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 and Education; its Policies, Hotilities and Alliances, with the Frame, and Texture of its inward and outward Parts, and particularly thoe that ditinguish it from all other Animals, with their peculiar Aptitudes for the State of Being in which Providence has placed them, it would be one fo the bet Services their Studies could do Mankind, and not a little redound to the Glory of the allwie Contriver."

How far I have anwered the Recommendation, is left to the Judgment of the Reader. It may not, however, be improper to mention that it is impoible to write an exact or perfect Hitory of this Kind; becau a Number of Particulars will ecape our nicet Obervations, and leave Room for future Dicoveries. Upon this Reaon my Lord Bacon does not approvae of the hitorical Method of writing in Philoophy; and hence I ra-