consult' best matches its usage in the sentence?

Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries.