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 about it. And feeing we cast Enthusiasm out of Divinity it self, we shall hardly sure be persuaded, to admit it into Philosophy. It were perhaps a vain Attempt, to try to cure such Men of their groundless Hopes. It may be they are happier now, as they are: And they would only cry out with the Man in Horace, that their Friends, who had restor'd them to a perfect Sense, had murder'd them. But certainly, if they could be brought to content themselves with moderate Things, to grow rich by Degrees, and not to imagine, they shall gain the Indies out of every Crucible; there might be wonderful Things expected from them. And of this we have good assurance, by what is come abroad from diverse eminent Persons; amongst whom some are Members of the Royal Society. And, if it were not already excellently perform'd by others, I might here speak largely, of the Advantages that accrue to Physick, by the industrious Labours of such Chymists, as have only the discreet, and sober Flame, and not the wild Lightning of the others Brains.

But the last Kind, that I shall name, has been of those, who conscious of human Frailty, and of the Vastness of the Design of an universal Philosophy, have separated, and chosen out for themselves, some particular Subjects, about which to bestow their Diligence. In these, there was less Hazard of Failing; these by one Man's Industry, and constant Indeavours, might probably at last be overcome: And indeed they have generally reap'd the Fruits of their Modesty. I have but one thing to except against some few of them; that they have been sometimes a little too forward to conclude upon Axioms, from what