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84 But when a Man throughly understandeth his Subject, and knoweth what is consistent, or inconsistent with it, he will write upon it with more or less Applause, according to the Scope and Compass of his Thoughts: Some are bound up in narrow Schemes of Things, while Men of Genius and freer Spirits look abroad into Nature, and discover a thousand beautiful Relations that lye concealed to those, who trade only in dry Schemes and Systems. Our Thoughts must be conformable to the Matter and Subject that lye before us, but we have full Liberty to range, provided we can command our Rh