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Rh therefore confine my, elf to thoe Things which o jutly gain'd Lord Bacon the Eteem of all Europe.

mot ingular, and the bet of all his Pieces, is that which, at this Time, is the mot ueles and the leat read, I mean his Novum Scientiarum Organum. This is the Scaffold with which the new Philoophy was rais'd; and when the Edifice was built, Part of it at leat, the Scaffold was no longer of Service. Lord Bacon was not yet acquainted with Nature, but then he knew, and pointed out, the everal Paths that lead to it. He had depis'd in his younger Years the Thing call'd Philophy [sic] in the Univerities; and did all that lay in his Power to prevent thoe Societies of Men, intituted to improve human Reaon, from depraving it by their Quiddities, their Horrors of the Vacuum, their ubtantial Forms, and all thoe impertinent Terms which not only Ignorance had rendred venerable, but which had been made acred, by their being ridiculouly blended with Religion. Rh